Here in London, we recently hosted London Open Source Jam 13 (Our 14th jam, as naturally we count from zero.) – unlucky for some, but not for us! We threw the floor open to talks of any kind and we had a bumper crop of lightning talks on a diverse range of topics. We learned how to make a wiki in 58 lines of python, why open source developers should care about open standards, some new approaches to database design, and a whole lot more.
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.
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.
- 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
By Malcolm Rowe and Matt Godbolt, Software Engineering Team
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