PortableApps.com at OSCON 2011 open source convention in Portland This Week

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Submitted by John T. Haller on July 27, 2011 - 12:56pm

OSCON open source convention 2011PortableApps.com is at OSCON this week in Portland, Oregon. Lead developer John T. Haller (that's me) will be hosting a session called Open Source Portable Apps: How and Why to Package Software for USB Drives, Cloud Drives and Mobile Storage on Friday at 11am in room D133. For interested folks, we'll be making the slides available online after the presentation. John will be attending the convention all week and can easily be spotted by looking for the tall guy with a red and white USB flash drive attached to his badge. Hope to see you there!


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But you have a date fail on the front page John.

On topic: good luck over there, and have a pleasant trip.

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Gord Caswell

July 27, 2011 - 9:52pm

As do I. I hope someone takes a video of it, as I won't be able to watch it live.

Thanks for the link, but what is the name of the video with John talking at Oscon? I can only download so much videos, so I just wanted to know what video he is. I thought that link was linking directly to the video of PortableApps. I did get the one that Jono Bacon did, so thanks for the link anyway!

Bradley Eaton
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I've been watching the OSCON site, and I see that quite a lot of presenters have posted their slides online.
Were you going to post your slides there, or is there another place that you are going to make them available?
Thanks

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Would be good to see them, video's not so important for me (unless, of course, you've got the really good sort of slides with minimal text, so you need to have the audio to make head or tail of the slides)

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NathanJ79

September 4, 2011 - 9:52pm

I found this...

http://www.youtube.com/user/OreillyMedia

...but nothing with John T. Haller or PortableApps or "Open Source Portable Apps". Weak.

And the real advantage of video, over slides or an interview transcript, is being able to see and hear the person speak. How they speak, the emotion they put into their words, how they carry themselves. It tells more than slides and transcripts can. It's kind of hard to explain, but there is more there. The other day, I saw an interview with American horror/suspense author Dean Koontz on Facebook, answering questions posted to Barnes & Noble's Facebook fan page. I've read over 30 of this guy's books over the past 17 years, but I've never heard him speak, so that was interesting. It's also why it's so easy to blast the iPhone for whatever reason, but to see Steve Jobs unveil one and talk about it, it's exciting because he's the device's biggest fan, and he knows what he's talking about. (As opposed to watching Peter Molyneux... Microsoft's Kinect is neat, but I'm still waiting on Natal...)

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solanus

September 8, 2011 - 11:02am

in regards to the video - but the slides definitely exist, they just haven't been posted.

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