WTH: Summary
August 2nd, 2005 by teemowSorry, that I didn’t write close on time. Wifi really sucked on WTH, I couldn’t get a connection anywhere. So there was no way to connect my computer while attending lectures. The schedule was tight and after 10-12 hours of lectures I kept my focus on socializing. There were interesting people all around. We had a lot of fun with the 4 austrian guys right next to our tent. Michael is gentoo ruby maintainer and takes care of the liferea ebuilds, my favorite rss reader.
So lets just dump some links and short stories about the interesting lectures.
Pentabarf by Tim Pritlove and Sven Klemm was very interesting. For me it wasn’t only presenting their conference planning software, it was more a ‘how to create a web2.0 application’. They have a really nice concept and improved GUI. We had a little talking after their presentation about their upcoming decision to refactor the whole system in Ruby.
Openstreetmap - a free wiki world map. There were a lot of great ideas and the project got me very interested. They are looking for developers and volunteers with GPS devices. You can modify the maps on their website using a java applet, but they are also planning to rewrite it in Ruby.
Future Shock - one of the best lectures on the congress. Get the video here.
Search engines internals by Greg Newby was very interesting. He also talked about his work on project gutenberg and why literature has to be free especially now. Literature is kept away from the public domain for 90 years in US, 70 in germany, by default even after the death of the author. This is nonsense, only 1% of the books written 70 years ago are still published. Turn it around, make public domain default after the death of the author and if there are still relatives who would like it to be under copyright they can do so.
There were a lot of security lectures all of them with the same message. Get rid of C’s buffer overflows, integer overflows and string vulnerabilities. There was also some websecurity stuff, let’s get rid of PHP anyway.
Phasing out Unix before 2038-01-19 - became a dylan commercial after complaining about c and unix. Sure, you are right with going on and phasing out ‘c’, but is dylan the right solution? Got the prize for the catchiest phrase on the conference.
C64 - lots of stuff for the old ‘brotkasten’ held by Stephan Humer, one of the authors of go64 the only german c64 print magazine.
On the second day Molly found out that there are cbs DJs from Den Haag on the camping site. They played really good minimal, eighties, video console, synthie electronics the whole weekend.
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