I missed BarCamp recently… did you miss me too ? This event had to lead to greater success for a lot of deserving people, and I can’t think of anyone better then Hugh McGuire to get his fair share. Indeed, he was interviewed by currrent entreprenneurial guy, Austin Hill (Zero Knowledge founder) about LibriVox, crowdsourcing and a few other interesting topics.

Looking at my TechTalks Tagcloud, I just discovered this talk by Mike Linksvayer (CTO of Creative Commons). In it was this unreleased 3 minute video: Wanna work together, CC promotional video to be released in november 2006 [10 MiB], Creative Commons Attribution licence 2.5. I had to extract it, convert it to ogg theora and now you can watch it too downloading only 10 MiB instead of 220 MiB for the whole hour talk.
Update: Mike posted his CC slides online, acknowledging that the text could have been bigger.
Update2: Creative Commons just released the real thing. See their blog for more info.
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In my effort to keep up with the Google TechTalks, I’m keeping a database to index their videos and just made it public after I added this TagCloud view of the Google TechTalks. It’s not much for now, I intend to provide RSS/Atom feeds and let you review and tag the videos. You can already do all this directly from Google Video, but this way I’m concentrating the crowd on a tiny subset of the videos. Not even 200 as I’m posting this, but then again, we’re talking about 200 hours of excellent presentations with top notch speakers and cutting edge topics.
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It’s Satuday (October 21st 2006 in Montreal this time but it could be any Saturday) and the geek inside you is torn over this very important question: BarCamp, Blender or Free Software Workshop? I tell ya, it’s tough to be a geek in Montreal.
P.S.: there was an Installfest scheduled for Saturday too, it’s been postponed until the Quebec Free Software Week (SQIL) mid-November.
We’re having a Halloween party October 28th with a “Pink” theme… So I was thinking, maybe… nah!
Update : plus d’info sur le site maison de Yannick à propos du party d’Halloween.
Je sais pas trop quoi dire de plus… c’est un autre mashup qui utilise Google Map, je l’appelle beurk pour le moment. Dites moi ce que vous en pensez :)
Je n’affiche qu’une seule infraction par contrevenant et les cumulatifs annuels ne fonctionnent pas tous les coups. M’enfin.
Mise à jour : j’aurais dû lier ce billet à 15 mashups 15 minutes…
Yannick et Lila co-animent toujours Dialectes sur CKUT les lundis matins. Hier, l’émision de 30 minutes portait sur les langages de programmation [speex, 3 MiB]. C’est la première fois que j’entends lire du code (deCSS) à la radio ;)
“Quinze mashups en 15 minutes / Fifteen mashups in 15 minutes - Robin Millette - 30 minutes (bin quoi !)” - source: titre de ma présentation pour Barcamp Montréal
La suite de ce billet en français…
The rest of this post in english too…
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Le nuage d’étiquettes (tagcloud) de ConstellationW est maintenant en ligne, à la toute fin de la page. J’ai écris accumulus pour générer automatiquement un nuage pour un site, que ses pages soient étiquetées ou non. Je vais éventuellement mettre le service en ligne et libérer les sources s’il y a de l’intérêt.
I’m kinda “stuck” with Firefox 1.0.4 since I’m using the Debian Sarge GNU/Linux distribution and I prefer to keep to a single codebase. It’s usually not that bad yet there are a few extensions (performancing, grease monkey and chicken foot to name a few) I’ll be happy to try for myself in December, if Etch (the next Debian version) comes out as expected. Now, I’m using Gmail and again, I’m experiencing a little difficulty with the rich interface. In fact, it’s not loading at all anymore, although Google mentions they support Firefox 0.8.
Anybody else having problem with that combo today? If you get a blank page instead of the normal web interface, try the plain html Gmail version and hope it gets fixed soon.