Sponsors, Speakers confirmed for Northeast US Mesh Summit
cjdns author among presenters, open-mesh.com to sponsor event
SlashRoot will host engineers and developers from amatuer to expert at a summit on the subject of “mesh” networking this Saturday, March 31.
“Mesh” is a style of computer networking that uses a series of small devices, called “nodes,” to pass information through local areas. It is sometimes referred to as “neighbor-to-neighbor style” networking. Some prominent network engineers have suggested that it may soon drive much of the infrastructure of the Internet.
“Although mesh is very new in terms of mainstream attention, the technology and techniques are fairly well tested - we’re going to be ready to deploy in New Paltz by the fall,” said Justin Holmes, SlashRoot’s founder. “As such, we’re obviously overjoyed to bring internationally known experts to New Paltz to convene on the future of this technology.”
Among the attendees registered for the summit is 24-year old Caleb James Delisle, a Massachusets engineer and author of cjdns, a popular and quickly-growing routing software. “If you were going to make a short list of the rising stars in network programming today, I think you’d have to include Caleb,” said Holmes. Delisle’s software was recently selected by “darknetplan,” a reddit-based group of 25,000 mesh enthusiasts, as their software of choice. Delisle will be entertain a one-hour internet-broadcast interview by Holmes at 1:00PM.
The event is sponsored by open-mesh.com, which bills itself as a provider of “ultra low-cost, zero config, plug and play wireless mesh networks.” Open-mesh will provide the networking gear for the event as well as coupons for registered attendees.
WHAT: Northeast Mesh Networking Summit
WHEN: Saturday, March 31 from 10:00AM - 6:00PM
WHERE: SlashRoot Coffee House and Tech Dojo, 60 Main Street, New Paltz, NY 12561
WHY: Up-and-coming network technology being discussed and developed in the Hudson Valley.
here is Caleb James Delisles interview from the event.
My interview on Slice of New Paltz
Slice of New Paltz Slash Root from don kerr on Vimeo.
My Django sprint patch has been committed!
Bloody TemplateSyntaxError will now occur only upon... errors... in... the template syntax...
Have you tried to sit down and teach anyone Django lately? Maybe run them through the tutorial?
Have you then watched as they made a slight mistake, including but not limited to: Typing the database host name incorrectly, bugling the queryset syntax, mis-typing the name of a variable in the view, etc? All the while with a perfectly fine template?
....and have you then watched as Django raised TemplateSyntaxError?
This problem was very annoying for us at SlashRoot - it was a major hurdle in making new django developers feel empowered and informed about the state of their app. On a daily basis, one can hear shouts of "but the template looks fine!" coming from our dev stations.
I made this problem my mission at the sprint at Djangocon.us 2011. With a great deal of help from the very patient Carl Meyer, I banged out a fix. You can see the ticket here.
This is SlashRoot's biggest contribution so far to Django, and we're super proud and happy to help.
I'll be volunteering at Twiliocon!
I just got the word that my application to volunteer at Twiliocon has been accepted - the standards must be pretty low these days! :-)
Anyway, I get to help put on a great conference for one of SlashRoot's favorite service providers! And I get a free ride for doing it! Woo!
