Man, I totally misread my Korean phone today and thought I had overslept to Noon, but I got all the way to where this gig is at, looked at my phone and it said 8 AM!!! I somehow confused the 24 hour clock time. When it is late at night, like midnight, it says 00:24, for 12:24. I’m just not so used to 24 hour time settings and meters — another sad American thing like not knowing Canada or Mexico (neighbors) very well.
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Ok, so I had to learn NSIS Installer in my further push for Open Source for this place I’m doing consulting, GoPets. I built their installer and realized that I now had the power to rapidly build a quality Windows Installer for the Open Clip Art Library. I have now posted the result up on the OCAL downloads section. I think this will really help our windows users, and it also provides a versioned way for installing each OCAL package, so that they can cumulatively be installed onto a user’s system. I guess I should offer the ability to overwrite the last one, but that can be added to the todo list.
Also, I took time to put up the info about using the new OCAL bug tracker. Please file your bugs! The fd.o sitewranglers are great folks!
I think this Ars Technica review of MAC OS X 10.4 is a good read for us Open Source folks. Man, Apple gets so many things right in their centralized approach to OSS. To bad not a lot of their code is opened up. Check out the section on Launchd and on Metadata.
My friend Chuck (here in Korea) has an interesting project called SetPixel where he allows his friends to post projects. It is similar to Scale and OCAL, but for more developed media arts projects. Check out new project that debuted at Seoul’s Art Center Nabi this last week.
I just read this post by Bryan Clark about having a background service that feeds desktop pictures periodically according to an rss feed. I think this is a brilliant idea that could be used successfully in the open clip art library. It would be great to have rss feeds of the various clip art images in our library that would automagically load on people’s computers. It would be really easy to make an rss feed of our content, that would randomly load a different image for each day. Hmmm…..I need to think about this more because there could be many iterations of this concept that would be useful to OCAL.
Hey, I wonder if other people do this as well. I find that I work many extra hours doing this contract corporate gig to make sure that the company uses open standards and open software. I even go out of my way to add on to projects that I touch lightly. I’m looking for corroboration here.
Ok, so my over exertion has caught up with me a bit here in Seoul. I just slept 14 hours to catch up on my lack of sleep from meeting friends and going to events. I have met many great people this trip, but I needed this rest to refocus to help get this Gopets release out on May 12.
I found some time to submit some proposals to some conferences lately, but in unfortunate news, my summer course on Social Software has been cancelled at SFAI because of low enrollment. I’m still teaching there in the fall and spring, so that is good. I guess now I need to find some sort of research or contract gig to support me until SEPTEMBER 1. If I’m the mercenary you are looking for, please contact me.
