Peter did another fantastic job putting together this months meetup. We decided to stick with Wednesdays so we would not collide with the Plone meetup which is on Thursdays, but um… oh well…
There were two guest speakers:
1: George Lambert, Goldenware Technology
2: Mike Pittaro, SnapLogic open source data integration Project implemented in 100% Python
I decided to try something new and record the event on my little sensa mp3 player. The audio is bad at best, but it is mostly audible. We were in Somerville so at some points an airplane goes overhead. If these prove useful to people I will bring better recording equipment next time. My A/V production equipment is tied up on another project so all I did was split the audio into multiple tracks and do a lame re-encode. I tried to keep the files to under 25Meg while splitting based on topics. Unfortunately meetup.com has a 10Meg per file limit and a 100Meg per group max, so that was out of the question. The first file is under 8Meg, so please check that out first and only if you can withstand the audio quality, check out the others. I and my bandwidth will appreciate it.
NOTE: The audio is extremely soft at points and at the beginning, so you will need to crank the volume up.
- Introductions and Django.June recap (mp3, ogg)
- Mass TLC recap, and an extensive discussion on GPLv3, Licensing, Patents, and Python (mp3, ogg)
- Lightning rounds with George Lambert and Mike Pittaro. (mp3, ogg)
- Open Discussion (mp3, ogg)
The software George Lambert mentions which is used to view changes in the GPLv3 draft is Plone! Though there is talk of converting the FSF web site over to a Django based one. I sent an e-mail to the lists giving better information on OLPC for those interested as well. Noah Kantrowitz responded offering to help anyone in the group get started with development.
