#indiewebcamp 2012-06-05

2012-06-05 UTC
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Nadreck
Ping? Anyone around that's comfortable with IndieAuth troubleshooting?
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aaronpk
indeed
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aaronpk
Nadreck: happy to help!
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Nadreck
Awesome :)
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Nadreck
I tried setting up IndieAuth using the text example from the indieauth site, but when it tries to authenticate, it throws an error.
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aaronpk
alright, what's the error?
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Nadreck
"You just authenticated as Nadreck but your website linked to https://twitter.com/nadreck"
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aaronpk
odd, I wonder if it's case sensitive
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Nadreck
Curious, myself. I tried adjusting the link, revoking the twitter app, and retrying.. same error.
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aaronpk
tantek and I were talking about this. we came up with a better fallback strategy as well to avoid this kind of error to begin with
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aaronpk
hm I still see twitter.com/Nadreck on your web page. Let me check if it's doing a case sensitive comparison
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aaronpk
ah yes I think it is
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Nadreck
Interesting :)
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aaronpk
my bad. I'll fix it, one sec
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Nadreck
Awesome, thanks! Trying to sign up for IndieWebCamp, as it's a topic I care a fair bit about.
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aaronpk
good to hear!
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aaronpk
alright try now!
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Nadreck
Works now, fantastic :)
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aaronpk
great!!
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tantek
welcome Nadreck
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Nadreck
Danke tantek :). Actually it was your conversation on #mozpdx that reminded me to go sign up.
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tantek
oh awesome!
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Nadreck
It occurs to me that it'd be pretty excellent to ping some of the #openbadges and #identity/persona folks to see if they're interested.
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aaronpk
oh yea, definitely see if you can get some of the persona guys to come!
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tantek
aaronpk - case sensitive comparing of URL paths is correct
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tantek
the key is that the IndieAuth server needs to be handling redirects
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aaronpk
hm, it wasn't the URL that was being compared case-sensitively, it was the verification after you signed in as a twitter user
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tantek
Nadreck - I see you're consistently using twitter.com/Nadreck so I'm not sure how it could have been a case sensitivity issue
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aaronpk
twitter probably returns the username "nadreck" after authentication
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tantek
Nadreck - *please* ping some of the moz identity folks - so far none of them have stepped forward saying they've implemented browserID on their own site
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aaronpk
(wildly guessing)
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tantek
would love to see someone actually show openbadges working on an indie basis
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tantek
e.g. any person being able to give out badges to any other person
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Nadreck
Yeah, it was definitely odd. That said, looking at the error, it did look like it was getting parsed into lowercase at some point
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tantek
(no need to make it org-centric)
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Nadreck
There are a few folks that have mentioned trying to get it working for some projects, such as implementing OB for the Ann Arbor Maker Faire.
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Nadreck
It's worth noting: I'm just interested and lurking in those groups, I'm not actually a mozillian currently, so I'm not sure how much clout I'll have, but I'll bring it up on the mailers.
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tantek
Nadreck - excellent - please do. There's not enough people and time to cover all the mailers - all help appreciated.
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Nadreck
Will do! Anything else you could use a hand with?
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nadreck.me
created /User:Nadreck (+164) "Created page with "== Nabil Maynard == Infovore, with a focus on social computing, identity, and online community user experiences. * http://nadreck.me * http://www.criticalgames.com""
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Nadreck
Jeez Loqi, gotta tell all my secrets?
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Loqi
is done
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tantek.com
edited /2012 (+146) "/* to-do */ move Andi's google doc to be a to-do item to process"
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tantek.com
edited /To-do (-223) "move Andi's googledoc to be processed on the 2012 to-do list"
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nadreck.me
edited /2012/Guest_List (+202) "/* Creators */"
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tantek.com
edited /2012/Planning (-126) "2011 planners listed on 2011 page"
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tantek.com
edited /Planning (+0) "update redirect"
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tantek.com
edited /2011/Planning (+108) "l planners, sort family-name, link to current planning page!"
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tantek
Nadreck - indeed! IndieWebCamp is completely self-organized/run by a small group of planners and volunteers - sign-up on the volunteer page: http://indiewebcamp.com/Planning#volunteers
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tantek
Aaronpk that reminds me - did you capture which specific food/snack that Urban Airship wanted to sponsor?
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tantek
also - where is the "what links here?" link on pages?
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aaronpk
I didn't get back to them, did you reply to her?
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tantek
ok I'll follow-up with her
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tantek
and figure out a specific slot
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aaronpk
I don't mind coordinating with her, just didn't want to double-reply if you already had
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tantek
oh ok - no I had not replied
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tantek
aaronpk - does this mediawiki skin not show the "what links here?" links?
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tantek
to see all the pages that link to a page?
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tantek
on mediawiki
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aaronpk
oh the "toolbox" block is hidden
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aaronpk
strange, I don't see it commented out or anything
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aaronpk
ah well
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tantek
no toolbox?
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Nadreck
Hm, which is correct? On the main page, it says the venue is being provided by Geoloqi, but on the Planning page, the venue is listed as Urban Airship.
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tantek.com
edited /2011/Guest_List (+56) "updated the check out the current page header at the top"
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tantek.com
edited /2011/Guest_List (+10) "/* Official Guest List */ 2011 links to 2011"
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tantek
Nadreck - that's helpful (no, seriously :) )
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Nadreck
is helpful! Sometimes in real life!
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Nadreck
Putting together an email to send out to openbadges, but I suppose it's not really needed to list the venue.
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tantek.com
edited /2012/Planning (+27) "update venu"
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tantek
Nadreck - it's useful to know anything you see on the website which is confusing or doesn't make sense.
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tantek
welcome dascher
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dascher
huh, thx.
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Nadreck
Will do -- that's actually part of what I do for a living (software test engineer, working on games and websites)
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tantek
Nadreck - and if no one responds, feel free to add such issues/problems to the 2012 to-do list
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Nadreck
Can do, will do
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tantek
er, at least inbo
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tantek
thanks! much appreciated
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tantek
we'll try to be responsive
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barnabywalters
anyone here with experience implementing a PuSH publisher client who could give me a bit of help? I'm having difficulties
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barnabywalters
tantek: did you do anything special to get your activitystream working as a remote subscription on identica?
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barnabywalters
I'm having real trouble and the people on #statusnet haven't been able to help much
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tantek
I added PuSH support with hub discovery from my home page.
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barnabywalters
I thought that might be it — I can't seem to get that working properly either, but now I've got a nice valid stream I'll have another crack at it
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@pkbot
mentioned in #indiewebcamp 2012-05-28 http://t.co/ENzTcfVq [Google Alerts]
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barnabywalters
the other thing I can't figure out is how you get your bio information shown on the 'confirm subscription' page
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barnabywalters
some of it seems to be parsed out of your homepage, I can't figure out where the photo comes from though
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tantek
barnabywalters - these are the two key lines in my home page:
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tantek
<link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/>
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tantek
<link rel="updates alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="updates.atom"/>
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barnabywalters
thanks — I think it's the backend ping that I need to get working properly
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tantek
they're getting the bio information from my hCard
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tantek
on my home page
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barnabywalters
yep, but it's not working for me
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barnabywalters
although I just checked and apparently my hcard isn't valid
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tantek
a-ha!
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barnabywalters
…for reasons that I can't quite fathom. Apparently I have multiple fns…
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tantek
that's fixed in microformats-2
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tantek
you can have multiple of any property there
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barnabywalters
ah, that's good to know
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barnabywalters
I fixed it anyway — it was hiding in one of the links
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tantek
but for hCard1, just one fn
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tantek
in microformats-2 it's "p-name" anyway, not fn
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barnabywalters
p for preferred?
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barnabywalters
identica's parsing still isn't working — picks up nothing apart from the name for me, and disjointed info for you: http://public.waterpigs.co.uk/images/ttk-identica.png
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tantek
p meaning generic "property" - the microformats-2 class names all have short prefixes indicating what they mean/do: http://ufs.cc/w/microformats-2
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barnabywalters
that looks great
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barnabywalters
even more straightforward than the current classes
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tantek
thanks!
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barnabywalters
I doubt identica are using microformats-2, but I'll implement them and see if that makes any difference
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tantek
hey that's a good point, we should ask evanpro about microformats-2 support
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tantek
if you see him in the channel (he's here from time to time) ping him!
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barnabywalters
the namespacing aspecy is particularly useful — I did end up with clashing class names previously
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tantek
it's not really namespacing - it's just cheap prefixes
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tantek
namespace implies some sort of conscious partition, typically associated with a URL (especially in a web context)
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tantek
but yes, the prefixing is a key part of microformats-2 and helps in a number of ways, from authoring to parsing
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barnabywalters
true (thinking more in terms of php namespacing, which no-one uses anyway)
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singpolyma
I'm still uncomfortable about the weird prefix hacks in mf2, but other people seem to like it
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barnabywalters
well, it hasn't changed the way identica parses my hcard, so I'm going to give up on that and try to get PuSH working
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barnabywalters
singpolyma: referring to a prefix in particular or the prefixes in general?
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singpolyma
barnabywalters: the way the type information leaks into the markup (such as with "p-") feels like bad markup to me, personally
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singpolyma
because then I end up having semantic class names *and* microformats-specific class names
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barnabywalters
do you prefer the class-value pattern?
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singpolyma
I'm not sure what you mean by that.
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singpolyma
I like existing microformats (most of them), because they use existing page semantics
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barnabywalters
I had it the wrong way round :)
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barnabywalters
that's where I had a problem — my .note was for use in a different place to the hcard .note, so I had to work around it
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singpolyma
oh, the value-class-pattern is orthogonal. not related to the question of properties and semantics
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singpolyma
why did you have to work around it? you couldn't change the classname?
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barnabywalters
that would have been a different sort of work around
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singpolyma
I've sort of reached a point where I consider the microformats specs as authoratative as the HTML specs. I reference both sets of specs equally when deciding what markup should be on a page I'm designing
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singpolyma
So, if I see a piece of markup that uses microformats-defined semantics in a way that differs from the spec, I consider that "wrong" in the same way that deviating from the HTML-defined semanitcs is wrong
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singpolyma
normally
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singpolyma
sort of like the way LaTeX extends TeX
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barnabywalters
in my case, I considered using 'note' to refer to an activitystream note had higher priority than using it to refer to an hcard note
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singpolyma
hmm... interesting. yeah, the activitystreams people should have done a better job of that sort of thing, but when I suggested it (repeatedly) I was told they weren't interested in HTML-based representations
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singpolyma
and then, like a year later, MySpace needed them
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singpolyma
but whatever
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barnabywalters
I must say I'm not keen on the naming of the 'note' object type
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barnabywalters
in fact it took me a while to figure out what the difference was between 'note', 'status' and 'update'
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singpolyma
activitystreams sort of became a beast
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singpolyma
design-by-comitte
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barnabywalters
so much so I wrote a blog post about it to save other people the trouble :|
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Loqi
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barnabywalters
is there any string that Loqi won't randomly interpret?
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Loqi
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Loqi
singpolyma has 2 karma
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tilgovi
that's not right....
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tilgovi
bot grabbing enter/exit as a +1-able action?
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tilgovi
It looks like I won't make it to iwc :(
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barnabywalters
I wonder if you can get negative karma?
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tilgovi
I'm going to leave myself on the wiki and try to add some stuff, lurk around here and there during, but I have to leave portland before :(
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tilgovi
i'll be at OSB, though, I think.
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tilgovi
poor planning on my part re a house guest
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barnabywalters
I'm off now, thanks for the help
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tantek
scrolls up
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tantek
tilgovi - sorry to hear that you won't make it to IndieWebCamp
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tantek
since we are going to need accurate counts for capacity etc., I'll create a regrets section
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tantek
or will you be able to participate remotely?
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tantek
via this channel etc.
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tilgovi
tantek: I can probably participate in realtime for large parts
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tantek
great
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Alphi
is there going to be an option to attend remotely?
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tantek
Alphi - you're participating remotely right now :)
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tantek
but do you mean like video etc.? I'm not sure, perhaps Aaronpk could answer
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tantek
maybe we could set up a Google Plus hangout?
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aaronpk
that could be fun!
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tantek.com
edited /2012/Guest_List (+156) "/* Official Guest List */ create remote participants section with Tilgovi who can't make it person"
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tilgovi
+1 tantek
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tilgovi
aw.. I was hoping Loqi would give you karma
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Loqi
who, me?
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aaronpk
tantek++
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Loqi
tantek has 1 karma
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tantek
apparently not for wiki edits that it reports
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tilgovi
ahh, ++
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aaronparecki.com
edited /2012/Planning (+109) "added UA as sponsor for snacks and beer"
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tantek
aaronpk - the h1 at the top of the wiki wraps very poorly to a second line
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tantek
could we shorten it?
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tantek
e.g. (with minor rephrasing)
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tantek
"IndieWebCamp is a 2-day dev camp focused on creating a more independent web"
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tantek
or perhaps
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tantek
"IndieWebCamp is a 2-day dev camp focused on growing the independent web"
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@erinjo
I'm looking forward to speaking on a panel at the Personal Democracy Forum next week in NYC. We're covering #indieweb http://t.co/mVyeA7gx
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