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Friday March 23, 2007
nick decoder ring
So you're probably wondering... where's Tom been?
I really enjoy participating in dicussions on lists, IRC
and blogs... And recently there have been many
very important conversations going on!
Alas this past week has seen me spend a great deal of time
having internal discussions, partipating in conference calls,
attending meetings, discussing F/LOSS issues with more lawyers,
filling out applications, and all sorts of things that "must be done".
Please indulge me for taking a break to have some fun
this time with the OpenJDK IRC nickname decoder ring
-- that I promised at FOSDEM.
It takes me a while to remember name-face associations...
and this is especially hard when I've never met people
f2f. And I'm intrigued with the sorts of clever robots
people have deployed on IRC (for answering FAQ questions,
recalling the transcript, launching discussed URL's in
a browser window, etc.) And so I thought it would be great
to have the "nick decoder robot" to do the mapping from
nickname to real name, e-mail, website and... mugshot!
Although I don't have the robot written the key is having
high quality data to work from and that's the point of
this first effort: to constuct a draft of the data
so that it's ready to go (for when the hacking begins).
Of course this is all personal data and thus it's important
to be sensitive to allow each person add as much, or as little,
information as they would like. Therefore the first
draft is hosted on the OpenJDK Wiki. Everyone can edit
the OpenJDKWikiNickDRing and (unlike some wikis that allow to you get the
wiki code directly) you can save the data by selecting Edit,
copying the contents, then selecting Cancel.
This is really low tech, open, but not completely unstructured, data.
I wonder what other columns might be interesting
(e.g. which networks are frequented, one sentence bio, etc.)???
![[nick decoder ring]](http://mediacast.sun.com/share/tmarble/dring.jpg)
I will apologize in advance that I didn't get everyone into this first draft. Please feel free to edit the nick decoder ring. If you would like me to add/change/delete any of this information just drop me a line (esp. if the website I have for you is missing or incorrect).
Next week promises to be fairly quiet, again, but afterwards I'll be more present online. And I'm very much looking forward to talking about Java Livre at the Forum Internacional Software Livre conference in Brazil. I'll get to see some old friends, hopefully make some new friends, and see the sunset in Porto Alegre, which I am told, is the most beautiful in the world.
NOTE on submitting comments: The Roller software we use here at Sun is quite aggressive about which comments it likes. Please be patient if your comment which includes HTML is not displayed immediately. I will ensure it gets published the next time I check e-mail.
Posted by tmarble ( Mar 23 2007, 12:48:33 AM CDT ) Permalink Comments [1]
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PieSpy - Social Network IRC Bot
Based on pircbot which we also use for GNU Classpath to monitor the status builder.classpath.org regression tester from irc (type "=status" on #classpath to see what it does).
Posted by Mark Wielaard on March 23, 2007 at 04:25 AM CDT #