Time for the final podcast from O’Reilly’s European Open Source Convention 2005. As well as talking to Program Chair Nat Torkingtonabout the conference as a whole, I speak to Michael Sparks bout his Kamelia system for linknig code into applciations (a very old school use of OSCon) and Tom Steinberg, who is Open Sourcing democracy (the new ideas of OSCon beyond programming).

Kamelia, Michael Sparks (http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/).
Tom Steinberg, My Society (http://www.mysociety.org/)
Nat Torkington, O’Reilly EuroOSCon Program Chair.

Tags: Euro OSCon, My Society, Kamelia, O’Reilly.

I’ll let Piers Cawley explain this one…

This year’s EuroOSCON had no lightning talks scheduled. Then, late on Wednesday night, I noticed that a talk had been cancelled. Aha! I thought. I asked around a few people I knew who normally go for the lightning thing, got a critical mass of interested parties, went and found Nat and we were good to go. And it was good. Even if we hadn’t organized the session at less than 12 hours notice it would have been good.

So who do we have?

BooK, The Sensational YAPC Magazine Covers.
Dennis Kaarsemaker, Ubuntu and Launchpad.
Suw Charman, Open Rights Group UK.
Damian Conway, 101 Reasons I Love Perl 6.
Gervase Markham, Phishing: Conning the Unwary for Fun and Profit.
Jesse Vincent, Refactoring Perl.

Missing here are three talks. One from Piers himself on how to make sure that pictures taken of you are good (it was highly visual and just didn’t work as a ‘cast); Russ Nelson talking about his chorded keybaord (Russ and I coverd 95% of the same ground in the interview from Make Fest); and some random bloke called Ewan Spence talking about podcasting…

Tags: Euro OSCon, Lightning Talk, Perl, ORG, Phising, O’Reilly.

Russ Nelson, The Chorded Bluetooth Glove.
Dale Dougherty, Editor of MAKE Magazine.
Bre Pettis, The Drawing Robot.
Hans Krohn, Homebrew Flight Simulator.

In some respects, the MAKE Fest, where O’Reilly gather together the tinkers of the world to show of their projects is nothing more than a glorified MacGyver convention - and in a sense it is. A collection of people who aren’t bound by the rules of products and consumer sociey, and are determined to break the moulds and rules to do something different.

So the MAKE Fest is a celebration of this, the ingenuity of people. Time to grab the microphone and see what it is all about

Tags: Euro OSCon, MAKE, MAKE Fest, O’Reilly.

Jim Purbrick
Open Source and Second Life
Deeeep Witte
SL Business Magazine

THere’s lots going on here, it’s like a different world - and that’s what today’s show is all about. Imagine a space with over $600,000 turnover each month, three times the size of manhattan, where 25% of the population build stuff and play with the tools of life. That’s Second Life.

I spoke to two people concentrating on different areas of Second LIfe, the first was Jim Purbrick, one of the coders who taks about the progress in using Open Source tools for Second Life (and making Second Life open source itself); and then Deeeep Witte (his SL name) about the SL Business Magazine.

Tags: Euro OSCon, Second Life, SL Business, O’Reilly.

Kobdy Amedume, The Zimki Website
Javascipt, It’s Happening All Over Again!

Well, finally at the conference, and people are starting to arrive. I managed to grab a hold of Koby, who works for Fotango - and they are launching a new JavaScript service, Zimki, at EuroOSCon. I asked him what the service was all about.

Tags: Euro OSCon, Fotango, Zimki, O’Reilly.

As well as a number of pre-confernece interviews that we are running just now, while the conference is running I’ll be reporting from the floor with short daily interviews and features, talking to a number of people at the Conference, and catching up with some of the news that I am sure is going to come out during the 4 days in Brussels!

Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Boot Camp
Jabber, The State of the Bulb

Alex has just pointed out that the uploaded file has last the last four minutes - I’[m away from the original files jsut now, but will endeavour to get the compelted show up as soon as possible.

It’s fair to say that without instant messaging, the internet (and podcasting) would be a lot more lesiurly paced. As with everything, there is an open standard, and the Jabber XMPP protocols are well known. Presenting on two areas at EuroOSCon is one of the executive directors of the Jabber Foundation, Peter Saint-Andre, and I spoke to him to find out more about the protocols, why we need them to be open, and the high bandwidth environment of conferences.

Tags: Euro OSCon, Jabber, O’Reilly.

Jeff Waugh
Ubuntu: Community Building for Human Beings

Like the Canadaian Mounties, I’ll always get my man. Jeff and I have fought a ten hour time difference, chock full diaries and just plain bad luck to finally get the Skype call lined up. I wanted to talk to the man behind the Ubuntu community - for a Linux distro that was almsot unknown a year or so ago, it’s made a huge impact.

Tags: Euro OSCon, Ubuntu, O’Reilly.

Louis Suarez-Potts
Making It Work: How to Build a Successful Open Source Project

Time to start our coverage of O’Reilly’s European Open Source Convention. I’ll be doing some pre-show interviews, and then coverage from the Conference floor. Anyone you want to hear from? Let me know at ewan@thepodcastnetwork.com. To start off, I caught with Louis Suarez-Potts, one of the leading lights behind Open Office dot Org, a leading Open Source project.

Tags: Euro OSCon, OpenOffice, O’Reilly.

Hot from a second successful year covering the Ednburgh Festival Fringe, Ewan Spence will bring pre-conference interviews with some of the leading lights in the Open Source movement, along with daily coverage every evening from the conference itself.

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Tags: Euro OSCon, O’Reilly.