The Pulse of Open Source
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Welcome to The Pulse of Open Source. This is the stream of collective consciousness from the open source community on Twitter. Who are we folllowing? Take a look at the who we follow.
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The Pulse of Open Source was inspired by and based upon the code for Pulse of PDX. The site is managed / operated by Raven Zachary and developed / hosted by Michael Richardson (thank you, Michael!).
The initial idea for this site was based on a conversation at Open Source Think Tank 2008 between five Twitter users - Raven Zachary, Ross Turk, Mark Hinkle, Reuven Cohen, and Aaron Fulkerson.
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The stream of collective consciousness from the open source community
John Eckman (jeckman): Dorkbot Boston in the house. Open Hardware in Boston after the Monninites bomb scare ? #bcb3 (http://groups.google.com/group/DorkbotBoston) --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7:27 a.m. PT (permalink)- John Eckman (jeckman): Google's here too, and has a new Cambridge office. Lots of open source folks, python, scripting languages on the jvm, php, javascript --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7:23 a.m. PT (permalink)
- John Eckman (jeckman): Sorry @shimon. Correction to previos tweet. That'd be @shimonrura kicking off BarCamp Boston 3 #bcb3 --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7:22 a.m. PT (permalink)
- John Eckman (jeckman): Seems like a larger number of folks for whom this is their first barcamp. Also a good sign. --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7:20 a.m. PT (permalink)
- John Eckman (jeckman): Also lots of "visualization" folks. Some IAs. Some Ajax and RIA folks. Good mixture --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7:17 a.m. PT (permalink)
- John Eckman (jeckman): Lots and lots of Arduino and Bio-Informatics folks in the room. Never seen so much open hardware interest at a BarCamp in Boston --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7:17 a.m. PT (permalink)
- John Eckman (jeckman): Cool. One of the "Many Eyes" guys is here - visualization. #bcb3 --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7:15 a.m. PT (permalink)
Joe Brockmeier (jzb): Hmmm... the FOSSCamp session I'm in is currently leaderless. --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7:14 a.m. PT (permalink)
Lisa Hoover (lisah): Waiting to hear how people like FF3 RC1... --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7:11 a.m. PT (permalink)
Aaron Fulkerson (Roebot): @igigorik actually I think my login problem was that I already had an account and I was trying to create another account with same email... --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7:09 a.m. PT (permalink)- Lisa Hoover (lisah): At sons' football games. --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 6:51 a.m. PT (permalink)
Stephen O'Grady (sogrady): Az just chewed off the earpiece of my V-Moda headset and ran off with it. fortunately, in this enclosed space her quickness is nullified. --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 6:46 a.m. PT (permalink)
Shelly Milam (shellynoel): off for a quick 15 miler --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 6:28 a.m. PT (permalink)- John Eckman (jeckman): At #bcb3 trying to fix a bug in wpbook since I might present on it later --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 6:26 a.m. PT (permalink)
- Lisa Hoover (lisah): @jennifercloer Um, yes. He does not hurt the eyes. :-) --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 6:02 a.m. PT (permalink)
bobsutor (bobsutor): Saturday, time for Little League and then maybe that jackhammer. --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 5:46 a.m. PT (permalink)
Mike Maney (the_spinmd): @jzb @webmink also, if story is neg & accurate, points to actual biz problem rather than pr not spinning --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 5:43 a.m. PT (permalink)- Mike Maney (the_spinmd): @jzb @webmink doesn't mean they failed, means the connection is broken; good pr pros report the neg to get it fixed --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 5:40 a.m. PT (permalink)
Simon Phipps (webmink): @jzb They include the negative stories as links, but never comment on them or indicate them in the metrics. So it seems everyone loves us. --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 5:37 a.m. PT (permalink)- Joe Brockmeier (jzb): Break time at #FOSSCamp. Email time. Good #openSUSE representation at FOSSCamp... glad to see so many SUSEs here. --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 5:17 a.m. PT (permalink)
- Joe Brockmeier (jzb): @lisah Can't really help it though, I prefer the crunchy keyboards... --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 5:10 a.m. PT (permalink)
- Joe Brockmeier (jzb): @webmink do you expect the PR folks to include any articles in the round-up that are overwhelmingly negative? That might mean they failed. --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 5:09 a.m. PT (permalink)
Matthew Langham (silentpenguin): Updates my son's PSP firmware to 3.95 - should I be looking at homebrew? Why? --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 4:43 a.m. PT (permalink)- Matthew Langham (silentpenguin): Shopping spree - Strawberries, fresh asparagus and the usual weekend stuff --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 4:43 a.m. PT (permalink)
jimjag (jimjag): Most probably not a lot of time to twitter today - MSB BBF 2nite: http://tinyurl.com/4d4hld --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 4:24 a.m. PT (permalink)- Simon Phipps (webmink): How come the PR round-up of the week is always ragingly positive? --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 4:13 a.m. PT (permalink)
Nat Friedman (natfriedman): landed in munich. everything is german here --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 4:11 a.m. PT (permalink)- Mike Maney (the_spinmd): saw saving sarah marshall last night; well-done movie --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 4:06 a.m. PT (permalink)
Jim Grisanzio (jimgris): Time to bring in more foreigners http://tinyurl.com/6pgp6q --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 3:12 a.m. PT (permalink)- Nat Friedman (natfriedman): o zurich --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 2:47 a.m. PT (permalink)
- Joe Brockmeier (jzb): Talking about PackageKit in Prague at #FOSSCamp. Good discussion. --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 2:45 a.m. PT (permalink)
- Simon Phipps (webmink): SunMink blog: links for 2008-05-17:
Red Hat Magazine | Open source project: OpenJDK Inf.. http://tinyurl.com/6kw2ok --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 2:15 a.m. PT (permalink)
Tantek Çelik (t): introducing the Canadians (@poshy & @ryanmcminn) to Sparky's. --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 2:06 a.m. PT (permalink)- Jim Grisanzio (jimgris): Yelled at some kids today -- in Japanese -- to stop destroying a freshly planted tree in a park. They were shocked. Then they ran away. --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 1:56 a.m. PT (permalink)
- Aaron Fulkerson (Roebot): Marbled rainbow iceberg: http://is.gd/hOt --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 1:01 a.m. PT (permalink)
- Aaron Fulkerson (Roebot): New blog post: The Anatomy of a Gummy Bear by Jason Freeny http://tinyurl.com/6k4yfq --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 12:51 a.m. PT (permalink)
- Tantek Çelik (t): suddenly craving organic english draft cider, rosé, framboise, or pomme but none to b found. settling for a single malt. --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 12:25 a.m. PT (permalink)
Tim Bray (timbray): Urgh... 2K+ followers and I *still* don't know what it means. --posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 12:01 a.m. PT (permalink)
Ryan Stewart (ryanstewart): Landed in Beijing. I'm kind of afraid to breathe. Everything is smoggy but the terrain coming in was really cool. --posted Friday, May 16, 2008 at 11:51 p.m. PT (permalink)
Alex King (alexkingorg): ActiveCollab .7 (free, open source) has the feature that I want in Basecamp: tags for messages. Time to switch? --posted Friday, May 16, 2008 at 11:47 p.m. PT (permalink)- Aaron Fulkerson (Roebot): trying to register at AideRSS. Only error I get is: "Uh oh, we found some problems with information you provided." What is it?!!? --posted Friday, May 16, 2008 at 11:45 p.m. PT (permalink)
- Tantek Çelik (t): According to Google maps that's 17 minutes away. I'll be there in 10. --posted Friday, May 16, 2008 at 11:34 p.m. PT (permalink)
- Alex King (alexkingorg): Set up a CRON job to bounce apache and memcached every 10 minutes (memcached keeps dying strangely). Fun Friday night. --posted Friday, May 16, 2008 at 11:07 p.m. PT (permalink)
- Aaron Fulkerson (Roebot): I just logged into facebook for the first time in a month. I don't see the point of it. --posted Friday, May 16, 2008 at 10:48 p.m. PT (permalink)
- Tantek Çelik (t): today's external date time dependent next actions completed. time to change, eat, and join the @trammell - in - SF - versary! --posted Friday, May 16, 2008 at 10:28 p.m. PT (permalink)
Jennifer Cloer (jennifercloer): finally saw iron man. I luv Robert Downey --posted Friday, May 16, 2008 at 10:22 p.m. PT (permalink)- Aaron Fulkerson (Roebot): HOLY SHIT I just realized that MindTouch Deki Wiki will be linked to off the default install page of Firefox3 in just a few short weeks... --posted Friday, May 16, 2008 at 9:53 p.m. PT (permalink)
- Aaron Fulkerson (Roebot): Just installed FF3 RC1. I love the new robot. It would be cooler if it were a robot rabbit. --posted Friday, May 16, 2008 at 9:52 p.m. PT (permalink)
- Aaron Fulkerson (Roebot): Retweeting @chesh2000pro: Word! Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is now available: http://tinyurl.com/5ht795 --posted Friday, May 16, 2008 at 9:48 p.m. PT (permalink)
- Tantek Çelik (t): Spiderman donated via @spunkygidget who is running to help fight leukemia. You should too: http://www.active.com/donate/tntwaak/ABaxley --posted Friday, May 16, 2008 at 9:43 p.m. PT (permalink)
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