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2006/10/30

Hill on Dose (LibriVox, crowdsourcing, etc.)

Filed under: English, Montréal, anglais, collaborer, culture, free, hacktivism Robin @ 17:03 (1500 lectures)

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.

2006/10/28

Wanna work together, latest Creative Commons promotional video

Filed under: English, anglais, copyright, creativecommons, droits d'auteur, free, video Robin @ 21:56 (3405 lectures)

Digg it!

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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2006/10/19

#999: Google TechTalks Tag Cloud

Filed under: English, anglais, communication, google, video Robin @ 21:23 (1273 lectures)

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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2006/10/16

Présentation Ubuntu, Jeudi le 19 octobre (FACIL / Linux-Québec)

Jeff Bailey de Canonical, principal commanditaire de la distribution GNU/Linux dérivée de Debian nommée Ubuntu, est l’heureux élu pour la prochaine présentation mensuelle de FACIL / Linux-Québec. Jeudi soir, à partir de 18h au CRIM.

Pity the bored Montreal geek

Filed under: English, FLOSS, Montréal, anglais, conférence, free, free software, logiciel-libre, software, video Robin @ 18:22 (1727 lectures)

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.

2006/10/13

Montreal Halloween Party 2006

Filed under: English, Montréal, anglais, real life flickr @ 18:34 (52470 lectures)


In labor, originally uploaded by Steve Rhodes.

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.

2006/10/11

Contrevenants de Montréal aux inspections alimentaires

Filed under: Français, Montréal, free, free software, french, gis, google Robin @ 13:41 (1431 lectures)

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

2006/10/10

Les langages de programmation à la radio

Filed under: Français, Montréal, french, media, radio Robin @ 03:02 (1082 lectures)

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 ;)

2006/10/06

15 mashups 15 minutes

“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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Un nuage d’étiquettes (tagcloud) automatisé

Filed under: Français, communication, french, web, web2.0 Robin @ 12:10 (1336 lectures)

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.

Firefox, Debian Sarge and Gmail, again

Filed under: Debian, English, google Robin @ 00:32 (2746 lectures)

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.

2006/10/03

Mercredi Wiki d’octobre! (le 4)

Filed under: Français, Meetups, Montréal, collaborer, french, hacktivism, web, wiki Robin @ 22:45 (1835 lectures)

“Nous aurons quelques invités spéciaux qui nous viennent d’une lointaine contrée, l’Ontario: l’éminent fondateur de MeatBall Wiki, Sunir Shah, et Alain Désilets, un ex-collègue à moi qui fait de la recherche, entre autres, sur les wikis et la “agile usability”. (Tous deux sont impliqués dans l’organisation du symposium international sur les wikis.)

Alain va nous montrer comment des jeunes de 9-10 ans ont utilisé des wikis pour créer des “aventures dont vous êtes le héros” et il nous fera un bref démo de son projet sur les wikis multilingues.” — source : Seb

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