OSCON Day 1
July 24th, 2008 Stephen Lau
You can find my photos from the second day of OSCON here.
Woke up early and headed in to catch Tim O’Reilly’s keynote where he made some awesome points on data-lockdown, loss of data-portability freedom, and the programmable web which pretty much made my point for me for my Songbird talk the next day. 
After that, we headed down to the booth (which Jay Patel had freaking awesomely setup the night before for us - thanks Jay!) I spent most of my day here at the booth answering questions, talking about Songbird, and of course selling our t-shirts (proceeds went to the Mozilla Foundation). The booth was fantastic, it was great talking to a ton of people about Songbird. We heard a bunch of great feedback and talked to a lot of people who were familiar with it, had run it in the past, and were just waiting for it to get to 1.0. I also had a lot of great discussion with Moz, MailCo, and Miro guys. I’ll post a separate blog of some of the issues and topics we talked about.
I got to see a ton of familiar friends on the floor… Intel Dave, and Intel Max, my many friends and fellow OGB members from Sun, all the folks from MindTouch Deki, and of course a ton of folks from Mozilla & Mozdev.
That evening I went to the Mozdev BOF where we chatted about extension development, and some tricks and tools for building extensions. Following that I attended the Mindtouch party for a bit to say hi and chat with Deki folks, and then ended my night at the Sun party.
Highlights from the Sun party were the copious gin & tonics, just barely losing to gman in air hockey (10-9! damnit!), watching plocher and joerg schilling sumo wrestle (it was close, but I think plocher won), and watching Postgres (Josh) & MySQL (Monty) sumo wrestle (MySQL schooled Postgres).
[tags: OpenSolaris, OpenSource, Songbird]
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TimC | July 25th, 2008 at 06:54
Ok, I’ve tried songbird several times, an I still have one big gripe. Maybe I’m weird, maybe I’m the only one this annoys.
When I want to open a streaming station say… bassdrive.com, on winamp I can just hit the plus sign to add a url, and type in http://www.bassdrive.com/BassDrive.m3u, it loads it, everything is fat and happy. With Songbird I’m forced to download the .m3u, and mess around with getting it to load. That’s a pain… and it REALLY doesn’t seem like it should be that tough if you’re leveraging mozilla to open a temporary file and load it into songbird.
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