StatusCamp Montreal and Make Your Own StatusCamp!

StatusCampMontreal Evan Speaking

We had a blast during our #StatusWeek in Montreal with the whole StatusNet crew in Montreal. We had two days of internal meetings to set up the future of the project and to actually physically meet all together. There were many outcomes of this meeting which will be talked about more soon.

Cold Montreal from StatusNet Offices

Then on Friday, we launched our new StatusCamp event with StatusCampMontreal. StatusCamps are unconferences to bring developers, users and enthusiasts conneted to StatusNet or the topics around StatusNet and Identi.ca, to discuss and hack on StatusNet. Some 25+ people showed up on a cold day in Montreal to a great event kicked off by Evan talking about status of StatusNet, and outlining a vision for where development and the project is heading.

We then plowed onto many topics, which there is documentation for each of the 12 sessions:

• StatusNet Scalability and Virtual Appliances
• OpenMicroblogging and Federation: OpenMicroblogging (http://openmicroblogging.org)
• Future of the StatusNet API
• Free Network Services: building on status.net or making new service
• Business Adoption and Case Studies: How micro-blogging (aka Status.net) is changing the web & the world
• Social Use of StatusNet: MicroSyntax and Hashtags
• Documentation Sprint: we'll create a list of all the "pain points" that need to be documented
• BOTS: Building Bots and agents that use status.net
  • http://rejon.org/wiki/IDEA_20090906_Identica_Karma
• GeoLocation: how to use it and what can we do with it!
• Privacy and Security
• Third-Party Integration: Plugin, extensions and basic API
• Theming and Branding
• Internationalization: language, translation and cultural interfaces

And, with this successful event, we brewed up a nice recipe so you can start your own StatusCamp in your own city!

StatusCampMontreal Meeting

In 2010, I will be working with everyone in the community to grow and create more StatusCamps around the world to work on StatusNet, and related topics in a nice unconference fashion. Right now, we have interest to create StatusCamps in San Francisco, Paris, and Bangalore, early in 2010. Stay tuned!

We want to get more StatusCamp's started in your city. If you are interested, please stat check out the wiki page, and then please do contact me, jon@status.net.

StatusNet Offices in Montreal at Night