Notes from BarCamp Vancouver
August 26, 2006 - 9:38pm — bmann
- every event should make a list of "fun URLs" that get thought up at events -- and then registered, like http://www.myurlistoolong.com
- there were are as many great presentations that I couldn't make it to as I did attend
- we need to find a kit to stress-test wireless networks ahead of time...or revert to wired connections
- I got to talk to many great people...and also missed spending time with others (too many to mention...but Zug is definitely in my thoughts)
- Google needs to point out who the heck is going to talk about identity issues (from technical interop to privacy); also, say things in public about your logging policy
- every time I talk about microformats I passionately argue the opposite case; they are a great solution for putting mixed, structured content into one big text blob (i.e. a blog post with an event, a location, some people, and a resume); they are not a great solution for passing structured data between systems and/or for presenting a pure feed of one type of data (events, people, etc.)
- OpenID does simple sign on great today -- go ahead and implement it; SXIP is a better solution, since it also covers profiles and personas. Dick and company: get us a stable implementation and put all your code in one place and we will implement the h*ck out of it; while you're at it, unite the tribes, extend OpenID to v3 or whatever the hell we have to wait for until it has profile/persona support too, and make sure we have an upgrade path and/or compatibility with SAML. Thanks.
- The Vancouver tech community is awesome. So awesome that we get fun friends from the US coming up to visit us. We should get together more often, but perhaps with a little less intensity, 'cause I'm exhausted.
- We need to do a Foo(d) Camp
- Bill MacEwen's Workspace is a great space, and he's put a ton of work into it; lots of people are excited about using the space, I'll even be renting a room on Tuesday; I applaud him and his business, I still wish we could do a non-profit version
- I'm kicking myself for not playing with/implementing VoIP sooner; why the heck am I bound by the shackles of the stupid phone system? Asterisk is awesome, thanks to George of Netvoice...I hope you will make my (telephony) life and that of other local Vancouver geeks better in the days to come
- I like to BBQ
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I didn't have it on my
I didn't have it on my slide, but I made mention of you on my site for the URL. Credit where credit is due. Nice seeing you again.
Identity
Grr. I went to make a comment on Dick's site and got a SxIP login.
It feels just like being presented with a demand to sign up for Microsoft Passport. I don't want to sign on to a centralized registry in order to post a comment.
It's easy to ask sites supporting OpenID to support, as you say, an 'upgrade path' (I'm not so sure it's an upgrade) to SxIP.
But I want the reverse. I want a 'downgrade path' to an open identity system, so that I can self-identify.
That, though, is a but harder.
Identity
Hi Stephen,
Please bear with us. Dick's Identity 2.0 site uses sxore for commenters, which currently supports multiple login options for bloggers using sxore (ie. OpenID, InfoCard, iNames) but doesn't yet support the same ability to self-identify for commenters. This is coming, however we're waiting for more feedback from the community before implementing it.
Microformats
"every time I talk about microformats I passionately argue the opposite case; they are a great solution for putting mixed, structured content into one big text blob"
I've been playing with microformats, updating old reviews with them and including them on new reviews (see my reviews that have been "microformatted"). I still don't know if I'm doing it right because there aren't any validators other than the human kind, at least not as far as I can tell. There's a great post (which at some time I'll add my, y'know, response) at Bryght's support website about CCK and microformats using Drupal, also posted in briefer form on the drupal.org forums. I don't know if microformats + CCK is the answer for "structured blogging/publishing", but it's something I've been thinking about, i.e. having the microformats at the "theme layer" means you still keep the data in the database and structured as CCK nodes.
Anyway, I think microformats are at least worth playing around with (if only, to be honest, because Mark Pilgrim signed on).