Simon Willison’s Weblog

OpenTech 2008 “Impossibox” presentation. One of my favourite Open Tech sessions—Tom Loosemore describes the “Impossibox”, a cloud of PVRs collaborating to transcode and share “all decent UK TV for a year” via BitTorrent.

# 7th July 2008, 2:11 pm / bittorrent, impossibox, opentech, opentech2008, pvr, tom-loosemore, tv

CKAN—Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network. Aims to be the “Debian of data”, with apt-get style tools for installing datasets. Presented at Open Tech 2008 by Rufus Pollock.

# 5th July 2008, 3:24 pm / ckan, data, opentech, opentech2008, rufuspollock

Open Tech 2008—5th July in London. Awesome—I still have happy memories of the last Open Tech (back in 2005), very excited about this one. Once again, it’s only a fiver to get in.

# 18th March 2008, 1:03 am / conferences, events, opentech, opentech2008