Return on Intention

 Dave Thomas speaks about Linux and Nagios [18:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Dave Thomas was the last presenter at this years barcamp. He spoke about Linux, open source software, and what the state government is doing with it. I was amazed to hear that the Justice Department where Dave works used any open source software at all. I though that Microsoft and other large companies had the government wrapped up in a little bow, but according to Dave, that is not the case. With the need to cut costs continuing to be important, many state agencies are looking to open source software to help out.

 Daniel Lyons presentation on ReST [19:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

What is ReST? So much less than you’ve heard, according to Daniel Lyons. Daniel is a technologist  and my business partner at seven-gen. His presentation at this years BarCamp was an overview of ReST (Representational state transfer). There are some code snippets and comparisons you may not be able to follow in audio, but a good overview non the less.

 X is for XMPP: An Open Messaging Primer [41:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Jack Moffitt spoke twice at BarCamp this year. On day one he covered Start-ups and you can find that talk here. On the second day he covered XMPP, a messaging protocol he has been looking into and using. This talk covers some groud to get you up and running with XMPP is and can do.

 Hidden Treasures of the Zope 3 Community [34:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Michael Bernstein was the first speaker at Albuquerque BarCamp 3 Day 2. His presentation on the Hidden Treasures of the Zope 3 Community fell victim to some slight first-thing-in-the-morning technical issues, but he recovered well and finished the talk. Michael wrote the book on Zope, but as you will hear, you shouldn’t buy it… it’s now slightly dated.

 Public Media in a Web 2.0 World [34:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Chad Davis is the Director of Content for KNME, the New Mexico PBS station. In his position Chad has had to figure out how Public Media in the traditional space needs to embrace and grow into the new media channels. In this talk, Chad goes over some of the challenges and solutions that KNME has come across in the transition to the digital world.

 Start up and technology by Jack Moffitt [64:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Jack Moffitt presented at BarCamp Albuquerque about start-ups and start-up related ideas. I’m pretty sure that Jack qualifies as a serial entrepreneur. I believe he is on his sixth start-up at the time of this writing. Jack also spoke on day two of BarCamp about xmpp, so stay tuned for that.

In todays Albuquerque Journal, in the Living section – page E5, is an article about the Upgrade NM initiative. Here is my account of the two days:

Upgrade NM 2008 Has Come To A Close With Success
Upgrade NM 2008 – Day 1

What was left out of the article is the address to the temporary site we posted so visitors can see it. You can find the 1st-mile redesign here.