[sldev] Open Source Show and Tell

[Christian Scholz / Tao Takashi (SL)]

Hi!

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Paul Oppenheim (Poppy Linden) <
poppy at lindenlab.com> wrote:

> I recently brought up the idea of having an open source get-together to
> let you, the hackers, run the show and talk about your projects. The small



> audience I brought it up to seemed enthusiastic for a meeting that would
> be less linden-centric.
>

That's indeed a great idea! :-)


I'd like to have a once-a-month get together for a show and tell about your
> projects. Hopefully this could be an outlet if you have a viewer project you
> want to show off, a non-SL open source project you want to show to an SLdev
> audience, or otherwise have some variety of judicious hack to show off.
> Whatever. I'm aiming for the vibe of a hacker meetup, except once a month
> and for only an hour or so. The real question is, what are you doing with
> open source?
>

Some things:

- I am working on the core and add-on products for the open source CMS Plone
(http://plone.org)
- I am working on something which might become an Agent Domain for Second
Life ( http://code.google.com/p/pysecondlife/)
- I am doing some stuff with python, like an XFN parser recently (
http://mrtopf.de/blog/web20/the-xfn-microformat-and-a-spider-in-python/)



> Any suggestions?
>
> So far I've heard:
> * have it every week like an office hour
> * make it once a quarter for half a day
> * have a slot signup on the wiki
> * have a freeform discussion / hangout


Hard to tell how often and long it should be, maybe it depends on how it
runs.. So maybe make an initial one and then we can see. But maybe make it 2
hours then depending on the amount of projects. I guess timezones will also
be a problem again so maybe it should shift in time from one meeting to
another.


I'm leaning towards once a month with some kind of stage /
> front-of-the-classroom, and a place to chill and hack together. If you're
> someone with a project to show off, I *really* want to hear what *you* would
> like.


It could be somewhat barcamp style, we can also announce it on barcamp.org:-)

cheers,

Tao


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