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TiddlyRose

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:09:17 GMT

TiddlyRose was an informal meet-up of TiddlyWiki enthusiasts in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday 23 July 2008. It was timed to coincide with the OSCon 2008 conference, which was being attended by Jeremy Ruston, Phil Whitehouse and Andrew Back.

The event was pretty low key, and we only managed to take two blurry pictures!

OSCon 2008

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:05:47 GMT

OSCon 2008 is an open source conference taking place in Portland, Oregon, from 21-25 July 2008. Our parent company, BT, is sponsoring this event.

We have announced the launch of the new BT open source website at the event, as well as our strategic partnership with FOSSBazaar.

Osmosoftonians Jeremy Ruston, Phil Whitehouse and Andrew Back are present for the sessions from 23-25 July.

Jeremy gave a talk on Open Source Innovation in the Enterprise on Thursday 24th July, and is filling in for his boss (JP Rangaswami) doing the keynote on Friday morning on the subject of Learning from Airports.

We'll also be in Seattle on Saturday 26th, and are planning a TiddlyWiki meetup there called TiddlyPac. Click on the link to find out more!

Welcome

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:01:17 GMT

Osmosoft is the open source innovation arm of BT. We're a small team of techies that have a passion for open source software, with our main focus being on the TiddlyWiki product.

We have an Osmosoft twitter feed and a video channel on Vimeo.

Latest news!

Osmosoft is attending, and presenting at, OSCon 2008. We've also organised TiddlyWiki meet-ups in Portland and Seattle - everyone is welcome to join us!

OpenTech 2008 took place on 5 July 2008, and we ran a competition as part of the event. Find out more.

TiddlyWest took place in San Francisco on 18 June 2008 - photos, videos, links and minutes can be seen here.

Meet the team

You can follow our work by subscribing to our individual blogs or, if you prefer, read just the Osmosoft-related blog entries.

ccTiddly

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:17:00 GMT

ccTiddly is a server-side adaptation of TiddlyWiki originally created by TiddlyWiki community member Matthew So.

Osmosoftonian Simon McManus has been collaborating with Matthew to continue the development of ccTiddly. The code continues to be free and open, and anyone is welcome to download a copy to run on their own servers.

We are also hosting a version of ccTiddly for our colleagues at BT to use. If you work for BT and would like a workspace set up for you, you can visit our ccTiddly homepage to set up an account, or contact Simon at simon@osmosoft.com.

If you're interested in installing ccTiddly on your own server, details are on the the ccTiddly page at TiddlyWiki.org. There is also a Google user group and updates are periodically mentioned on Simon's blog and Matthew's blog.

Events

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:35:00 GMT

We frequently attend, sponsor or host public events. If you are interested in meeting us to talk about our open source projects, or have something you'd like to share with us, seeking us out at events is a good way to make contact.

Open Source Show 'n' Tell

Osmosoft organises frequent Open Source Show 'n' Tell sessions, held in or near our offices in London and everyone is welcome to attend, doubly so if you've got something to show!

Click here to find out about the next event, together with links to videos, photos and demos from previous events.

Upcoming events

Upcoming events where you can find an Osmosoftonian:

OSCon 2008 - Portland, 23-25 July 2008
TiddlyRose - Portland, 23 July 2008
TiddlyPac - Seattle, 26 July 2008
dConstruct 2008 - Brighton, 5 September 2008
Future of Web Apps 2008 - London, 8-10 October 2008

Previous events

You can find demos, videos and resources that have been presented at previous events here:

OpenTech 2008 - London, 5 July 2008
TiddlyWest - San Francisco, 18 June 2008
Supernova 2008 - San Francisco, 16-18 June 2008
BarCamp London 4 - London, 31 May / 1 June 2008
next08 - Hamburg, 15 May 2008
VRM 2008 - Munich, 21/22 April 2008
Future of Web Design - London, 17 April 2008
UKUUG OpenMoko talk - London, 9 April 2008
BlogTalk - Cork, Ireland, 3/4 March 2008
Le Web 3 - Paris, 10/11 December 2007
BT Open Source - Open for Business - London, 31 October 2007
Future of Web Apps 2007 - London, 3-5 October 2007
TiddlyWiki anniversary interview - London, 21 September 2007
BarCampBrighton 2007 - Brighton, 8/9 September 2007
dConstruct 2007 - Brighton, 7 September 2007
Wiki Wednesday - London, 4 July 2007
Supernova 2007 - San Francisco, June 2007

TiddlyPac

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:35:00 GMT

TiddlyPac will be an informal meet-up of TiddlyWiki enthusiasts in Seattle, Washington, on the evening of Saturday 26 July 2008. It follows the OSCon 2008 conference in Portland, which will have been attended by Jeremy Ruston, Phil Whitehouse and Andrew Back. All three will be at TiddlyPac.

The event is open to the public, and all fans of TiddlyWiki are welcome to attend! It'll take place in the Museum Room at the Pike Bar and Brewery. You can find more details and sign up for the event on Upcoming.

And if you're wondering where we got the name TiddlyPac..."Pac" is short for "Pacific North-West". Which is clearly too much of a mouthful by itself. We thought about TiddlyNXNW (counter to SXSW) and TiddlySoft (what with all the Microsofties in the area), but settled on TiddlyPac because it was snappier. So now you know!

Open Source Show 'n' Tell - 4 July 2008

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:29:00 GMT

The most recent Open Source Show 'n' Tell session took place on 4 July 2008. Videos of the sessions can be found on the Osmosoft video channel on Vimeo. Sessions include:

Ben Hood presents...A Server in a Browser
Chris Barrington presents...CloudCamp London
Martin Budden presents...the UnaMesa Disabled Village Children Project
Phil Hawksworth and Paul Downey present...RippleRap at the Personal Democracy Forum
Michael Mahemoff presents...OpenSocial

Open Source Show 'n' Tell

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:22:00 GMT

Osmosoft organises frequent Open Source Show 'n' Tell sessions, held in or near our offices in London and everyone is welcome!

Anyone can give a talk so long as there's an open source angle, and we usually go for drinks afterwards, so please feel free to get in touch if you'd like to come along!

The next Open Source Show 'n' Tell has not yet been scheduled. Check back here later!

Videos and other assets from previous sessions can be found here:

Open Source Show 'n' Tell - 4 July 2008
Open Source Show 'n' Tell - 5 June 2008
Open Source Show 'n' Tell - 8 May 2008
Open Source Show 'n' Tell - 15 November 2007

OpenTech Competition

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:56:00 GMT

The TiddlyWiki OpenTech competition took place on 5 July 2008. Find out the results here.

OpenTech Terms and Conditions

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:55:00 GMT

Here are the Terms and Conditions for the OpenTech 2008 competition, which took place on 5 July 2008:

The competition is open to anyone attending OpenTech 2008, with the exception of employees of BT or Osmosoft.
The prizes are 1 first prize of a BUG, plus 4 modules, 1 second prize of a GP2X Linux powered handheld games console and 1 third prize of a selection of O'Reilly books.
No cash alternative is available for any prize. The Promoter reserves the right to substitute a prize of equivalent or greater value if this is necessary for reasons beyond its control.
To enter, participants must present their submission at the "Venue" room at lunchtime (1pm-2pm) on the day of the OpenTech 2008 event.
The winners will be chosen by an independent panel of judges. Winners will be announced at the end of the Event.
The Judges' decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Entries that do not comply in full with these rules may be disqualified.
The Promoter is British Telecommunications plc, 81 Newgate Street London EC1A 7AJ.

Paul Downey

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:55:00 GMT

Paul's middle name is Sumner, which is important as it distinguishes him from other Paul Downeys.

Paul was BT's Chief Web Services Architect (now Web Kitteh) and represents BT at various organisations including the W3C, OASIS and the WS-I. An inveterate hacker, he passionately believes in the commons, loves the Web and advocates open source given any opportunity. He gained fame in 2007 as the artist behind The Web is Agreement.

If you're popping in to the office, Paul will have a cappuccino with no chocolate and a plain croissant.

blog.whatfettle.com
flickr.com/photos/psd
twitter.com/psd

Osmosoftonian

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:54:00 GMT

Os·mo·soft·on·i·an [oz-muh-sawft-ohn-ee-uhn]

- noun
1. a follower of Osmosoftonianism.

- adjective
2. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Osmosoftonianism or Osmosoftonians.

[Origin: derived from Jeremy Ruston's 1987 metaphor of ideas crossing from one brain to another through the membrane of the user interface]

We also answer to the collective group term "OsmoNauts".

Meet the Osmosoftonians

Future of Web Apps 2007

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:53:00 GMT

3rd-5th October 2007

Several Osmosoftonians attended the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) event from 3rd-5th October 2007. You can find information about the event at the FOWA website.

Phil Whitehouse wrote several blog entries during the event, and uploaded a set of photos to flickr.

Future of Web Apps 2008

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:52:00 GMT

FOWA takes place in London from 8-10 October 2008, although we won't be attending the workshops on the 8th - just the main conference on the 9th and 10th. Hopefully see you there!

dConstruct 2008

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:52:00 GMT

dConstruct is billed as a "affordable one day conference for people designing and building the latest generation of social web applications".

A small delegation of Osmosoftonians will be present.

Open Source Show 'n' Tell - 5 June 2008

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:49:00 GMT

Most of the sessions from the Open Source Show 'n' Tell event on 5 June 2008 were recorded, and they can be seen on the Osmosoft video channel. These videos include:

Adrian De Groot presents...KDE 4 on Open Solaris
Paul J.Adams presents....SQO-OSS
Jeremy Ruston presents...why BT is interested in TiddlyWiki
Phil Hawksworth presents...RippleRap Update
Jon Lister presents...Peoplesoft Offline
Jeremy Ruston presents...New features in Safari
Polecat presents...CladoPeG
Cefn Hoile presents...Semaphore SMS, Power-Pointless, Paraglide mash-ups, and the Scratch Drag'n'Drop programming language
Tony Garnock-Jones presents...JavaScript diff3, merging, and DVCS
Sebastien Canellas-Guille presents...Dojo Framework

In addition, a series of collaborative sketchnotes created at the event can be seen on Flickr.

OpenTech 2008

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:52:00 GMT

We're thrilled to announce that Osmosoft is sponsoring OpenTech this year! As part of this sponsorship we're running a competition at the event.

OpenTech 2008 is taking place in London on 5 July 2008, and is billed as "an informal, low cost one-day conference on technology, society and low-carbon living, featuring Open Source ways of working and technologies that anyone can have a go at".

The competition will see developers pitting their wits against each other in a TiddlyWiki stand-off. Prizes include a BUG (plus four modules) and a GP2X Linux powered handheld games console.

You can find out more about the competition here.

There will also be an OpenTech edition of RippleRap.

Hope to see you there!

TiddlyWest

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:08:00 GMT

TiddlyWest is a TiddlyWiki related event which took place in San Francisco on 18 June 2008.

We co-hosted this event with local TiddlyWiki legend, Eric Shulman, and would like to show our public gratitude to Kevin Welbach and the team at Wharton West for allowing us to host the event on their premises!

TiddlyWiki community member Tony Ching helpfully created these minutes (which we've updated with photos, videos, hyperlinks and names):

Use of TiddlyWiki with Confabb notesharer

Confabb is using TiddlyWiki in conjunction with their conference portal. A user can use Confabb for the agenda and authentication, and download a working copy of RippleRap directly from their site, fully populated with the agenda for that conference.

You can find more here: http://blog.confabb.com/?p=106

Simon McManus on ccTiddly serverside collaborative platform

http://www.tiddlywiki.org/wiki/CcTiddly

A workspace is a TiddlyWiki file
Users can create their own workspaces on the server
Uses can upload files, but open permissions on server
OpenID and LDAP support
Basic User Management
Supports a really super cool hot skin/theme by changing a parameter in the workspace url: ?skin=
There was some talk of atom feeds or syndicating tiddlers in different ways

Eric Shulman of TiddlyTools on Customizing TiddlyWiki

Eric Shulman gave a presentation on customising TiddlyWiki. All the plugins used here can be downloaded from http://www.tiddlytools.com.

Incredibly the presentation was done with TiddlyWiki and not powerpoint or keynote. Tiddlers were slides further extending the tiddler metaphor of mutable microcontent.
He used his tasktimer plugin to time the presentation and ran an activity report/table afterwards.
showed animation plugin shooting out words
TiddlyWiki background image was an attached image as base64 dataURL not a link using his Attach image plugin
Had story viewer plugin with arrows and drop list UI navigation
goto plugin showed incremental search
Customizations in 3 ways
- templates
- stylesheet
- plugins
Eric is a natural TiddlyWikiTeacher
- If you like his clear lucid explanations of TW on this group. He is even better in person. It was a great refresher on TW internals.
- O'Reilly needs too, no wait make that Manning needs to send Eric a book publishing agreement. He can truly author something like TiddlyWiki, the Missing Manual

The presentation was filmed by Greg Wolff of UsaMesa:

Greg Wolff of UsaMesa

Greg Wolff of UsaMesa spoke on their support of TiddlyWiki as a decentralized user empowering tool for social programs:

http://blog.unamesa.org/
They support open source developers furthering the social program goals of communities throughout the world
He highlighted how tiddlywiki served as a frontend to wikispaces to help Hesperian, a traditional print publisher explore the web as a publishing medium: (http://disabledvillagechildren.projects.unamesa.org/) furthering their reach
Jeremy recalled the initial email of 2005 of UnaMesa's offer of support. Be nice to developers and good things grow.

Phil Hawksworth demoing TeamTasks

http://www.hawksworx.com/journal/2007/10/29/teamtasks-version-03-released/

Built on top of TiddlyWiki for task management simplicity
Simple to understand but configurable and customizable.
Applies templates to a tiddlers which the user can configure metadata from the extended fields to cluster tasks in many ways.
Showed a real world team example with many tiddlers as tasks in a sortable table.

Paul Hammant with co-demoer Simon McManus

http://www.paulhammant.com/ of thoughtworks
Showed testing tool Selenium IDE http://selenium.openqa.org/ which can be used for testing websites
SeleniumIDE can create source (ruby, php, python) from recording of actions (testing) on a TiddlyWiki file
The wizardry I saw: Simon opened up SeleniumIDE atop a TiddlyWiki and set it to record.
A new tiddler was made and Selenium IDE picked up these actions to a source file which could be configured to any language.
Rerunning the source started up TiddlyWiki making a tiddler (the test bit)
Paul noted that Selenium IDE would be a great boon to the professional QA folk. I got lost after the RSpec DSL stuff, but everything he said sounded impressive!

Paul Downey on TiddlyProcessing

http://blog.whatfettle.com/2008/05/11/tiddlyprocessing/

John Resig brings processing to js
Paul brings processing into TiddlyWiki. TiddlyProccessing = TiddlyWiki + processing
He notes Simon Baird tweaked his plugin a bit.
With a flourish, Paul dropped processing code from Resig's site for a petalling twirling animation and like magic it showed up undulating in the tiddler
very neat way to marry imaging with TiddlyWiki

Jeremy Ruston demonstrating Zooming Interfaces

Jeremy showcased his incubating work on Zooming Interfaces (note this presentation has also been given in London, and a video can be shown here)

It was a new way for users to view their TiddlyWiki with an Edward Tufte sort of viewpoint
It lowers the barrier of entry for user interactions with accessibility of tiddler history in an intuitively visual way

Contact Juggling from Rich Shumaker

He wowed us with rolls and spins and presented a good example of TiddlyWiki as a vehicle for asset management on a cd
learning contact juggling is difficult to describe in words
video can be set to tiddlers and TiddlyWiki is a framework to house multimedia.

Afterwards...

Phil Whitehouse wrote a blog post after the event, as well as uploading some photos to Flickr.

The great conversations continued in the Thirsty Bear down the street...

Open Source Show 'n' Tell - 8 May 2008

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:14:00 GMT

All of the sessions from the Open Source Show 'n' Tell event on 8 May were recorded, and and are available to view on the Osmosoft's video channel.

These videos include:

Phil Hawksworth presents...TeamTasks
Paul Downey presents...using TeamTasks for Agile
Alexis Richardson presents...the Elastic Server
Jon Lister presents...TiddlyTemplating
Robbie Clutton presents...Call Flow
Paul Downey presents...Test Driven Development
Kerry Buckley presents...Git revision control
Saq Imtiaz presents...UnaMesa
Simon McManus presents...ccTiddly v1.6
Chris Dent presents...TiddlyWeb

In addition, several photos were taken during and after the event, and were uploaded to Flickr by Phil Whitehouse and Paul Downey.

Supernova 2008

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:03:00 GMT

The Supernova conference took place in San Francisco from 16-18 June 2008. BT and Osmosoft sponsored the event.

The Confabb edition of RippleRap was beta-tested at this event.

Phil Whitehouse wrote a blog post about the event. The team also uploaded a number of photos to Flickr.

	Jeremy Ruston jermolene.wordpress.com flickr.com/photos/jermy twitter.com/jermolene
	Andrew Back carrierdetect.com flickr.com/photos/carrierdetect/twitter.com/9600
	Frederik Dohr fnd.lewcid.org/blog twitter.com/fnd
	James Shicuriousjames.wordpress.com flickr.com/photos/jamesshi/twitter.com/dr1ft3r
	Jon Lister jayfresh.wordpress.com flickr.com/photos/jayfresh/twitter.com/jayfresh
	Martin Budden martinswiki.com
	Nick Webb erraticmusings.com flickr.com/photos/nickwebb/twitter.com/nickwebb
	Paul Downey blog.whatfettle.com flickr.com/photos/psd twitter.com/psd
	Phil Hawksworth www.hawksworx.com flickr.com/photos/philhawksworth twitter.com/philhawksworth
	Phil Whitehouse philwhitehouse.blogspot.com flickr.com/photos/philliecasablanca twitter.com/casablanca
	Simon McManus simonmcmanus.com flickr.com/photos/simonmcmanus/twitter.com/simonmcmanus