Nice ad, cubespace! That certainly caught my attention.
Okay, the mac's are a bit much on that last one.
Macforce ad ala portland. those are some nice images shots of pdx, check em out at macforce.com
....and we're back
codecamp pdx May 30/31, all!
Donuts? Wha? Outlier solution - couldn't ha pegged that one
Oh, I get it, sponsor ads, nice, folks. The segue was pretty
OMG, OSbridge has dinosaurs, and one of them sounds like Audrey!! Nice bridges, yo.
otbc. Pat, it was good to get to meet you tonight. Nicely presented on the ad.
and portland centerstage
mmm audio evels a little high. fix for #ip6, please? SAO, hey Opensourcery did that site. Check it.
Silicon Flirist, nice ad, really, really sweet.
A discussion of a new tweeter, sweeeeet!
Strangelove live, daaamn. Fridays live at 10pm. Yeah.
What do all these images have in common, care to guess? Occult?
Ha web trends. Nice starwars trailer!
Wilamette MBA, you need some work catering to this audience, methinks, but nice try
When is the next barcamp anyway? May 1 and 2 - see you there
not the red button!!!!!
Tara Horn - how to be a refugee. step one is opression. Burma has 3 out of 4 listed forms, so we begin there. disobedience is the only option if you want to be arrested or interrogated. 6 hours to pack a bag and flee to rangoon. Now you seek asylum in kuala lumpur. This is an excellent, well-delivered presentation. wow, utter silence for the 20 seconds she mentioned the next step being to wait. Attentive folk. nex, there is resettlement, my god, this process is brutal. goodbye to everything you know, hello, life. Welcome to America. Gods. tara@burmacollective.org Go email that woman, better yet, how many refugees do you know personally? Do you think without friends and family here that it is going to anything but lonely?
@lawduck Bridge! renewable bicycle cards, ha. Bridge is just like twitter, pack that info into the table-talk. Hm, that statement was just about demanding that the geeks in the room code something to beat you at bridge. :) hey wait, this is actually a good presentation getting me interested in playing bridge! good job! bridge at opensource bridge anyone?
Personal Telco - Broadband needs. Why is fiber good? Capacity. So we think about what comcast is doing right now. mmmmm k. wireless sucks, at least for capacity. saturation is quick. That last mile of cable does restrict your control. Consuming is boring, be a producer. Think like streets. *applause from the crowd* Non-discrimination, neutral access to the colocation facility. drive down costs, heck yeah. Financing? $450 milling for a fiber network in portland, 1/10th of the cost of a bridge over the columbia. There's huge infrastructure advantages. Oh no! The government shut your slides down! Sing!! "the last slide I do remember" be willing to pay what it costs to provide.
Kate Fossman Writer editor and snarky bitch. sweet, chica. Say what you mean, and say it in a way you yourself understand. Really? Awesome. I'm doin okay then. ;) Okay, you're a little loud, where's our sound equallizer? Mean what you say, have the courage to share your convictions. Be concise! don't add a bunch of superfluous verbiage! "kind of annoying, but whatever" Yes, she is, I like it. Know wha tyou write. research what you don't know. Write form an expert perspective. I hope this set gets posted to youtube, this would be an excellent primer for folks learning to write, and and good way to start out. Hmmmm READ! Oh, I don't read, read anything!!! Vonnegut readers represent!
Chris Sullivan, Ham radio - geeks playing with radios. Hey, what could go wrong? you're supposed to experiment. "scary people, I hope tha tI'm not one of them!" reading from slides, Bad! no biscuit. also, removeyourself from the feedback zone, dude! google latitude all done already by ham radios any 1200 baud modems, please leave. Also, don't be a jerk hey, no more morse code requirements.
Sarah Gilbert Hacking the world with kids without a car. Not a how to guide, This is a meditation. Sweet. reading from slides, no!! Argh, again. well, the meditation part is good. guided meditation complete with adorable children on their bicycles. Okay, physics, hard to have a high speed accident at slow speeds. this is begining to sound like my daily bike commute, extra snacks, a helmet, panniers stocked, bundling and lugging, but is the journey not the point? reuse old tubes it is not a yes or no question. you can do this. take the hills slowly. you will have to walk at some point, its okay. remember your identity. pounding pumping, working. you are a part of something, a community, you may make up gang signs to flash a other parents toting children. look, listen, breathe. it is all there is. you are already here. you are a character in this storybook. you are the change. Thank you to clever cycles. I'm not ready to leave this presentation, it was too meditative. I live that meditation daily, wait, that means I can go back! Hooray!
Jerry Ketel - How to know if you're a narcisist - how do you spot one? seductive until they don't need you. they will be your best friend. we all want to be famous, right? (um, no! thanks.) omg, there's a series of slides on binladen, bush, sam adams!!! Ack - no, well, maybe, oh man.
Selena Deckelmann How to kill 4 chickens in 3 years. Awwwww. :( First lesson, be impulsive. they have then right now. Go, get them! So, let them be free, set them fre ein your backyard. third lesson, keep your schedule. don't change it for the chickens. number 4, leave the door open. step 5, get more chickens *the audience goes wild* Yes, leave them out overnight. Oh no, a racoon!! :( Racoons, not afraid of the flash. leave the chicken for dead, seriously. Go put the chicken back in the coop, and then, um, ew, gross, no, not maggots. oh my god. 9. use your tailpipe. Go for it, leave the door open again. Really, do it. Lastly, trust your husband. do not ask if the chicken was in there. Omg, nicely done, selena. My hat is off to you. Best presentation for delivery tonight. Also, Gross!!
Pete Grillo Okay, from chicken killing to omlettes? holy cow. taking this one off. Okay maybe not, nice omlettes, guy.
Chris, from legion of tech, hi!! Thanks for a great show, and thanks for showing me the front row seat I snagged for the blogging! night all, thank you volunteers!!!!!!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Ignite Portland 5
This is stream of consciousness direct from ignite portland 5, welcome!
Wow, there are now 30 community-driven ignite events now, that's incredible
Thank you, Brady Forrest for the fabulous intro!
Huh, handwriting to letterpress letterforms "all your Garamond are belong to us" How many Garamond revivals are there anyway? Yes, the declaration of independence was done in england, no, I'm not surprised. guess I've going to be a cynic tonight sans serif 150 years old? that's it? german and shirt to the guy who guessed that the newest sans serif came from helvetica Arial and Helvetica comparison, Arial as the bastard child.
Jim and the Story of the unverse, hm, in how many minutes? I'm suddenly reminded of seeing what the bleep in the baghdad Pop! 300,000 years gone, how many to go? Hi petit Prince! :) Exposition of Hubble's discovery that the milky way ain't everything "you are here" Earth with a pointer to Portland, cute. Timelines and Deliverables for the pm's out there. maping - to the brain? did we wind up at zombie apocalypse? Hm, I've seen these star comparison images before in an email. Ha, we are going to what the bleep! The story is pointing us to a reverential appreciation of itself. Hm, the universe really is narcissistic! But wait! we have the ability to reinvent ourselves! Reading from slides, why are we reading?
Aaron, he posts content on the internet.... things like this! Oh good, he's not a lawyer, I'm guessing this is going to be a look at agreements on hosted sites. Hm, I'm right! Terms aren't all the same, that is very true. Facebook terms of service, they can do anything they want with the content you post. Many of the others are very much the same. Are there other services out there withbetter licenses? yes. Blogger flickr and youtube are better, only for the purposes of promiting their own sites. @ahockley twitter
Damin Tarlow Suck or Blow. I have no idea. hey! we're on to real estate Nice image of barack as the yes we can image, oh man, nice photoshop! Have to have Paris Hilton in your presentation. Selena, thanks for the suck or blow image! Looking at pdx 50% more efficient buildings, woo! but can we do better? net zero is what we should aim for. "this is hard" way to go, Damin! It is totally possible. LEED is the company that certifies this We have something already going, we're already doing these things, spready it out! Check out this guy's sites, he's fantastic.
Isaac Potoczny-Jones Talking about computers, specifically the android smart phone. Linux smartphone, yeah! Apple - a step in the right direction, but it is a controlling corp, right? oh, my yes. "fuzzy golden handcuffs of apple" omg. Right, not laughing. serious presentation. Oh xkcd!! Epoch Fail!! Okay, awwwwws from the crowd for the random cute kitten image in the slides. Vera, you would have enjoyed the kitten. back to android. encryption and collaboration, and omg, he really does talk fast. go watch the presentation later! App - meditation words - has google started selling it yet? :) Damn, he talks fast. Like I said,
Dr. Jayson Falkner more xkcd!! Talking about DNA - oh good, he speaks more slowly. DNA - okay, moving on - ooh! on to the interesting 5% and on to an xmen slide. I sense unrest i nthe audience. I don't need a mutation for that. Ha, in the slide, who has an Iphone, so you can look up what he's talking about. It only costs $80,000 to do genetic screening for a single trait, um, and we're at a free talk, what? Hey! Plant dna hacking 101! we were just discussing plant geekery last week, a subject close to my own heart. One more example, criminal investigations.
John Metta, none of us are making enough money, okay, you have my attention. Portland has dude, he's dissing Ignite Portland, and the bleeding heart liberals. This is hillarious. Save the world by domination, allrighty then! Free software, what is that? Dude, this guy is entirely tongue in cheek. So not writing all this down either, we're all laughing too much. a 137 step program? Start with rampant greed. #2, role model. #3, men! yes men! cause women just get stuff done. Not this chick - mother theresa...... go for dick cheney. *laughing* Will shoot you in the face. Hmmmmm, analogy anyone? WWDD? So suddenly, there's a site up! awesome talk, man.
A.L. Venable Why you should be riding the bus. And no, she isn't a trimet affiliate. she lives a car-free life-style. Hm, doritos. Yum. You can also spot pimps on the bus, yay free entertainment! OH pdx has to come from somewhere, right tweeps? Transexuals at 1am, what? virgins? really? oh my. in the morning, totallt straightlaced, try trimet after dark, interesting content goes waaaaay up. I can agree with that. How many intersting people do you see after 12am on trimet? Dude. Don't talk to the driver, dude, its for your own safetey. Find someone to talk to, ride with your eyes and ears open. prepare your fare, don't be a douchebag!! Singing the praises of the realities of trimet, love it. OMG, 4th of july, not even in july.
Hooray, intermission. see you cats in 20. Now, for spell-check.
Wow, there are now 30 community-driven ignite events now, that's incredible
Thank you, Brady Forrest for the fabulous intro!
Huh, handwriting to letterpress letterforms "all your Garamond are belong to us" How many Garamond revivals are there anyway? Yes, the declaration of independence was done in england, no, I'm not surprised. guess I've going to be a cynic tonight sans serif 150 years old? that's it? german and shirt to the guy who guessed that the newest sans serif came from helvetica Arial and Helvetica comparison, Arial as the bastard child.
Jim and the Story of the unverse, hm, in how many minutes? I'm suddenly reminded of seeing what the bleep in the baghdad Pop! 300,000 years gone, how many to go? Hi petit Prince! :) Exposition of Hubble's discovery that the milky way ain't everything "you are here" Earth with a pointer to Portland, cute. Timelines and Deliverables for the pm's out there. maping - to the brain? did we wind up at zombie apocalypse? Hm, I've seen these star comparison images before in an email. Ha, we are going to what the bleep! The story is pointing us to a reverential appreciation of itself. Hm, the universe really is narcissistic! But wait! we have the ability to reinvent ourselves! Reading from slides, why are we reading?
Aaron, he posts content on the internet.... things like this! Oh good, he's not a lawyer, I'm guessing this is going to be a look at agreements on hosted sites. Hm, I'm right! Terms aren't all the same, that is very true. Facebook terms of service, they can do anything they want with the content you post. Many of the others are very much the same. Are there other services out there withbetter licenses? yes. Blogger flickr and youtube are better, only for the purposes of promiting their own sites. @ahockley twitter
Damin Tarlow Suck or Blow. I have no idea. hey! we're on to real estate Nice image of barack as the yes we can image, oh man, nice photoshop! Have to have Paris Hilton in your presentation. Selena, thanks for the suck or blow image! Looking at pdx 50% more efficient buildings, woo! but can we do better? net zero is what we should aim for. "this is hard" way to go, Damin! It is totally possible. LEED is the company that certifies this We have something already going, we're already doing these things, spready it out! Check out this guy's sites, he's fantastic.
Isaac Potoczny-Jones Talking about computers, specifically the android smart phone. Linux smartphone, yeah! Apple - a step in the right direction, but it is a controlling corp, right? oh, my yes. "fuzzy golden handcuffs of apple" omg. Right, not laughing. serious presentation. Oh xkcd!! Epoch Fail!! Okay, awwwwws from the crowd for the random cute kitten image in the slides. Vera, you would have enjoyed the kitten. back to android. encryption and collaboration, and omg, he really does talk fast. go watch the presentation later! App - meditation words - has google started selling it yet? :) Damn, he talks fast. Like I said,
Dr. Jayson Falkner more xkcd!! Talking about DNA - oh good, he speaks more slowly. DNA - okay, moving on - ooh! on to the interesting 5% and on to an xmen slide. I sense unrest i nthe audience. I don't need a mutation for that. Ha, in the slide, who has an Iphone, so you can look up what he's talking about. It only costs $80,000 to do genetic screening for a single trait, um, and we're at a free talk, what? Hey! Plant dna hacking 101! we were just discussing plant geekery last week, a subject close to my own heart. One more example, criminal investigations.
John Metta, none of us are making enough money, okay, you have my attention. Portland has dude, he's dissing Ignite Portland, and the bleeding heart liberals. This is hillarious. Save the world by domination, allrighty then! Free software, what is that? Dude, this guy is entirely tongue in cheek. So not writing all this down either, we're all laughing too much. a 137 step program? Start with rampant greed. #2, role model. #3, men! yes men! cause women just get stuff done. Not this chick - mother theresa...... go for dick cheney. *laughing* Will shoot you in the face. Hmmmmm, analogy anyone? WWDD? So suddenly, there's a site up! awesome talk, man.
A.L. Venable Why you should be riding the bus. And no, she isn't a trimet affiliate. she lives a car-free life-style. Hm, doritos. Yum. You can also spot pimps on the bus, yay free entertainment! OH pdx has to come from somewhere, right tweeps? Transexuals at 1am, what? virgins? really? oh my. in the morning, totallt straightlaced, try trimet after dark, interesting content goes waaaaay up. I can agree with that. How many intersting people do you see after 12am on trimet? Dude. Don't talk to the driver, dude, its for your own safetey. Find someone to talk to, ride with your eyes and ears open. prepare your fare, don't be a douchebag!! Singing the praises of the realities of trimet, love it. OMG, 4th of july, not even in july.
Hooray, intermission. see you cats in 20. Now, for spell-check.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Free, as in cost - Free, as in thoughts
What does it take to start a blog? Just irritation in this instance.
There are any number of blogs out there I look at periodically on the subjects of open source software, linux, freedoms, intellectual property rights, the nitty gritty of DRM, and what some self-proclaimed pirates are doing about some of all of those subjects.
I'm also sure there's already a lot of response to this post both at the page, and in this format. I'm going to write this anyway, because there are some things I just can't fathom.
"No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful."
That is the first. Ideas are free, unless you patent them. Software starts as an idea that someone spent enough time a love on to get to the point of other folks being interested enough to use it. Sometimes there is marketing involved, but sometimes there's just such a good idea that it spreads of its own accord. If it happens in a larger company, like google, hp, toyota, yahoo, that germ of an idea becomes gmail, or chrome, or orkut. Who remembers orkut? Allright, some of you, but I bet more of your recognize Myspace. Sometimes the marketing is excellent, and sometimes it is just such a good idea you can't hold it in. Where did youtube come from? A fantastic idea that became a shared experience.
The catalyst for many folks who use the internet regularly is making that space in your day to surf the web: read friends blogs, check out the myspace of your favorite band, maybe find out who really sang at woodstock. They see an idea, or share an idea, or create an idea through quickly shared experiences. Somewhere in there someone says, this would be better, if! Lo and behold, theres new functionality in a program, or an entirely new program that folks test out and share around if it works well.
Bringing this back to the thought that no software is free, that's true, making software requires input. It requires the cost in creativity to take a tiny idea and transform it into something you'd recognize how to use. Some folks really would do this for free if they never had to pay bills! It can be incredibly satisfying! So where does the idea that software can't be free come from? You pay for a car to drive it, right? You pay for food and gas, and bicycle tires.
What if rather than thinking of software as a consumable, it is a creation?
Take a house for this analogy. It has many rooms, can be exquisite with all the moulding, built-ins, china cabinets, etc. I've seen a number of beautiful houses. But you don't need to buy a house every time you want to fix the gutters. It seems to me many open source software companies operate on this principle. You build something the first time once. Then to add to it or enhance it, you don't need to buy a whole new liscense! That work was already done, why get paid again for work already done? To put the gutters on the house, there is a much smaller cost, which often a larger company will be interested in, because they get that piece quickly. If it is written open source, often once that piece is done, it is free. Yes, it cost money to make it, but it is done!
So why on earth would someone want to be first to foot the cost of a project they could have for free later? Maybe the initial investment is the first company's, but then each successive addition that adds value to that product another company wants is free to the first company. The sucessive companies get what they need, and the first organization gets additional features they didn't have to pay for!
What about projects noone cares about? I hate to say it, but most everything we do anymore is market-driven. If there is enough interest in a project, it will be done, and if there isn't, it might be done, but a lot slower, and on a person's free time. Eventually even ideas started with little investment become big deals if they are well-implemented ideas.
"This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer"
Hm, well, this is true. You can't argue with the truth. :) Or can you! Ask the internet who uses what. Today according to www.w3schools.com, November 2008, 90.6% used Windows, 3.8% Linux, and 5.3% Mac. That's not terribly surprising. Marketing for Apple's products is pretty good, and buying a new pc means Windows is pre-installed and ready to use. The really surprising thing is actually the 3.8% for Linux. Within the last 5 years, Linux went from something only a hard-core geek could use daily to something I showed my grandmother how to use. Why is it grandmothers are always the litmus test? Probably because most of our grandmothers grew up with typewriters rather than blogs.
The key to the above statement is virtually. The computer I'm writing this post from is an example of a Linux laptop. How hard is it to try ubuntu anymore? How many flavors are there really? How hard is it to upgrade your system? What the heck is the difference between Ubuntu and Debian anyway? It used to be only geeks answering those questions. Volunteers here in Portland Oregon in Free Geek's build program can tell you differently. Some of those volunteers are geeks, but they probably weren't when they walked in.
It is because of programs like Free Geek's 24 hour adoption program that they really do help the needy get nerdy, and quickly, too. 24 hours for a free linux machine isn't a lot of time to spend. Even with work and kids, and school, folks are starting to see that they do have options, and those options really can be free. The more folks are interested in using linux, the more development dollars from the larger companies go toward marketing their applications to work on linux. Its working. You can watch movies, stream music, play your ipod, any of this from you linux machine. Which boots faster than a windows machine. Hm, I used to clock them at work for fun. Same machines, one running ubuntu or debian, the other windows xp. Ha! windows lost by a lot (at least double) every time to get to a login.
Before I head off to bed, have you really looked at what you can do for free? Then, once you've looked, have you seen what you can learn for free? It's all out there, waiting for you to find it. Lets see those ideas sparkle into life.
There are any number of blogs out there I look at periodically on the subjects of open source software, linux, freedoms, intellectual property rights, the nitty gritty of DRM, and what some self-proclaimed pirates are doing about some of all of those subjects.
I'm also sure there's already a lot of response to this post both at the page, and in this format. I'm going to write this anyway, because there are some things I just can't fathom.
"No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful."
That is the first. Ideas are free, unless you patent them. Software starts as an idea that someone spent enough time a love on to get to the point of other folks being interested enough to use it. Sometimes there is marketing involved, but sometimes there's just such a good idea that it spreads of its own accord. If it happens in a larger company, like google, hp, toyota, yahoo, that germ of an idea becomes gmail, or chrome, or orkut. Who remembers orkut? Allright, some of you, but I bet more of your recognize Myspace. Sometimes the marketing is excellent, and sometimes it is just such a good idea you can't hold it in. Where did youtube come from? A fantastic idea that became a shared experience.
The catalyst for many folks who use the internet regularly is making that space in your day to surf the web: read friends blogs, check out the myspace of your favorite band, maybe find out who really sang at woodstock. They see an idea, or share an idea, or create an idea through quickly shared experiences. Somewhere in there someone says, this would be better, if! Lo and behold, theres new functionality in a program, or an entirely new program that folks test out and share around if it works well.
Bringing this back to the thought that no software is free, that's true, making software requires input. It requires the cost in creativity to take a tiny idea and transform it into something you'd recognize how to use. Some folks really would do this for free if they never had to pay bills! It can be incredibly satisfying! So where does the idea that software can't be free come from? You pay for a car to drive it, right? You pay for food and gas, and bicycle tires.
What if rather than thinking of software as a consumable, it is a creation?
Take a house for this analogy. It has many rooms, can be exquisite with all the moulding, built-ins, china cabinets, etc. I've seen a number of beautiful houses. But you don't need to buy a house every time you want to fix the gutters. It seems to me many open source software companies operate on this principle. You build something the first time once. Then to add to it or enhance it, you don't need to buy a whole new liscense! That work was already done, why get paid again for work already done? To put the gutters on the house, there is a much smaller cost, which often a larger company will be interested in, because they get that piece quickly. If it is written open source, often once that piece is done, it is free. Yes, it cost money to make it, but it is done!
So why on earth would someone want to be first to foot the cost of a project they could have for free later? Maybe the initial investment is the first company's, but then each successive addition that adds value to that product another company wants is free to the first company. The sucessive companies get what they need, and the first organization gets additional features they didn't have to pay for!
What about projects noone cares about? I hate to say it, but most everything we do anymore is market-driven. If there is enough interest in a project, it will be done, and if there isn't, it might be done, but a lot slower, and on a person's free time. Eventually even ideas started with little investment become big deals if they are well-implemented ideas.
"This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer"
Hm, well, this is true. You can't argue with the truth. :) Or can you! Ask the internet who uses what. Today according to www.w3schools.com, November 2008, 90.6% used Windows, 3.8% Linux, and 5.3% Mac. That's not terribly surprising. Marketing for Apple's products is pretty good, and buying a new pc means Windows is pre-installed and ready to use. The really surprising thing is actually the 3.8% for Linux. Within the last 5 years, Linux went from something only a hard-core geek could use daily to something I showed my grandmother how to use. Why is it grandmothers are always the litmus test? Probably because most of our grandmothers grew up with typewriters rather than blogs.
The key to the above statement is virtually. The computer I'm writing this post from is an example of a Linux laptop. How hard is it to try ubuntu anymore? How many flavors are there really? How hard is it to upgrade your system? What the heck is the difference between Ubuntu and Debian anyway? It used to be only geeks answering those questions. Volunteers here in Portland Oregon in Free Geek's build program can tell you differently. Some of those volunteers are geeks, but they probably weren't when they walked in.
It is because of programs like Free Geek's 24 hour adoption program that they really do help the needy get nerdy, and quickly, too. 24 hours for a free linux machine isn't a lot of time to spend. Even with work and kids, and school, folks are starting to see that they do have options, and those options really can be free. The more folks are interested in using linux, the more development dollars from the larger companies go toward marketing their applications to work on linux. Its working. You can watch movies, stream music, play your ipod, any of this from you linux machine. Which boots faster than a windows machine. Hm, I used to clock them at work for fun. Same machines, one running ubuntu or debian, the other windows xp. Ha! windows lost by a lot (at least double) every time to get to a login.
Before I head off to bed, have you really looked at what you can do for free? Then, once you've looked, have you seen what you can learn for free? It's all out there, waiting for you to find it. Lets see those ideas sparkle into life.
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