Open Data

Firefox 2 got you blue? You know it's much better, you like it, but there are just a couple things that are different from Firefox 1.5...

For the fearless, there's a step way beyond the "advanced" tab under Firefox's preferences.

There's about:config

Just type that into the address bar, and see way more options than you've ever wanted to see with no documentation whatsoever.

Here I am, a wildly successful web developer, with "wild success" defined as "receiving money," and I want to publish a book review on my blog.

So of course I read the Wikipedia entry on Semantic Web.

And several hours of research later, I'm still not quite sure how to write up a book review, with author and publisher and ISBN and all that exciting information encoded in a way that tiny little people in mechanized bloodhounds (or however search engines and aggregators work) can find it when searching for such info.

This isn't exactly web design related, but it sure as hell is important, so pardon my use of the Agaric Design site to try to get this the widest audience possible.

George Lakoff tries to save humanity with clear language: The Words None Dare Say: Nuclear War.

Agaric coins a phrase. Yeah, it's passive voice and ends in a preposition, but it's ours: "Free software is worth paying for" is our response to a discussion about nonprofit technology needs over at NTEN. Searches of the internet turn up nothing, nada, zip. Inconceivable. So Agaric Design Collective has coined a phrase and written a new Drupal module all in one week.

Free software is worth paying for.

People write Agaric for advice, we might as well share our wisdom (if people ask, it implies we have wisdom, right?)

The first year we did this the arts center used the online bids as starting points for the silent auction bids (and then some of the silent auction items went to a live auction). The volunteers found it organizationally challenging, especially in payment/pickup on the spot.

Drupal, or at any rate the Agaric Design Collective, needs a module that will allow anonymous users to view the source of a node they can't edit, for instance a node with the PHP code input format.

Attaching the source code for the node's content, simply what a user with necessary privileges would see clicking on "edit" would work, as would a "view source" tab.

It seems to me something like this must exist, but I can't find it.

Agaric Design Collective began very initial development on a module that will have us hailed by Drupal developers far and wide, the Drupal Recipe Creator.

That initial development takes the form of the Quick Site Recipe Shell Script Generator, and the fact that it probably still needs explanation after a title that long is a testament to my communication skills.

Again, I'm just absorbing the wonderful discussion...

The USSF is nonhierarchical, more of a gathering than conference

explicitly 2 years ago WSF pushed for regional social forums worldwide

USSF a result

regional committees for US
like seven regions

social forum process: creating a space for people to self-organize
designed to accommodate a lot of people

WSF has had 10,000 to 50,000 participants

been interesting to try to transplant into United States

just a space, does not have its own stances at this time

So I went hookie from NYC DrupalCamp3 to go to the Radical Techies Brunch, an elaborate black-tie affair in the most expensive steak restaurant in New York.

Or maybe it was an apartment with homecooked vegan goodness (plus eggs for an overflow crowd). Whatever.

I contributed litle, but it was great to absorb the discussion...

Take CCK, Views, other essential Drupal modules, get it all working together and put a tarball out. Use a more Debian model, this is our version, and we're only going to release when it's secure and ready

Specifically, I'm in Brooklyn with a bunch of other people who do Drupal.

The only way to even begin to give you a feel for this event is to data dump the introductions.

I do not list names in these notes less out of a deep respect for privacy, but mostly because there is an 97% chance I spelled it wrong.

• Manhattan Neighborhood Network - cable access
  if you're in NY, the NYC Drupal group holds meetings
• Integrated Digital Media Institute at Polytechnic

  'we just switched over to Drupal'

  Noel (our organizer): IDMI has been awesome