The Third Bit

A Pile o’ Links

Accumulated while on holiday—funny how sometimes I used this blog as an external strap-on memory pack.

• There’s a workshop on “Infrastructure for Research in Collaborative Software Engineering” atFSE in Atlanta this November.  Its aim is “…sharing experiences in evaluating and using open-source, academic, and commercial choices to conduct research, showcase how choices helped accelerate their work, and identify areas for improvement.”
• Emma Jane Hogbin had a few things to say at OSCON this year about women in open source.
• The winner of the 26th Annual Bulwer-Lytton Contest (for best bad opening line) has been announced. My favorite is still a non-winner from the early 1990s: “His eyes were cold and hard, which made them exceptionally difficult to chew.”
• A genetic map of Europe.
• A new CMS for building class websites, cool in part because its creator is 15 years old.
• Toronto Tech Week is Sept 22-26.
• The Linux Foundation has published a guide to kernel development that makes a nice companion to Karl Fogel’s Producing Open Source Software.
• Lambda the Ultimate discusses Ronad Loui’s “In Praise of Scripting” (freely readable draft here).
• Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner is hosting a one-day conference for high school and university students about how much of your life (not) to put online. See also the Chronicle of Higher Education’s article “When Professors Create Social Networks for Classes, Some Students See a ‘Creepy Treehouse’“.
• And finally, a latte printer you can make at home.

More later, including final wrap-up on Google Summer of Code projects.