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Mobile Non-Profit Campaigns and Projects - Raincity Radio

DaveO — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:24:00 -0500

Mobile technology can change the world - or help people express themselves with art and improve safety too. Roland Tanglao discusses an assortment of mobile-themed projects and initiatives including:

Sift Tool - sifttool.com

Mobile Muse - mobilemuse.ca

Vancouver Art Gallery Fuse night

Homeless Nation - homelessnation.org

Fearless City - fearlesscity.ca

Phones for Fearless campaign

Recorded with Griffin iTalk Twitter: @griffintech run by @davedelaney

Web Standards and World Changing with Dave O X 2 - Raincity Radio

DaveO — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:24:34 -0500

An afternoon chat with W3C TAG member Dave Orchard talking with Dave Olson about the World-Wide Web consortium (W3C), gaining consensus among companies, and the shift from information to energy and intelligence economy.

More Dave Orchard at: http://www.pacificspirit.com

Dave Orchard resume miscellaneous excerpts:

I am interested in leading the development of social networking and/or publish and subscribe features and standards. I'm keen to perform primarily architecture and development roles. The technologies around social graph portability, data portability, single sign-on, distributed authorization, metadata description and discovery, publish and subscribe, versioning, and distributed naming/identification are just some of the technical areas that I find fascinating.

I continue to serve on the W3C TAG where I am working on Versioning, PasswordsInTheClear, URNsRegistries(aka XRIs) and tagSoup findings and outreach. I continue to monitor the HTML 5 and Web applications format Working Group.

W3C WS-Policy with success in rapid delivery of the standard, editor W3C Web Services Description Language 2.0 with success in delivering HTTP Binding, editor SOAP 1.2, member of XML Schema WG and editor XML Schema 1.1 Guide to Versioning using new XSD 1.1 features with success in adding key versioning features to Schema 1.1.

Architected IBM's Travel Frame asset, using Java, XML, XSLT, HTTP, SOAP, etc. to provide travel specific and infrastructure framework and tools for travel ISVs and services organizations. A key development is "Generation X", a toolkit that: generates bindings between Java,XML and SQL type systems; provides a SOAP router and dispatcher; and defines a service API allowing for SOAP messages to be handled by Java or XSLT programs.

I have written articles on a variety of topics, such as Versioning, XML, EJBs, Java Beans roadmap, Java success factors, Java transaction services, Java performance improvements, component and distributed object comparisons. I have been a contributing author to a Java Beans book. Writing history is available at http://www.pacificspirit.com/Authoring/

Photo by KK in Flickr

Bagpipers recorded by Dave Olson

Creative Technology at Vancouver's W Building - Raincity Radio

DaveO — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:59:19 -0400

Raincity Studios' Ambassador Kris Krug discusses the W2 Community Media Arts centre, part of the socially-minded Woodwards project in downtown eastside Vancouver. Built on the spot of a former department store, the new building includes a mix of social housing, market housing, an university campus, and the community media arts space.

Resources

"W sign" Photo by Kris Krug
Others Woodwards Building photos by Dave Olson

Note: See the old Woodwards spire in the background

DrupalCon, Camps, Profiles and Plans with Scales - Raincity Radio

DaveO — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:42:29 -0400

Raincity Studios' CEO Robert Scales discusses his recent trips to DrupalCon Hungary, Drupal Camp Montreal, Blog World Expo and partnerships with Acquia, plans for Ægir mass Drupal deployment system and other big ideas for clients and content publishers.

interviewed and produced by Dave Olson for Raincity Studios.
Photo by Kris Krug, (hat by DaveO).

The Boris Speaks - Bryght, Drupal, Boot-up and Vancouver - Raincity Radio

DaveO — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:01:09 -0400

On a sunny Vancouver patio with beers and mussels, Dave enjoys a long conversation with Boris Mann, technology consultant, Drupal board member, noted foodie, vino-camper, and Raincity Studio's product guru (emeritus).

Mr. Mann discuss the history of Bryght, the personal motivations for the acquisition by Raincity Studios, the importance of robust hosting, the growth of Boot-ups Labs (an incubator taking companies from zero to fundable), the nuances of the Vancouver tech scene, knowledge gaps, mobile ideas and much more.

Blame Canada: 7 Ways We're Ahead in New Media with Kris Krug - SXSW 2008

DaveO — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:52:55 -0400

The SXSW folks are posting podcasts of the plentiful presentations including one featuring our fellow Canadians discussing the pros and cons of rolling a new media company in this culturally diverse, and geographically huge country.

Raincity Studios' Kris Krug moderates and is joined by:

Steve Bocska Sr Dir of Gaming, Cambrian House
Keith Clarkson Production Exec, Xenophile Media Inc
Jennifer Ouano Pres, Elastic Entertainment
Ron Thiele Pres, Xpan Interactive Ltd

(note, i seem to recall another panelist) ...

You are encouraged to subscribe to the SXSW podcast feed for all the presentations (but honestly the distribution scheme could use some help in general). In the interest of posterity, i am posting the unedited Blame Canada audio here so it doesn't get lost in the tubes or some forgotten silo - plus Kris' mom will want to hear his witty stand-up to kick off the spiel.

Blame Canada: 7 Ways We're Ahead in New Media

Cross-border markets, geographical challenges, and a highly ambitious and mobile workforce have forced Canadian interactive companies into thinking differently about how to conduct their business. The result is a nation of highly competitive companies with a keen awareness of global market potential, superior strategies for attracting and keeping talent, flexible and versatile outsourcing production arrangements, and a keen ability to harness the potential of broadband technologies.

SXSW podcast archives

SXSW podcast feed

Photo: Blame Canada by Dvanliet on Flickr.

Open Source Culture from Romania to Vancouver - Raincity Radio

DaveO — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:22:46 -0400

With the eLiberatica conference in Bucharest, Romania {see also: eLiberatica 2008 in Romania - The benefits of Open and Free Technologies} approaching, Raincity Radio host DaveO, along with Boris Mann, sit down with two noteworthy presenters, Zak Greant and David Ascher, to discuss the importance of open source in emerging economies, various Mozilla Foundation projects (including MoFo, MoCo, MoMo), plus a casual conversation about OS community building and management, Romanian cuisine, prawn fishing, and developer culture in Europe and Vancouver.

Photo by Boris Mann on Flickr

Health Care for Rockers on the Road - Raincity Radio - Web Community Podcast

Smith Milner — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:32:11 -0400

DaveO, tired from the long haul at SXSW 2008, sits down for a chat with Kristina Grossmann from Rockforhealth.org. An organization dedicated to putting the health of the artists in the spotlight and making sure they get the attention they deserve.

Photo is courtesy of Rock for Health Flickr feed.

Tattoo Art Speaks for Itself at SXSW - Raincity Radio - Web Community Podcast

Smith Milner — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:09:12 -0400

DaveO Speaks with Erich Weiss about the new movie he is presenting titled Horismoku Sailor Jerry. It is a documentary about Sailor Jerry who is the icon of American tattooing credited with fusing American aesthetics and Japanese techniques in the Hawaiian Islands.

Photo of DaveO and Erich Weiss at SXSW by Robert Scales on flickr

Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry is a feature length documentary exploring the roots of American tattooing

Scales and the Beangrowers from Malta - Raincity Radio

DaveO — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:54:39 -0400

Raincity Studios CEO Robert Scales chats with The Beangrowers at Studio SX at SXSW in Austin. They discuss their band, inspirations, fave tracks, island home of Malta, meeting Kim Deal and Lou Reed, as well as the lack of barriers between fans and bands and the business part of the event.

More Beangrowers:
SXSW Profile
Myspace
Flickr tag