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OSCON Day 0

Thursday, Jul 24. 2008  –  Category: OpenSolaris, OpenSource, Songbird

You can find photos from the first day here

To recap, on the first day I attended John Resig’s talk on “Secrets of JS Libraries” (I saved a local copy of the slides, but forgot where he put the PDF online) which was great. I think it was probably tough for him given the disparity of skill sets in the audience… I’m glad I didn’t have to do a 4 hour preso After jeresig’s talk, I was coerced was happy to be involved in an OpenSolaris podcast with David Comay, Glynn Foster, and Barton George. We discussed contribution and governance issues, as well as package contributions and maintenance.

After my podcast and some time spent working on my slides, we ended up at Jax with a bunch of other Mozilla & Python dudes where I finally got a chance to meet with Justin Erenkrantz (who ran for the OGB this term) where we chatted about OpenSolaris amongst other stuff.

After dinner, I headed out to Teardrop, a brilliant cocktail lounge with a couple of Moz folks, Mikeal Rogers & Jay Patel. Mikeal & Clint’s work on a UI automation test framework for Mozilla/XUL apps sounds really promising, and I’m looking forward to checking it out (obviously for our own QA automation, but I’m also wondering if it’d be a cheap easy way to do external scripting of Songbird’s UI with it)

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