Ryan Snyder

I wrote down a bunch of notes about Steve Yegge's OSCON talk titled, How to Ignore Marketing and Become Irrelevant in Two Easy Steps. Rather than reading my notes, watch the talk for yourself! His slideshow didn't work, but he gave a fantastic speech regardless.

Looking back, I'm really glad I didn't spend the money to go to OSCON - I'm glad I was sponsored by OCP to go. Why? $700 was a little much for this conference. And we got the non-profit discount. Let me explain...

I really dug being around a bunch of geeks. I loved manning the PDXPHP booth in between sessions. And the keynotes rocked.

Marcel Molina, 37 Signals, Now a Rails Core Developer

Most people are not using S3 to its fullest potential.
Data is exposed via SOAP and REST through distributed service.

The Task @ 37 Signals was to migrate all uploads to S3.
- 5 million files
- 1.5 terrabytes

First: Think about key naming for buckets and filenames.

Stormy Peters, OpenLogic

Open APIs:
- Programming interface to a database that can be accessed over the web
- Some are true APIs and some are just components that plug into your page

Are APIs open?
- No. OpenAPI != OpenSource

2 Types of Data:
- What the user types into a form (account, purchasing, privacy)
- What the user shares (reviews, ratings, comments)

Account information is usually your own.
Shared information is not longer your data.
People can find out a lot about a person by sharing data (delicious feed as an example)

Jimmy Wales
Founder, Wikipedia

WikiaSearch

"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge."

Started with Wikipedia.
With wikia, let's focus on all human knowledge.

Wikia is a completely new organization that is completely separate from Wikipedia

We moved from Brittanica in 1997 to Wikipedia in 2007.

Philosophies:
- Transparecny - openness in systems and algorithms.
- Collaboration - Everyone is able to contribute