NoseRub

So, NoseRub DevCamp will take place on September 13th to 14th 2008 in Cologne. The location is sponsored by Ormigo, the company I work for. Here's a link on Google Maps

I will try to find more sponsors to cover some costs like drinks and some snacks. Obviously this will depend on how many people will attend.

So please give me a note not later than September 3rd if you will attend here in Cologne, or somewhere else world wide. I will not set up a wiki for registrations, so leave a comment here, or write me an e-mail.

There will be no sleeping within the office, but this hotel is just placed next to our office building. I have no idea how good/bad it is, so this is no recommendation, just a hint, that there is a hotel nearby.

I will set up a new Google Code repository for DevCamp, so that I can give write permissions to that repository for everyone. This way, we can speed up sharing code and don't have too many unverified changes in the main repository.

There are many things to do at the DevCamp, starting by adding new services to NoseRub and improving existing once. But we have a lot of other open issues in our Issue Tracker, some really shamefull like having a password recovery process...

Other things are bigger, like having OAuth for our own API and also being able to act as an OAuth client. This way we could interact with identi.ca, what would really great. Yes, we already could interact with Twitter, but I really don't want to ask users for their service passwords.

We could create widgets to display our lifestreams on our own servers and have PlugIns for several blogging packages like s9y and Wordpress - in fact, work on a Wordpress PlugIn was already started and is waiting for a newer release of NoseRub.

Other things to do are adding the use of HTMLPurifier for any HTML output from third parties, like from RSS-Feeds. This way, we could allow people to add HTML and CSS to their own profile pages, without being in fear of XSS or other malicous code parts. If you're a CakePHP expert and designer, I would love to see a way to have NoseRub itself easily customized when it comes to colors and header graphics.

But the DevCamp is also there for learning how NoseRub works. In means of the software itself and of how the protocol behind it works. I therefore encourage everyone during the DevCamp to monitor our discussion group to help other NoseRubbers out there. We will also re-activate our web absed chat then

The nearer the event gets, the more information will be presented here. So, if any open questions arrives, please let me know: dirk.olbertz (at) gmail.com

PS: Thanks to Alex for the logo. Grab it, if you want to. We also have a PNG and an AI Version available, if you need something else.