Tech Presentations

Presentation about OpenID (which was originally developed by Danga interactive, creators of LiveJournal).

Given by David Recordon of Verisign and Brian Ellin of JanRain (OpenID promoters, authors of OpenID APIs and maintainers of MyOpenID.com) given on July 28^th, 2006 at OSCON 2006 (slides).

Another presentation about plans for MediaWiki software given by Brion Wibber on August 5th, 2006 at Wikimania 2006 conference (slides)

Google TechTalk presentation about Wikipedia and MediaWiki software that powers it. Brion Vibber is a main developer of the project and responsible for most of Wikipedia technology.
Given on April 28, 2006 (video, slides)

Google TechTalk about SVG format and Inkscape open source vector graphics editor that is based on SVG. Given by Ted Gould on June 19, 2006 (video, slides).

SVG made a very good progress since I checked it out last time a while ago - now editors and rendering tools seem to be ready for mainstream.

Presentation by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa at OSCON on July 26^th, 2006 (slides).