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opensolaris developer conference

Thursday, Apr 3. 2008  –  Category: OpenSolaris

there are a ton of conferences coming up, and if you’re involved in the opensolaris community at all, you should definitely try to get out to the opensolaris developer conference (or osdevcon for short) in prague in june.

even better – why don’t you submit a paper? the call for papers ends april 20th, so get your submission in!

DemoCampSanFrancisco

Thursday, Apr 3. 2008  –  Category: OpenSource, Songbird

I was just talking to a couple of fellow Birders who are going to DemoCampVictoria tonight, which got me wondering….

… why isn’t there a DemoCampSanFrancisco? I’d love to have one. Anyone in the Bay Area interested? This place is such a hotbed of innovation, surely we can get people together for 10 minute real-world demos of stuff, no?

Leave a comment if you’re interested. This should be something complete open – no restrictions, focus, etc. software… hardware… world-conquering robots… artwork… music… whatever. What do people think?

self-serving?

Thursday, Apr 3. 2008  –  Category: OpenSolaris, Songbird

is it self-serving of me to want to show/talk about/demo Songbird on OpenSolaris at the devsummit coming up in May?

i thought about it long and hard, and decided yeah – it was perhaps a bit self-serving for me to push that as an agenda item. people might view it as abuse of the fact that i’m both an OGB member and work at Songbird.

to that end, i’ve put it up on the agenda anyway and volunteered ken mays, alfred peng, and triskelios to demo it . i put myself at the end of the list since i’d rather those guys did it (especially alfred since he tackled much of the hard build system work, and albert for getting an initial port/patch up). i might say a few words about the integration/code review process of getting it back upstream into Songbird, but nothing too much.

but enough about that. i’ll bring stickers! wonderful farting gaseous stickers!

penguins can fly!

Tuesday, Apr 1. 2008  –  Category: Linkage

as far as April Fools’ jokes go, this BBC iPlayer ad is pretty funny.