Simon Willison’s Weblog

OSCON in 37 minutes. 45 OSCON talks summarised by their presenters in just 37 minutes, compiled by Gregg Pollack. I get to rant about OpenID for a minute at 27:22.

# 29th July 2008, 11:59 pm / openid, video, oscon, greggpollack

The Open Web Foundation. Launched today at OSCON, an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to incubating and protecting new specifications like OAuth and oEmbed. The focus is incubation, licensing, copyright and community.

# 24th July 2008, 5:40 pm / oauth, oembed, copyright, oscon, oscon08, openwebfoundation, openweb

Python BoF and Django Drinkup (via) At OSCON? Come along to the Jax Bar tonight (Tuesday 22nd) from 7pm to 10pm to hang out with fellow Pythoneers and Djangonaughts.

# 22nd July 2008, 6:48 pm / python, django, oscon, social, bof

Grub. Jimmy Wales just announced at OSCON that Wikia have acquired Grub from LookSmart, and will be releasing it as open source.

# 27th July 2007, 5:24 pm / search, oscon07, looksmart, open-source, oscon, jimmywales, grub, wikia

tesseract-ocr. Open source OCR, sponsored by Google. I just sat in on a talk on this at OSCON and the complexity of the problem is pretty incredible.

# 26th July 2007, 8:23 pm / ocr, tesseract, google, oscon, oscon07

OpenID Bootcamp Tutorial. Slides from the OpenID Bootcamp tutorial I gave this morning with David Recordon.

# 25th July 2007, 12:39 am / openid, david-recordon, bootcamp, speaking, oscon, oscon07

Django Master Class. Notes and slides from the OSCON tutorial I gave yesterday with Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Jeremy Dunck.

# 24th July 2007, 3:20 pm / oscon, jeremy-dunck, django, jacob-kaplan-moss, oscon07, speaking, tutorial, python

OSCON 2007 Call for Participation. The submission deadline is February 5th; the conference itself is July 23rd to 27th.

# 13th January 2007, 10:47 pm / oscon, conferences, cfp