OSCON Report The following was posted by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via the Jabber DevZone web site (http://dev.jabber.org/): As mentioned in the preview, this year's O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON for short) included five talks on Jabber, as well as a Birds of a Feather session. That's a big increase over last year (zero talks, one BOF), and makes me wonder if next year we might be able to convince our friends at O'Reilly to include a whole Jabber track. I suppose we'll have to see what cool stuff people develop with Jabber over the next six months or so to determine whether a Jabber track is feasible. In general the Jabber talks were well-attended, and I was happy to see different people showing up for each talk (not just the same old Jabber groupies :). Unfortunately I was unable to attend Eric Muphy's talk on Jabberzilla, though word has it that went well, too. The talks by Michael Bauer (filling in for Webb Interactive CEO Perry Evans) and your trusty correspondent (filling in for Michael on Friday) were more general in nature, giving people an overview of the project. I especially enjoyed the sessions run by independents DJ Adams and Piers Harding (mainly on XML-RPC and SOAP over Jabber) and by Carlos de la Guardia of Mexico's Aldea Systems, since they gave attendees a good sense of practical applications that can be developed with Jabber. It strikes me that we need a "case studies" page on the jabber.org website to highlight projects like this. Since I was working the Jabber Inc. booth most of the time, I also got a good sense of what people are thinking about Jabber and how they are using it in their own projects. The top three questions were: (1) What's this Jabber stuff I keep hearing about? (2) How the heck does Jabber Inc. plan to make money? (3) This IM stuff is cool, so what are you going to do next? I'm not sure that we have firm answers to the last question, but I had fun telling folks about some of the cool things that are cooking in the Jabber community. All in all it was a productive convention from the Jabber perspective. Now it's on to JabberCon! http://jabber.org/?oid=1907 _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
