| OSCON 2008 keynotes - Thursday morning | Peter H. Salus discusses the history of Linux for the tenth anniversary of OSCON from the first transistor and it's anniversary to today. He mentions UNIX, he mentions GNU, he mentions Linus .... whats missing ? the conquering forces rewrite history to favour themselves. Fair play. David Recordon of Six Apart beats the drum about open specs especially simple open specs in order to create the open web. I feel he is reiterating the obvious, but I have to accept that these utopian ideals may not be obvious to others. The web will be available everywhere, free wifi will be available everywhere. He also mentions that XMPP is becoming more relevant for the web, instead of people pulling content, and polling sites, sites can now tell you ( hey, who remembers when http push worked ? ) This is slightly contrary to what Brad said yesterday
the web *largely* means http, as it's core protocol, XMPP does not change that, it can mean more than just http ( and BTW, XMPP can work over http, which sort of explains why I may be disagreeing with Brad a bit ) and the phone is just another platform, another device, y'know you can get the web on linux now ;O) Danese Cooper of the Open Source Initiative and Intel Corporation talks about Why Whinging Doesn't Work, which is sort of interesting, it's largely about women in computing but certain aspects can be applied to open source in general. If someone can get a transcript of this talk I highly recommend it, certainly the best keynote so far, and a nice break from the open source circle jerk. I agree with her that the holy wars in computing need to come to an end, but unfortunatly I don't think I will get through today without rolling my eyes when someone makes outlandish claims about some tech or other. I might not even finish this blog post before then. Bonus item - Helsinki Complaints Choir !!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATXV3DzKv68 fork() && exec(): Spawning the Next Generation of Hackers by Nathan Torkington of He Hononga Software in New Zealand. So far he is talking about teaching kids basic computing schools, *BUT* he sees programming as a basic life skill like reading or writing, and I highly agree *BUT* unlike someone like myself who was driven to hack to make the fucking thing work, and my peers who took up hacking later in life because their computers probably worked when they were young, kids want instant gratification and so logo is teh sux0r, robots sux0r, then he found Scratch, which had the flow of programming without the actual programming, instant gratification, and they can have fun. He then moved onto Processing with his son, ( there was a good quip about not wanting to explain subclassing interfaces to a child, ) an example of pair programming, something I never had :O( if I had a therapist I'd be telling them about this. Kids have a short attention span, about two minutes. Boys want to make games, girls are more ambitious and focussed ... that sounds familiar. So he wants geeks to volunteer in schools ... unless you are a pervert, he appreciates we might be. He's actually a really good speaker. Those of you in Hawai'i, this might be a good time to remind you of one of my previous posts. And we're spent. |
2008-07-24 06:25:43 |
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