twittering on 2008-07-29

  • @gorthx no feedback online – just good convo #
  • @tmagee he runs a project mgmt mailing list you might be interested in. Will fwd details to you via email #
  • @kmazz scary! Glad to hear he is ok. #
  • done with powells gorging on Spanish and guide books. ‘hot! Spanish for guys and girls’ is my fav so far #
  • no gender differences found in math performance: http://www.news.wisc.edu/15412 #
  • sleepy sleepy. will start that mailing list tomorrow… #

twittering on 2008-07-28

  • Done a powells, next stop probably is roots! #
  • @schwern meet us at greendragon later! #
  • Talking Portland tech at green dragon – we need a local tech conference for and by pdx #
  • not feeding the troll much and considering scotch #
  • @xolotl is here and causing problems #
  • RT @emmajanedotnet: my slideshow was just highlighted as an “of the day” on slideshare. I can has faer #
  • Reading oscin evaluations for my talks #
  • @petdance I got a few good ones 🙂 the best feedback prolly came from the UG BoF though – stuff I’ll use to
    make the preso better #
  • @markgross go to register then your account and the speaking tab on the oscon site. Should be a link to “view full details” #
  • @tmagee good to see you last week. You’ve checked out Scott Berkun’s discussion list, right? #

twittering on 2008-07-27

  • Probably headed to roots brewery for a short pub crawl with @emmajane – any takers? Probably will head out around 7:30ish. DM me! #
  • our plan was to go to green d after roots 🙂 #
  • Getting ready for trip to the Japanese garden with @emmajane, and then the home & garden version of powells in hawthorne #
  • @KathySierra LOL 🙂 #
  • For @br3nda: http://twitpic.com/5n9a #

twittering on 2008-07-25

  • Listening to emma jane hogbin talk about diversity and getting more women to conferences. Hard work makes change happen. #oscon #
  • In does open source need to be organic panel – @brianaker and others, rob lanphier moderating #
  • Organic vs. Inorganic – open roadmap? Contrib from community? Code thrown over fence? Helps determine what business models are avail. #
  • OH “corporate sociopathic Drucker crowd” #
  • @brianaker says launchpad is cool because they have a managed way of handling forks – finally it’s easy to do this w/ distributed rev ctl #
  • @mherrick66 try launchpad! #
  • Commit access means that you’re the garbage man – it’s not license to push features #
  • Panel keeps emphasizing pluggable architectures 🙂 #
  • @stewartsmith in keynote #

twittering on 2008-07-24

  • @ian_b thanks! Glad you liked it! #
  • At #oscon scoring coffee #
  • Ugh. These slides are terrible! Someone should have gone to Damian Conway’s speaker tutorial! #
  • Looking forward to @gnat’s talk about spawning the next generation of hackers #oscon #
  • @Lelonopo I’m feeling exactly the same way. #
  • Liking @divadanese’s bringing up confirmation bias #
  • @gnat shares scratch.MIT.edu #
  • Loving @gnat’s talk about kids and computers #
  • In @petdance’s just enough C for open source projects #oscon #
  • @eggyknap people connecting through tech for sharing, learning, building 1:1 relationships and, ultmately, community. #
  • @eggyknap from there more specific goals: jobs, speaking practice, proj contrib, friends, prof dev, find new developers, mktg, and more! #
  • @Theory of course! 🙂 #
  • 50 people on @aaronthul’s PostgreSQL on drugs talk! #oscon #

twittering on 2008-07-23

  • @xanadont yr welcome re: leif erickson. hope you had a good time 🙂 #
  • sleepy. #
  • Up, getting ready for a crazy day at OSCON #
  • listening to @brianaker talk about Drizzle #
  • @storming yes he is 🙂 #
  • woot! @brianaker Gave a shout out to PostgreSQL and postgis #
  • Did drizzle learn from the drupal model? 😀 #
  • in pia waugh’s talk on Heros in FOSS #oscon #
  • OH “screw you hippies!” (in response to new zealanders having laptops that ship with linux) #
  • @verso omg. this is totally the place for that. #
  • @brianaker 😀 good show this morning! #
  • @dlangille :0 pia said it! #
  • pia mentioning: advocates & leaders: dorothy okello and amy jiang #
  • pia says get into schools and universities and in front of parents – speak about what you do, why you love it and about free software! #
  • get in front of kids in primary school to get them interested in it #oscon #fossheros #
  • @gotthx & i are giving our talk on Running Successful User Groups in D138 #oscon #

twittering on 2008-07-22

  • @brianaker ahhh. well.. maybe i’ll save that for something i start just before bed this evening 🙂 #
  • @stewartsmith @brianaker http://www.vegportland.com/restaurants/ #
  • sipping scotch and working on slides for people for geeks #
  • the title of my slide deck is “leading without being in charge” #
  • @kscaldef well, if you can’t come, maybe i could give the talk at code-n-splode this summer #
  • @br3nda yeah! the postgresql party rocked! one more reason to come next year 🙂 pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theory/sets/721576063#
  • postgresql shirts on their way to my house! #
  • getting ready to start people for geeks… #
  • @jmoriarty thanks 🙂 #
  • @jabancroft thanks so much 🙂 #

twittering on 2008-07-21

  • @petdance says it’s ironic that there’s lack of table space at the PostgreSQL party. #
  • Feeling good after a great party @ Gotham Tavern for PostgreSQL last night. Getting ready for brunch with @fuzzychef & maybe @stewartsmith #
  • @Theory where are the pictures!? #
  • @gorthx awww, thanks. and thank you for helping organize! #
  • ordering some bark dust, then off to hack Drizzle with @stewartsmith #
  • @kscaldef scheduling mistake 🙁 i asked Oreilly to change it… still hoping #
  • @gorthx is highlighting Test::Difference coolness in Josh McAdam’s presentation #