OSCON 2003

Fyi, I wrote a little about OSCON 2003 on the blog:

   http://www.mod-pubsub.org/blog/archives/141_OSCON_2003.html

Blogchatter is slowly but surely building buzz in the underground:

   http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/

I mean, two weeks ago, the mod_pubsub blog had no links, and now
look at all these links on Technorati:

   http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/links.html?PHPSESSID=f8ee331fe6d9ddaaef59d4b3907d0903&rank=&url=http://mod-pubsub.org

Here's a little write-up about OSCON 2003 that Joyce reminded me
to forward here:

--- Adam Rifkin <[email protected]> wrote:
> It was great.  People LOVE Blogchatter!!!  (As we knew they would.)  My
> lightning talk only lasted a few minutes but there were over 150 people in
> the room listening.  Many questions afterwards.  I picked up an ApacheCon
> 2003 flier so maybe we can talk about strategies there.
> 
> Good feedback: If we want any cred with the OSCON crowd, we need to figure
> out the issue that's hurting Konqueror/Safari support.  (We knew this, but it
> was nice to hear it again a few dozen more times.)
> 
> Good feedback: why not use a PubSub Server to offer the "random" feed from
> Syndic8? (The feed was so popular Jeff had to take it down because people
> were polling the site so much to get the feed!)  We'll have to talk with Jeff
> about the logistics of offering this.
> 
> Good feedback: Cam from Camworld is working on a Web-based RSS viewer.  We
> should keep him in the loop with anything we're thinking about doing there,
> and he offered the same.  He groks the chat/blog/RSS combo killerapp, says
> there's lots of potential there for secure web-based group collab app like
> the one Joyce talks about in the "semi-permeable blogs" rant.
> 
> Jeff Barr was great on a panel about Web Services Bill of Rights:
> 
>    http://www.camworld.com/archives/001226.html
> 
> I'm fired up to do the weekend of coding and sleepover July 18-20 at my
> house.    Glad the server's behaving ok, hopefully next weekend's refactoring
> will make it even better.  (As well as a Mozilla patch or two for pubsub.js.)
> Today we'll be configuring the new mod-pubsub.org Linux boxes... we're well
> on our way!


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