| I was supposed to speak at the One course source open source conference in San Diego this coming Wednesday and Thursday. My talk was scheduled on Thursday the 29th. The conference wasn't covering travel expenses, so I booked my own tickets in early January to get a decent price.
Last week while I was searching for places to stay in San Diego, Stoyan told me that the conference had been cancelled, however I'd received no notice from the organisers. I checked my email, my spam folder, trash can, but could find no notice from them, so I emailed them asking what the status was. They then responded saying that the conference had been cancelled and they were sorry that I wasn't informed.
The conference website has also not been updated, so anyone visiting would think that it's still on.
So I tried to get my ticket cancelled, but American Airlines tells me that the cancellation charges are more than the value of the ticket, so it makes no sense for me to cancel them. I'm now at a loss for what to do. There's nothing for me to do in San Diego, but I've already paid for the tickets.
I don't know if these people make it a habit or not of doing this to their speakers, but I'd advise others to stay away from them. I've never had such an experience with a conference before.
Update: American Airlines called back this morning saying that they'll make an exception in this case. | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment   |
| | Looks like the linuxsymposium conference in Ottawa doesn't cover accommodation and travel costs for speakers. This could be a problem. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| My talk submission for Velocity 2008 was rejected. Looks like I might have some time to travel at towards the end of June.
If you're in the area at the time, you should totally go and watch Stoyan talk. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| Yaay, two of my talks got accepted at foss.in.
The first is on Hacking YUI, so if you're someone who uses YUI in your apps, and think that you have something you need to get in there, this talk is for you. To get started, check out the project on sourceforge, join the mailing list, and the IRC chatroom.
The second is about writing ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) ayttm plugins. Ayttm is a project that I've long been associated with, and I've worked very closely with the plugin architecture, tuning it a lot to clean up the interfaces and just make writing plugins easier. You should attend this talk if you want to become an ayttm dev, or if you think you can offer suggestions on our plugin implementation.
So yeah, see you there. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| I'm now sitting in the drupal podcast session. There's 7 people on the panel doing the podcast, Jeff Robbins is talking. He's introducing people right now. Just played a lot of music, which he says is the key to a successful podcast - lots of time spent doing nothing.
Update
There's been various questions and comments so far. They've spoken about adding a donate button on the drupal.org website, and just added a job posting section on the website.
People who've taken notes, and want to post them, or links to them should do so on http://drupal.org/events/oscms2007
Every second person speaking up here is from lullabot.
Ok, now they're talking about documentation, reading the code, and freelance coding in their underwear. Jeff says that php is mostly readable. Many people started in the forums and then moved on to bigger things. This will all be in the podcast anyway, so go listen to it. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| The current talk is on jQuery, again by Steven Wittens. This guy is a good speaker, and even though I still don't think I'll use jQuery yet, he's presented it quite well, and is selling it well.
To me, jQuery looks like a sort of functional interface to the DOM, and that's where he seems to contradict himself. He's brought up mochikit and said that it doesn't make sense because it tries to give javascript a pythonesque feel.
Earlier in the day, the YUI team did a talk on yui. Eric, Jenny and Todd spoke on some of the widgets available. jQuery seems to have a lot more, but I wonder if it supports all grade A browsers.
The Pipes guys spoke after that, and they showed a few examples of pipes that can be built, and the design philosophy behind it. | | comments: 7 comments or Leave a comment |
| | I'm now in a discussion about building community online. We've all formed a circle - sort of - and are discussing what you need to build a community. People are coming up with various thoughts from experience. The standard. People, long threads, guidelines, identity, moderation, etc. Lead by Laura Scott. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| Posting from the opensource CMS summit at the Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale. I'm currently in the Designer Eye talk by Steven Wittens. It's been quite interesting so far. He's spoken about typography, colours, layout and is still going on. The longest talk so far - 1:45 to 4:00pm.
Photos later. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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