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Did you know that November 14th is GIS Day?
I’ve experimented with PostGIS some, so I’m interested to see what’s going on. Here in Asheville, we apparently observe GIS Day on the 9th, with some stuff going on at AB-Tech.
There’s a talk on open-source GIS, so I’m curious to see if GeoTools or uDig are [...]

At the Codehaus and at JBoss.org, I’ve continually come across Subversion repositories that needed to be split apart or merged, perhaps after converting from CVS. One problem you continually hit, particularly if you’re merging repositories, is the “date order of revisions” bug. Simply stated, if you create a new repository loaded from two [...]

It’s Friday, and we all like having friends, so…

myspace.com/codehaus
myspace.com/jboss_org

And don’t act like you don’t have a MySpace account. You know you do.

We’ve got a bundle of opensource communities all over the place now. Some of them are the opensource arm of an otherwise capitalistic commercial entity:

JBoss.ORG
SugarForge
OpenLaszlo
MySQL.org

Others are non-profit, or not tightly tied to a corporation:

Apache Software Foundation
Codehaus Foundation
OpenQA

None of these should be confused with .nets, such as SourceForge.net or java.net. The .nets of the world [...]

Hat’s off to Guillaume and all the other cool kids who pushed Groovy to a 1.0 release. My original hand-rolled parser is long-gone, but I still wish for the best for these guys.
I think it’s cool, too, that they are having concurrent parties across the globe to celebrate.

Brian Topping had the foresight to bring his digital SLR and document the Oof Uncamp gathering last Tuesday evening. Attendees included some current and ex-ThoughtWorkers (Paul Hammant, Kurt Schrader), some guy from Ning (Brian McCallister), a cow-orker (Pete Royal) and a VP of something-or-another at Yahoo! (Sam Pullara). Plus our intrepid photo-historian, Brian [...]

It has been decided that tonight, 12 September, the Codehaus Oof Uncamp will happen at Zeitgeist, in San Francisco. It’s cash-only, so bring some Benjamins. I’ll buy the first round or two.
Update: 7pm is the time to collide.

My luxurious jet-set lifestyle is taking me to the San Francisco area in a week. September 10th through the 14th, I’ll be in the general area of all things 2.0. I’m truly excited to finally get to meet my coworkers. Yes, I’ve worked for Radar Networks for just about a year now. [...]

Well, I’ve managed to procure both travel and lodging for OSCon in Portland this week. I still don’t actually have a conference pass, but what is life without challenges? If you’re an exhibitor or just a friendly soul who has a spare pass or would like to sponsor me, email bob@ this domain.
I’m [...]

I’m quite pleased to announce that the efforts of Dan Diephouse to get the Codehaus turned into a bonafide non-profit organisation has produced results. Now we are just awaiting certification from the IRS for our tax-exempt status. Paul Brown is our Director of Altruism, and will be coordinating our fund-raising activities. As [...]