http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/820

You are invited to this #StatusCheckBRU where we will have beers, free shirts, free StatusNet sign-ups for private beta, stickers, and great discussion fun. Please go to the wiki page and let us know you are coming!

Put it on your calendars and share it with your friends!

StatusCheckBRU, 6 PM

A La Mort Subite
rue Montagne-aux-Herbes Potagères 7
B-1000 Brussels
+32-(0)2-513.13.18

Map: http://ur1.ca/l16z

http://www.alamortsubite.com/

UPDATE: In addition to some other staffers and community members, StatusNet’s own User Experience Designer, @csarven(Sarven Capadisli) will be on-hand at FOSDEM and the StatusCheckBRU.

和希拉里谈话后的合影, originally uploaded by IsaacMao.

I’m in Wellington right now at LinuxConf2010 in Wellington presenting, hacking with @andyfitz and many more of my developer friends. I gave a presentation yesterday updating my StatusNet 2.0 presentation and then having a StatusCheck meetup with about 30-40 people and several getting free StatusNet t-shirts! I have some more for this Saturday’s openday here in Wellington, then I’m back to SF.

If you are in Wellington, lets meetup and talk StatusNet and other projects!

Here is the presentation abstract:

What’s Your StatusNet? (Updates like Identi.ca)

StatusNet is a hosted service for setting your status updates (aka, microblogging), is free software (licensed under the GNU AGPL), and is the software that powers the popular Autonomo.us Free Network Service, Identi.ca. This presentation looks broadly at these three parts of the StatusNet, how to setup YOUROWN.status.net, installing your own instance, and the company which supports the community. As a bonus, this talk introduces StatusNet’s business and how to apply to under-represented free network services. Since this conference is more technical, we will dig deeper into the LAMP-powered StatusNet software, the updated OpenMicroBlogging standard that allows distributed federated microblogging, and will explore the basics of free network services through the eyes of the Franklin Street Declaration.

Here are the slides as a PDF, on Scribd, and then Slideshare.

Here are my sets of slides from presenting lightning talks, then I used my current StatusNet slide deck to talk about StatusNet. I don’t have any slides for the Kids2.0 that Jon, Max and I did! That happened last minute! That session was more popular than my sessions!!!

Here is the StatusNet slides on Scribd.

Here is my slide deck as well from the Open Font Web 1.0 mini-presentaiton I gave for a competition, but Joi, Cory and Sean gave me the shaft in not voting for my presentation.

Open Font Web 1.0

Here is the non-flash version of the DOC and PDF.

And, here is another presentation that Bassel and I put together for the conference. There will be more about this in the new year as well.

MiddleEast Entrepreneurship

Here is the link to the presentation in non-flash google docs.

Bassel wrote a bit more about in arabic, and I encourage you to read his page.

The above documents were more relevant in December, but some projects have already changed hands slightly. The SAMAlab, Bassel and I are now calling the AikiLab, and these projects are actively being pursued from the IDEA2009 stack to SHARISM2010 project.

I just posted over at the StatusNet blog about the big StatusCampSF next week, followed by StatusCheck drinks at Norton’s Vault at 6 PM. Here’s a bit, but please follow to the real blog post to get all the details:

Please come out to the first StatusCamp unconference in SF (#StatusCampSF) to be held on Friday, January 15, 2010 at AwesomeJar from 9 AM until 5 PM. Many of the Status.Net crew will be there including @Evan, @Brion, @Zach, @Nate and myself (@rejon). Come meet us and the many other people who will be in attendance! Since this is an unconference, try to arrive early to shape the schedule for the day including topics you are interested in. If you come only come over for a few sessions, that is ok too! Topics for this first StatusCampSF may range from technical discussions to micro-blogging standards to general software development practices in usage of Status.Net. If you have a great idea, or just want to talk shop, please RSVP to this FREE event by sending your name to http://identi.ca/rejon or email jon@status.net so that we know how much coffee and snacks we need to get.

great gift from my parents to youngens but reminds me, is there a wikipedia for human genealogy? wikiroots?, originally uploaded by rejon.

Much happening. So much in transit. So much necessary to end the year. Happy holidaze #xmas2009!

I’m cleaning out my queues and killing tasks until 2010.

You may or may not see more blog posts prior, but you’ll definitely see some traffic.

NOTE: The above image is a great genealogy that my Mom pulled together with some family and gave to all grandkids on my dad’s side. Very cool!

Check out my other photos up on flickr.

Hi all, round one of Asia travel is nearing completion. I’m ending with a bang at Joi’s NSC1 unconference in the always great Singapore figuring out how to build a startup culture in asia. I believe I’ll be spending much more time here over the next year, so great to build out!

I’ll be in SF for about 24 hours on Sunday Monday which will be nice, do some meetings and have an Overlap Dinner and Party. Then, onto Montreal for the week to powerdrive on StatusNet!

If you are in and/or around Montreal, please come to the first StatusCampMontreal1:

Its not too late to add your topic, name to the wiki, and help spread the status updates about the first ever StatusCamp in Montreal on December 18 from 9 until 5 PM at Station C. As mentioned before, its free and open to the public, just RSVP or email me jon@status.net, or message me @rejon to confirm your attendance please.

Here are a few of the topics upcoming attendees want to discuss:

• Status.Net software + technology
• Social concerns and movements
• Building business off of Status.Net
• APIs
• Hack session
• Free Network Services
• Identi.ca: now what?
• How micro-blogging (aka Status.net) is changing the web & the world
• Using status.net to make change
• Documentation sprint: we’ll create a list of all the “pain points” that need to be documented

Also, I should add that changeMedium will be a part of the StatusNet StatusCamp. Check out this snippet about from Michael:

In that spirit I’m putting out the call to all you folks interested in making change using the medium of change. Status.net has opened their arms and their community. Let’s show up and return the spirit. How can we advance our understanding, contribute to, and apply this medium for change?

Check out ChangeMedium.

My whirlwind bizdev journey I’m now calling #timetraveling is nearly wrapped up. I had to make a quick trip to Delhi from FOSS.in to have a great meeting with a large media organization in India. Then, zoomed off from there to Guangzhou to take my first stab at making the case for analyzing Shanzhai technology culture, and building a legal international movement from this rapid hardware remix culture.

Shanzhai VS. Qi Inside: Making Legal Open Hardware in China –

Here is the non-PDF non-FLASH version of the presentation. Here is the slideshare and scribd version, which I’m having battle here for best quality. You can grab the PPT from them so you can use and spread the Qi.

[ Photo by Adeh ]

There is a tedtochina website which has some info about the TEDxGuangzhou conference and then many more photos. Check the press hits out:

继TEDxShanghai, TEDxXiamen以及TEDxBeijing之后，TEDxGuangzhou亦将于12月5号在广州市大学城广东科学中心举行。本次TEDxGuangzhou 的主题为“创意锦缎——想象无界”（The Fabric of Imagination）。本次的TEDx活动邀请到了来自科学、艺术、建筑、设计等多个领域的专家，分享他们最优秀的创作、思想和故事。

Thanks to CiCi (not CC), for taking good close-ups of me.

The TEDxGuangzhou conference I really appreciated the large 700-1000 person audience at one of the weirdest/coolest buildings in guangzhou that looks like an alien spaceship. Big thanks to the organizers, Lonnie Hodges and all the volunteers who made it real! Big thanks!

Following up from earlier, the above is a pretty good stack I used for first time at FOSS.IN conference today for describing StatusNet, the Company, Service and Software. The crowd received me well, and we will do a FOSS.IN WorkOut at 11 AM tomorrow at the conference venue. If you are around, please stop by for a hack session.

Also, there were some reality distortion tech issues tonite, but we had a load of fun at Jaaga! I made some good slides updating and talking about Creative Commons Case Studies. I went old school instead with just me, the mic, and the audience. It went quite well! Here are the slides:

UPDATE

The above presentation is available, but needs the Droid Sans font if you download the presentation.

View of What’s Your StatusNet? Updates like Identi.ca (NO FLASH necessary).

View of Creative Commons Case Studies, Featuring Identi.ca (NO FLASH necessary).

What’s Your StatusNet? (Updates like Identi.ca)

StatusNet is a hosted service for setting your status updates (aka, microblogging), is free software (licensed under the GNU AGPL), and is the software that powers the popular Autonomo.us Free Network Service, Identi.ca. This presentation looks broadly at these three parts of the StatusNet, how to setup YOUROWN.status.net, installing your own instance, and the company which supports the community. As a bonus, this talk introduces StatusNet’s business model and how to apply to other areas.

I’ll post my slides up once they are done! Bring on the realidad!

And, then tomorrow night at 7:30 PM, I’m giving another new presentation along with German artists at the first ever Creative Commons Salon Bangalore at my friend Freeman’s hacker/art space, Jaaga. Check out a quick excerpt:

Creative Commons Casestudies, Featuring Status.Net

Creative Commons is a well-known nonprofit organization that increases sharing and improves collaboration. Its key tools are six licenses that fit between public domain and complete control, copyright, to give you control over how your work is shared with the world. This presentation explores high level case studies that use Creative Commons licenses to make a successful project. The key featured case study is Status.Net, a new status updating hosted service and open source software that uses Creative Commons licensing for content.

For following all things CC Salon Bangalore, here’s the link.

I’ll get my slides up to both! Asap!