A few days from now is the first BarCamp we've had in a while: DemoCampMontreal1. DemoCamp is a BarCamp variation with a much shorter time frame (a couple of hours, rather than all day) and strict rules about presenting. Demo-ers cannot use Powerpoint slides (or even OpenOffice Impress slides!); they have to demo working code.
I'm going to be doing the first demo of the first DemoCamp, which should be pretty fun. What will I be demoing? The OpenID extension for MediaWiki, of course. I'd like to show folks who have MW installs how to get OpenID enabled on their sites, and I'd like to show other developers how to (easily) integrate OpenID into their existing software. I don't think it's necessarily that hard.
DemoCampMontreal1 is on Tuesday, Feb 27 2007 at 6:30PM at the SAT. Everybody's invited, and as an extra bonus, t-shirts from BarCampMontreal1 will be there, for attendees. Cool!
tags: democampmontreal1 democamp montreal barcamp democampmontreal barcampmontreal openid mediawiki wiki sat
MLUG now has OpenID
Lurking in #mlug (Montreal Linux Users Group) on Freenode, I caught a cross-discussion about OpenID being enabled on http://mlug.ca/ . Which is great news -- I'm excited to be able to use OpenID on some of my favorite sites.
Creative Commons 3.0
I'm excited to see the announcement that the Creative Commons 3.0 licenses have been released. The 3.0 licenses were in part the product of the Debian-Creative Commons Workgroup, which tried to smoothe the rough edges of the CC licenses that made them incompatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. See the Debian Creative Commons Workgroup report for more info.
We didn't get everything we wanted from the negotiations, but we did get the essential problems out of the way. I think that the 3.0 licenses are compatible with the DFSG, and that works licensed solely under CC 3.0 should be allowed into Debian main. But we probably have some discussion on debian-legal ahead of us on the subject.
Dead tablet walking
So, I think I mentioned that I borrowed a Nokia N800 tablet last week at the LWOSS. I took it to bed two nights ago -- it's a really good computer for reading in bed -- and the battery died on the nightstand overnight.
When I plugged it in in the morning, it went into some kind of zombie fugue. It booted up, spun in place for a little bit, then shut itself down and rebooted again automatically. I couldn't get it to stop with the normal power button, so I eventually pulled the battery to make it stop. But if I put the battery back in, it went into its Roomba-bumping-into-a-wall loop again.
Frustrated, I ended up re-flashing the entire system. That solved the problem, but I have to admit some regret at losing all my settings. It won't take that much work, but I'm going to backup to a mini-SD once it's done.
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