Simon Willison's Weblog: opentech2008http://simonwillison.net/2008-07-07T14:11:55+00:00Simon WillisonOpenTech 2008 "Impossibox" presentation2008-07-07T14:11:55+00:002008-07-07T14:11:55+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/7/opentech/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://www.tomski.com/2008/07/opentech_2008_presentation.shtml">OpenTech 2008 "Impossibox" presentation</a></strong></p>
One of my favourite Open Tech sessions—Tom Loosemore describes the “Impossibox”, a cloud of PVRs collaborating to transcode and share “all decent UK TV for a year” via BitTorrent.
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CKAN - Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network2008-07-05T15:24:37+00:002008-07-05T15:24:37+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/5/ckan/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://www.ckan.net/">CKAN - Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network</a></strong></p>
Aims to be the “Debian of data”, with apt-get style tools for installing datasets. Presented at Open Tech 2008 by Rufus Pollock.
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Open Tech 2008 - 5th July in London2008-03-18T01:03:49+00:002008-03-18T01:03:49+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Mar/18/opentech/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2008/">Open Tech 2008 - 5th July in London</a></strong></p>
Awesome—I still have happy memories of the last Open Tech (back in 2005), very excited about this one. Once again, it’s only a fiver to get in.
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