Here in London, we recently hosted London Open Source Jam 13
Kai Hendry talked about Webconverger, a teeny weeny Linux Live CD designed for web kiosks, and his experience commercialising an open source project by offering services to go with it.Zak Cohen shared his experiences using open source libraries in the games world in developing the award-winning game Climbactic. It turns out there's some great open source stuff out there, but sometimes paying for support is the only way to get the features you need.
Frederik Dohr and Mike Mahemoff spoke about TiddlyWeb, a generic RESTful store for structured data, and Scrumptious, a jQuery-based web app that allows people to annotate and comment on web pages, which uses TiddlyWeb for storage.
By Malcolm Rowe and Matt Godbolt, Software Engineering Team
Frederik Dohr and Mike Mahemoff spoke about TiddlyWeb, a generic RESTful store for structured data, and Scrumptious, a jQuery-based web app that allows people to annotate and comment on web pages, which uses TiddlyWeb for storage.Other contributors included:
- Simon Stewart - Testing Google Wave with WebDriver
- Jon Skeet - The Dynamic Language Runtime and C# 4.0
- Zaheda Bhorat - Open Standards
- Ambikesh Jayal - Open source e-Learning middleware
- Paul Walmsley - Bayesian data modelling
- David Sheldon - Where's Java's CPAN?
- Robert Rees - Bazaar Wiki
- Rob McKinnon - Politics and representation
- Ivan De Marino - Caching templated CSS
- Matt Godbolt - Testing+Mobile
- Nicolas Roard - Seaside and Smalltalk
- Phil Dawes - New approaches to database server design
The OSJam website has more information about all the talks, and the photographs taken at the event are available on Picasa Web Albums.
We'll be planning the next OSJam for a couple of months' time - subscribe to the London Open Source Jam Group or keep any eye on the OSJam website (Atom feed) for more details.
