Archive for the ‘penguicon’ Category

Participatory Web: Wachovia, Enterpise Sabotage, and Liveblogging

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Jack Vinson's impressions of a recent conference caught my eye.  I'm not crazy about the name (I so much prefer "participatory web" to web/anything "2.0"), but I know I'm fighting against the tide here. Anyway, several interesting bits: "The Wachovia presentation this morning appears to have opened some people's eyes on ...

OLPC Penguicon Roundtable notes

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

 Benjamin Mako Hill (Penguicon Guest of Honor, OLPC Common Resources developer, and of other fame) joined us, so the roundtable started with a 15-minute Q&A with him (I hope he was ok with that; the panelists (Frank Schreiber, cmdln, and I) hadn't really come up with a game plan for ...

OLPC Roundtable at Penguicon 2008: Links

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Links relevant to the post I will make shortly: Benjamin Mako Hill Benjamin Mako Hill's entry about Penguicon BMH after Negroponte's remarks OLPC changes and uncertainty OLPC developers are not open source fundamentalists Disruption and Hope Back to the Roundtable: cmdln's detailed write-up of Mako's comments at the start photo 1 photo 2

Penguicon 2008 Overview

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Due to unavoidable circumstances, I was unable to make it to the con (in Michigan) until Saturday night, but I did make it to the Giant Singing Tesla Coil and the Hampster Dance, and then was able to assist with the making of 6 liquid nitrogen ice cream flavors that night.   From midnight until past 2 am :  mint irish cream triple chocolate cinammon orange creamsicle vanilla raspberry another chocolate soda slushies Sunday, ...

Co-Paneling at Penguicon 2008

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Penguicon 2008 is almost here!   Guests of Honor include Jono Bacon (Ubuntu Community Manager for Canonical), Benjamin Mako Hill (Debian/GNU, MIT Media Lab, Free Software Foundation, Ubuntu, Wikimedia), and Vernor Vinge (multiple-Hugo-winning science fiction author, computing visionary).  I'll be participating, too!  I'm on two panels, both on Sunday, April ...

Reply hazy, try again later? and some links

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Sorry for the downtime last week -- the host box developed a motherboard / power supply problem.  It's back up on a new box, and I'm hoping to tinker with WordPress next month.  Sooner than than that,  I'll post about my election judge experience. In the meantime, here are links to ...

Penguicon: audio of my Blogging co-panel; attendee stats; Internet Archive

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

If you've been wishing you could have attended Penguicon, good news! The audio from my "Blogging Your Life Without Losing Your Job or Your Mind" co-panel with Gini Judd is now up on the Internet Archive thanks to the good folks at Penguicon (staff). No clue of the ...

Wrapping Up Penguicon

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

I'm glad to see I'm not the only person still talking about Penguicon. After the con, I had been going to link to other reports, but there were quickly far too many to write about individually; here's a list as of April 28. Scott Whiteman at techPersonal: general impressions and Tech ...

Trading Games, Science Fiction, and Knowledge Technology

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

I took a longer break from blogging here than I'd anticipated, but I'm cranking back up again. Recently I noticed that Pieter Spronk, the author of my favorite PalmOS game, Space Trader, is the Director of Studies of Knowledge Technology at Universiteit Maastricht. He also teaches Logic and Games & ...

Blogging Panels at Penguicon

Monday, April 30th, 2007

After my Knowledge Gardening talk was accepted for Penguicon 5.0, Matt Arnold the Programming Wrangler copied me on email asking who was interested in co-panelling on [a list of possible topics]. I picked "Blogging Your Life Without Losing Your Job, Or Your Mind", and emailed my co-panelists ...

Talking ’bout my Presentation

Friday, April 27th, 2007

My Knowledge Gardening talk at Penguicon went very well. I was delighted with the interest in my talk and the discussion afterwards. I had put in a lot of prep time putting what I knew into slide format and researching examples (saved to my links library) of knowledge ...

Penguicon 5.0

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

I had a great time at Penguicon. My talk and my panels went pretty well (more on them in future entries), I attended interesting talks, got to dance, and met some pretty cool people. There was a lot of neat stuff to be found just wandering the halls; ...

Metadata, schmetadata … or useful context?

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

erp4it: A metadata rant is an example of folks reacting badly to the term "metadata". In the linked entry, the rant is in the context of IT and enterprise resource planning (ERP), but I've also seen other vehement objections to the term (see the Wikipedia criticisms on it). ...

The Future of Learning

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

I've been getting ready for Penguicon coming up next weekend, putting Knowledge Gardening slides together and re-working them after a dry run, looking at other slides/presentation technology (S5) for later consideration, and so on. If I weren't going there, though, I might be tempted to run down to NC for ...

Looking forward: Presenting at Penguicon!

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Penguicon is an open source / science fiction con mashup. Penguicon 5.0 will take place April 20-22, 2007, in Troy, Michigan. They're estimating they'll get about 800 attendees this year. Geekery will abound, from Nanotech Safety to Security and Psychology to Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream. Guests ...

Personal manufacturing and Penguicon

Friday, March 9th, 2007

When I lived in Rochester, NY, I gave small dinner parties occasionally.  Now that I live in the DC area, where all my "local" friends are distributed up to an hour away, I usually go out to meet them (dancing, for instance) instead.  But if I were to give a dinner party ...