Slides from OSS BarCamp

Posted by David in API, OSS Bar Camp, Open Source, echolibre, innovation, performance, web3.0
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 at 15:08

This past weekend we went along to Dublin’s OSS BarCamp. There were some really great talks, Stuart Langridge’s Javascript presentation was a highlight. Jaime Hemmett’s talk on using Git for version control was useful and informative. Paul Biggar’s talk on PHC, the Open Source PHP Compiler, was thought provoking and certainly caused a few grumbles from PHP guys like myself in the audience ;). JD and myself managed to catch up with him after and talk through some of his ideas over a drink.

I also got to give a talk on how APIs will be the cornerstone of the next stage in the evolution of the web - web 3.0 if you will.

This was my first time talking about a subject that didn’t directly involve PHP.  I’m planning on doing a similar talk at BarCamp Belfast at the end of the month, so if you were present and have suggestions on how my presentation could be improved feel free to leave a comment below.

Andrea Trasatti (@andreatrasatti) made the valid point that a small company and startup are not the same thing. Also I’ll have to add a list of successful startups towards the end of the presentation to support my central argument that APIs can extend a customer base and service subscriber network.

So, my slides from the presentation are below, please do let me know what you think. As a company, we were delighted to be able to sponsor the event, and it was great to be able to connect to speakers and attendees alike over a few drinks after the event.

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