http://blogs.osuosl.org/kreneskyp Developed in open source communities. Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:04:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This marks the first beta release of Pydra, a distributed computing framework for python.  While most core features are implemented, at least partially, there are many open tickets in the tracker for bugs and improved features.  While this is not a stable release we felt the project was far enough ... http://blogs.osuosl.org/kreneskyp/2009/09/21/pydra-05-released/ We've been working on Pydra for more about 6 months now and we've come a long way. So where is the project? Pydra is moving closer to a stable release, but there's a lot to finish. We still expect to have something usable, by most people, by ... http://blogs.osuosl.org/kreneskyp/2009/07/20/pydra-status-update-july-09/ Myself and most others at the OSL use screen+irssi to keep our irssi sessions alive and move between locations and computers.  The problem is that we don''t receive notifications of private messages or highlighted messages (messages directed to us in a channel, or keywords) on our remote machines.  The solution ... http://blogs.osuosl.org/kreneskyp/2009/06/02/irssi-notifications-via-xmpp/ The Open Source Lab is organizing a Hackathon (code sprint) at the Open Source Bridge conference, June 17-19th at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland.  We're bringing people together to help out Sunlight Lab's Fifty States Project.  If you're interested in helping promote government openness and transparency, this is your ... http://blogs.osuosl.org/kreneskyp/2009/05/08/hackathon-open-source-bridge/ Google is going to pay students $4,500 to work on some of the coolest open source projects. The OSU OSL is a organization for Google Summer of Code 2009.  After reviewing some great proposals we've made our selections.  Here are the students and the projects they proposed. Pydra Pydra is ... http://blogs.osuosl.org/kreneskyp/2009/04/20/google-summer-of-code-2009/ I've been working on the layout for the new Open Source Lab Blogs site, and came across a problem.  We wanted our front page to be an aggregation of our individual blogs.  It was easy to get the articles aggregated using RSS feeds and FeedWordPress Plugin.  It even sorted ... http://blogs.osuosl.org/kreneskyp/2009/04/06/category-plugin-for-wordpress/ SunlightLabs is holding a content called Apps For America to produce new applications that increase government transparency, openness, and accountability. RepresentMe is my entry into the contest. What RepresentMe (Repme.org) focuses on how well your representatives and senators represent you.  It takes your opinions on bills and issues and ... http://blogs.osuosl.org/kreneskyp/2009/03/30/introducing-representme/ Pydra is a distributed computing or cluster computing framework for Python.  Pydra seeks to provide a solution that is easier to deploy, manage, use than existing projects.  This is on top of providing standard features such as fault tolerance. Pydra was born out of a necessity.  Other projects being developed by ... http://blogs.osuosl.org/kreneskyp/2009/03/29/distributed-computing-with-pydra/ If your website generates useful data a great way to propagate it is by providing widgets. A widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page. By providing widgets, owners of other websites can display a small portion ... http://blogs.osuosl.org/kreneskyp/2009/03/25/building-a-generic-widget-builder/ Facebook, Twitter, and other social media websites, also called the new media, are becoming a major part of our culture. Facebook alone has 175 million active users. They are a means to reach broad audiences and build enthousiasm. This tutorial is part 2 of a series that will focus ... http://blogs.osuosl.org/kreneskyp/2009/03/24/connecting-a-web-application-to-facebook-part-2/