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 / greggpollack, openid, oscon, video

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 / copyright, oauth, oembed, openweb, openwebfoundation, oscon, oscon08

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 / bof, django, oscon, python, social

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 / grub, jimmywales, looksmart, open-source, oscon, oscon07, search, 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 / google, ocr, oscon, oscon07, tesseract

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

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

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 / django, jacob-kaplan-moss, jeremy-dunck, oscon, oscon07, python, speaking, tutorial

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 / cfp, conferences, oscon