StatusReport: StatusNet travels to Portland, Oregon for Federated Social Web Summit, StatusCheck and OSCON!

Hello StatusNet Community! Do you have any plans this evening? Are you in the Portland, Oregon area or close? If you are, come and join us at Henry's Tavern for the StatusCheck event! StatusNet would be more than pleased to discuss the latest happenings with you in person!

Latest updates

The StatusCheck event is tonight, Wednesday July 21, 2010, from 6:00pm until 8:00pm, and it is being held at Henry's Tavern in Portland, Oregon! Everyone is welcome to come and join us for some drinks and great conversation.

The Open Source Conference OSCON 2011 is taking place all this week! Evan Prodromou (CEO and founder of StatusNet) will be contributing to a presentation tonight, entitled Web Services: How Can Open Source Software Compete?, and on Friday July 23rd, he will make another presentation entitled Open Source and the Federated Social Web.

The 11th International Free Software Forum (FISL) has started today and ends July 24th. Jon Phillips (Community Director at StatusNet) will be on location noting. His presentation is entitled "Building an Autonomous Federated Social Web: OStatus, Status.Net, and Identi.ca." This presentation will look at the current problem with relying upon closed walled-garden-like networks like Facebook or Twitter. It then provides a survey of solutions, and provides a route for Free and Open Source Software developers to collaborate and build something based in reality and not just a kickstarter fundraiser.

According to Jon Phillips (Community Director at StatusNet), the Federated Social Web Summit 2010 firmly planted a flag in the ground about concrete steps to keep improving the state of federating social features across the open web. Every participate gave a 5 minute presentation about what they are doing with federation, then we spent the afternoon hacking and whiteboarding together. While many people knew each other, it served as a collaboration and connection point for new friends and companies to work together.

Recent Mentions of StatusNet

StatusNet has been participating in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2010. There are 5 students hacking on StatusNet, mentored by people from StatusNet including Evan Prodromou (CEO and founder of StatusNet). The students are preparing their mid-term progress reports and StatusNet will be posting them as a series of blogs entitled Status Update: Google Summer of Code (GSoC). The first two are already posted Status Update: Google Summer of Code, and Status Update: Google Summer of Code Part 2!

For more of the latest Press mentions for StatusNet, be sure to visit our Press section on our website.

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