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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: oscon</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/oscon.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2008-07-29T23:59:14+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>OSCON in 37 minutes</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/29/oscon/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-07-29T23:59:14+00:00</published><updated>2008-07-29T23:59:14+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/29/oscon/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.railsenvy.com/2008/7/29/oscon-videos"&gt;OSCON in 37 minutes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
45 OSCON talks summarised by their presenters in just 37 minutes, compiled by Gregg Pollack. I get to rant about OpenID for a minute at 27:22.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gregg-pollack"&gt;gregg-pollack&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid"&gt;openid&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oscon"&gt;oscon&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/video"&gt;video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="gregg-pollack"/><category term="openid"/><category term="oscon"/><category term="video"/></entry><entry><title>The Open Web Foundation</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/24/openwebfoundation/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-07-24T17:40:02+00:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T17:40:02+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/24/openwebfoundation/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://openwebfoundation.org/"&gt;The Open Web Foundation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Launched today at OSCON, an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to incubating and protecting new specifications like OAuth and oEmbed. The focus is incubation, licensing, copyright and community.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/copyright"&gt;copyright&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oauth"&gt;oauth&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oembed"&gt;oembed&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openweb"&gt;openweb&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openwebfoundation"&gt;openwebfoundation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oscon"&gt;oscon&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oscon08"&gt;oscon08&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="copyright"/><category term="oauth"/><category term="oembed"/><category term="openweb"/><category term="openwebfoundation"/><category term="oscon"/><category term="oscon08"/></entry><entry><title>Python BoF and Django Drinkup</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/22/drinkup/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-07-22T18:48:37+00:00</published><updated>2008-07-22T18:48:37+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/22/drinkup/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://oscon.pdxpython.org/"&gt;Python BoF and Django Drinkup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
At OSCON? Come along to the Jax Bar tonight (Tuesday 22nd) from 7pm to 10pm to hang out with fellow Pythoneers and Djangonaughts.

    &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/918773/"&gt;Upcoming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bof"&gt;bof&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django"&gt;django&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oscon"&gt;oscon&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python"&gt;python&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/social"&gt;social&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="bof"/><category term="django"/><category term="oscon"/><category term="python"/><category term="social"/></entry><entry><title>Grub</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/27/grub/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-07-27T17:24:09+00:00</published><updated>2007-07-27T17:24:09+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/27/grub/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grub_%28search_engine%29"&gt;Grub&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Jimmy Wales just announced at OSCON that Wikia have acquired Grub from LookSmart, and will be releasing it as open source.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/grub"&gt;grub&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jimmywales"&gt;jimmywales&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/looksmart"&gt;looksmart&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source"&gt;open-source&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oscon"&gt;oscon&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oscon07"&gt;oscon07&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/search"&gt;search&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wikia"&gt;wikia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="grub"/><category term="jimmywales"/><category term="looksmart"/><category term="open-source"/><category term="oscon"/><category term="oscon07"/><category term="search"/><category term="wikia"/></entry><entry><title>tesseract-ocr</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/26/tesseractocr/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-07-26T20:23:08+00:00</published><updated>2007-07-26T20:23:08+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/26/tesseractocr/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/"&gt;tesseract-ocr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Open source OCR, sponsored by Google. I just sat in on a talk on this at OSCON and the complexity of the problem is pretty incredible.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google"&gt;google&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ocr"&gt;ocr&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oscon"&gt;oscon&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oscon07"&gt;oscon07&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tesseract"&gt;tesseract&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="google"/><category term="ocr"/><category term="oscon"/><category term="oscon07"/><category term="tesseract"/></entry><entry><title>OpenID Bootcamp Tutorial</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/25/openid/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-07-25T00:39:07+00:00</published><updated>2007-07-25T00:39:07+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/25/openid/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slideshare.net/daveman692/openid-bootcamp-tutorial"&gt;OpenID Bootcamp Tutorial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Slides from the OpenID Bootcamp tutorial I gave this morning with David Recordon.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bootcamp"&gt;bootcamp&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/david-recordon"&gt;david-recordon&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid"&gt;openid&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oscon"&gt;oscon&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oscon07"&gt;oscon07&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/speaking"&gt;speaking&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/my-talks"&gt;my-talks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="bootcamp"/><category term="david-recordon"/><category term="openid"/><category term="oscon"/><category term="oscon07"/><category term="speaking"/><category term="my-talks"/></entry><entry><title>Django Master Class</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/24/django/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-07-24T15:20:44+00:00</published><updated>2007-07-24T15:20:44+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/24/django/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://toys.jacobian.org/presentations/2007/oscon/tutorial/"&gt;Django Master Class&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Notes and slides from the OSCON tutorial I gave yesterday with Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Jeremy Dunck.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django"&gt;django&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jacob-kaplan-moss"&gt;jacob-kaplan-moss&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jeremy-dunck"&gt;jeremy-dunck&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oscon"&gt;oscon&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oscon07"&gt;oscon07&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python"&gt;python&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/speaking"&gt;speaking&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/my-talks"&gt;my-talks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tutorial"&gt;tutorial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="django"/><category term="jacob-kaplan-moss"/><category term="jeremy-dunck"/><category term="oscon"/><category term="oscon07"/><category term="python"/><category term="speaking"/><category term="my-talks"/><category term="tutorial"/></entry><entry><title>OSCON 2007 Call for Participation</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jan/13/oscon/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-01-13T22:47:28+00:00</published><updated>2007-01-13T22:47:28+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jan/13/oscon/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2007/create/e_sess"&gt;OSCON 2007 Call for Participation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
The submission deadline is February 5th; the conference itself is July 23rd to 27th.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/call-for-proposals"&gt;call-for-proposals&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/conferences"&gt;conferences&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oscon"&gt;oscon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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