Lococast Episode 16: Interview with Greg Grossmeier on Locos, Copyright, and Open Data

Craig and Rick take a trip out to Ann Arbor Michigan to chat with the Michigan Loco leader Greg Grossmeier. We chat about how starting up a loco has been.

We also get into his current work for the University of Michigan. Lots of information about their http://open.umich.edu program.

Next we chat about his internship and work at Creative Commons along with some great info on Open Data.

Finally, we wrap up with some talk of govenance, and what he meant in his blog post about the Banshee/Canonical kerfuffle

Other Links

• http://www.sherlockian.net/acd/copyright.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft#Copyright
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead#Copyright_status

Music: Ac33d by Micronaut from Transformer

Lococast.net Episode 15 - Interview Jason Smith about Unity

• Intro
• Events
  • Global Jam, we're doing one, 10 jams so far
  • Penguicon

• Interview with Jason Smith

  Jason is a developer for the Developer Experience (DX) team with
  Canonical and works on the Unity desktop shell. In particualar the
  launcher. We ask him how it's going, what the plans are for Natty, and what
  we should be looking forward to in Natty+1.

  Links Jason mentions in the interview

  • Unity milestones
  • Cool new scrollbars in Unity

• Books

  • Craig: Nadda
  • Rick: Pro Python
• Music
  • Rearm Machines by Sequence The Silence from Bipolar Llama
  • Watch the Burn by Sekshun 8 from Black Winged Butterfly
  • Condemned by Wendigo from Audio Leash
  • Completely mysticism by Dr Kuch from Analog Disease

Pycon 2011 Sprints Interview: Michael Foord, Canonical, OS Split Personality, and Mocking

In our last in the series of interview from PyCon 2011, Lococast sits down with Michael Foord and talk about some of the cool things he's working on at Canonical, how the new version of his Python mocking library Mock is doing, and a little bit about what's going on with IronPython in a post-Microsoft sanctioned project era.

Music

• A Thousand Nails by Aathma from The Call of Shivà
• The End Of The Snake by Aathma from The Call of Shivà

Pycon 2011 Sprints Interview: Mark Ramm from Sourceforge and Allura, the new forge

Lococast got a chance to sit down and ask Mark Ramm about the new open source project forge, Allura. They managed to get it out to the public right before PyCon and were working hard on it during the sprints at PyCon 2011. Find out what makes it unique and what they're up to.

Pycon 2011 Sprints Interview: Chris McDonough from Pyramid Web Framework

Lococast sits down with Chris McDonough from Pyramid Web Framework at the Pycon 2011 sprints. We talk about what's brought around Pyramid 1.0, how the reception has been to the great work, and where Pyramid is looking to go from here.

Get a t-shirt from the online store.

Music:

• Snake bite by Gleb Bones from The fine art of wasting timeSnake bite by Gleb Bones from The fine art of wasting time
• G Trap by Cyber Snake from Dolls & Lovers

PyCon 2011: Mike Pirnat Interviews John DeRosa - Busing USA

Rick joins Mike Pirnat from the From Python Import Podcast to interview John DeRosa as he discusses his adventure tweeting his bus ride from Seattle to PyCon 2011 in Atlanta. What makes a crazy man do such a thing? What could possibly go wrong? Find out!

Music in this episode:

• New Cycle Day (bonus track) by Sequence The Silence from Bipolar Llama
• Three Blocks by Sekshun 8 from Black Winged Butterfly
• Music request sample

Lococast and From Python Import Podcast PyCon 2011 Wrap Up

Lococast joins forces with the great guys of From Python Import
Podcast to go over all the hotness of PyCon 2011. Best talks, best open
spaces, and just a bunch of tired brain melted Python devs.

Intro Sound

Lococast on Location: PyCon 2011 Day 1

I'm down in Atl, GA for PyCon 2011. This is my report from Day 1 of events. Take a listen to see what's going on and we'll try to get some better notes up in the future. Big props to Craig for helping me get the audio out the next day.

Keep an eye out for reviews of day 2 & 3.

If you're down at PyCon, stop by during our open space time at 10am on Sunday where I'll be getting together with the guys of From Python Import Podcast and we'll be looking for some mini-interviews. Let the world know what they're missing by not attending PyCon.

• Intro
• Outro

Lococast.net Episode 14 - Sitting at the same table

• Intro
• Events
  • Ubuntu
    Cloud Days
  • USD
    Sponsorship
  • Penguicon
• Freedombox and Humans are the router
• The Banshee saga goes on and on 
  • http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/611
  • http://blog.grossmeier.net/2011/02/24/the-kerfuffle
  • http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/02/24/banshee-in-natty-to-ship-multiple-stores-and-contribute-to-gnome-foundation/
• Books
  • Craig: Pro Python
• Music
  • me one more time by REVENGE from FEST OF REVENGE
  • Robbotica System by Cibernetica from The Ultimate Bio Commando
  • Fallout by Severed Fifth from Nightmares By Design
  • Putrid Pigs by BRUTAL MURDER from Intracranial Total Insanity
  • By yourself by Redmind from Step back from the edge
  • Discipline by Nine Inch Nails from The Slip

Lococast.net Episode 13 - WARNING: News overload...generating core dump

• Intro
• Events
  • Global Jam Prep
• Ubuntu Happenings
  • Ubuntu 11.04 Drops Release Candidate / News / Online / Home - Ubuntu User
  • No GPLv3 Software on Windows Phone 7 / XBox app store?
  • Banshee by default brings headaches for Canonical
    • http://gburt.blogspot.com/2011/02/banshee-supporting-gnome-on-ubuntu.html
    • http://doctormo.org/2011/02/16/canonical-platform-control-bites/
• Nokia/MS Partnership
  • http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/10/nokia-confirms-microsoft-partnership-new-leadership-team
  • http://bethesignal.org/blog/2011/02/11/elopocalypse-nokia-chooses-microsoft/
  • http://www.asymco.com/2011/02/11/in-memoriam-microsofts-previous-strategic-mobile-partners/
  • Meego - "desktop QT is not our R&D priority right now http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/02/18/buckets-of-cold-water/ (KDE in danger?)
• Freedombox
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper
  • http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/ - kickstarter donate
  • http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/721744279/push-the-freedombox-foundation-from-0-to-60-in-30
• UberTwitter
  • http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-war-ubermedia-2011-2
  • The Internet Is Not An Airport
• Books
  • Craig: Getting Started with Arduino by Massimo Banzi
• Music:
  • Un by Monkey Trial from Un
  • Interlude by Monster Cyborg from Astral Projection
  • Sidewalk by Etherfysh from Box of Fysh
  • State Trooper by The Dino Haak Collective from Switzerland Your Light Is On