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Going through the speaker list at thenexthope, and seeing how many notes I have written in tasque made me realize I consume way more than I can follow up on. Prioritization aside, just getting this down for posterity is important, and what better way than to public random notes on the internet? (Seriously, I need a better scheme than this, preferrable one that following the antihacking idea I posted earlier. This post will probably be split into a few ones later, but its better to push early and often, before this stuff slips away.
FossCon
Great convention, organized by JonathanD
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Lots of talks involved open education, not just in using FOSS technologies for IT infrastructure, but to take advantage of real world excercises, contributing to code/documentation/art/testing in projects that people will actually use.
- hkcmp
- freebay / nomoola
- collectivefoundation
- aaaarg.org
- publiccollectors
- collectivefoundation
- thepublicschool.org
- learningsite.info
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From the talk on community management given by kloeri
- define what you want from the community early on
- changing direction is ok as long as everyone is moving in the same direction
- leave trivial bugs as low hanging fruit
- be open about exploitation of users to turn them into contributors
- take "bad" patches to illustrate ease of contribution
- attribute contributions even if the contributor did not do any of the real work
- upstream gets contributors <> contributors get credit and learning
- users can socially engineer the developers to do work for them! (just pose the question as an interesting problem)
- for another good example, see BFS from Con Kovilas
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POSSE
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productively lost is a good thing, stumbling around means you have a greater learning potential
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RiT has a good FOSS movement going on, check out the foss@rit projects page!
- Professor Stephen rocks, and so does the OLPC
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Openhatch - job site++ for FOSSheads
- Would be cool to add mission badges, integration with statusnet
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Civx.net - git history of laws!
- Both built on pygears < turbogears2 < moksha
Music
Music to check out - stuff that sounds good at first glance but I should consider putting into my regular rotation / radio show.
- fabriclive 50
- faded paper figures
- clermont
- frog eyes
- slothbeat kids
- icarus himself
- hyperbubble
- the humms might have a song that flaming lips took the chord progression for 'I dont know where the sunbeams end and the starlight begins...'
Projects
Its important to document work - really, really important. Here is a crappy start.
- Get pics from Prof. Jose
- Fix arduinome
- Build Problem Light (have a good chassis...)