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Facevalue

There's a new boutique that opened downstairs of our building. I'm all about street level retail. It makes a downtown. However, in general, I don't dig the shi-shi boutiques for myself. However, these dudes are bad ass. The joint's called Facevalue. Check this post about throwing out your kids crocs for some Chucks. Must be inspired by Ashby because we had her in her Crocs when we went in. Well, we didn't throw out Ashby's celery crocs, which are replete with rubber spikes when her mother doesn't remove them, but we did add some bad ass pink Chucks to her wardrobe. Facevalue is "a boutique for all. Specializing in footware, accessories and apparel". My assessment, these guys rule. For the record, I wore Chucks almost exclusively from the 5th grade to 9th grade. At that time I could get them for $15 and no one wore them, but they were great skate shoes.

The dudes in Facevalue have reignited my interest in Converse. I saw this sweet pair of low cuts. The guys saw me eyeing them and said they were John Varvatos designed Jack Purcell's. Oh God, I thought, some lame overpaid American athlete inspiring jingoism and mindlessness. No, it's the  Badminton champ and a Detroit born minority designer. And they're cheap! Sweeet… I'll get them later. Facevalue is breaking me of my Birks only snobbism. If you're in Little Italy stop by the place.

LinuxWorld 2007

Pete, Corey and I attended LinuxWorld last week. A good time was had by all. I bumped into Ethan, the author of Nagios. It was good to see him again. I was surprised that given his recent modeling boon he doesn't yet have an entourage. Soon I'm sure.

Sourceforge.net Stats

MindTouch had a booth in the Novell pavilion. As always we blew some minds with Deki Wiki and dropped some jaws. Traffic to the booth was great and we set another one-day record for downloads of Deki Wiki. Aside from the big spike we're now averaging around 500 downloads a day and still growing strong.

The show should have been called Novell-World. Novell was every where. I enjoyed re-connecting with Frank Rego and Josh. These guys are great. Also, I got a chance to meet Mattias, the PM for SLES. Seemed like a good guy. Much thanks to Novell for helping us to have a presence at LinuxWorld, you guys are wonderful.

Highlights. Well, meeting the dudes from OpenVZ was cool. Pete and I got a killer OpenVZ shirt. I'll Flickr a photo of it later. It has the commands for creating, status-ing, and taking down a VZ. Cool stuff. In general I did well on the tshirt front. I only made it to a couple sessions. I prefer to man the booth. As always, I really enjoy to folks about Deki Wiki. The best of those I attended was a talk on GPLv3 with a dude from the Software Freedom Law Center. I enjoyed meeting Robin Miller, and Peter Galli from eWeek whom I just happened into lunch with, reconnecting with Ross from SF.net and I was stoked to get a Debian shirt (etcha-sketch model). Pete was super enthusiastic about a couple VMware presentations. If only I had a shot at their IPO. 🙂 They have such a compelling technology.

Overall summary of LinuxWorld: more suits than I expected, but I'm really glad to have been there. How else would I have met Amazon's head of S3?

Hayes VM Available

I spent last week riding a motorcycle about Florida and watching dolphins. Tara, Ashby, and I had a blast in Daytona, FL with our much needed family vacation. I’ll put up a write up as soon as I have time.

Our new VM is available for download. www.getdekiwiki.com. Based on the big spike in downloads in the last few hours it seems many of you have already noticed. We also have new support plans and pricing. You’ll find these are very affordable. Please buy. 🙂

I’ll be at LinuxWorld with PeteE and Corey for the next few days. We’re in the Novell pavilion. If any of you are here. Stop by and see us.

Ethan Galstad: Software Model?

Ethan Galstad

I just about laughed myself out of my chair this morning. I visited Sourceforge.net, only to be proven wrong on a comment I made here. When lo and behold…who do I see? I see Ethan’s handsome visage staring longingly back out me! WHOA! I did a double take. I then proceeded to LMFAO. The advertisement in question is to the right. I guess Ethan is now a software model! I always told him he was the most handsome open source programmer I’ve ever met. I guess this was a Splunk ad. Ethan, will you do ads for MindTouch? Please?

Ethan is awesome. When I lived in MN he and I lectured on open source at the University and we also made an ill-fated attempt to get an open source community lab off the ground. I should mention PeteE was also instrumental in our failed attempt. 🙂 In our defense, we only had about a year before I bailed for warmer climes.

I still stand by my claim that PeteE is an open source developer poster child and I have photographic evidence of it here.

StartupSquad

I would be remiss if I didn’t share what little link-love my blog can muster with Vivek at StartupSquad.

While I had expected the usual addition of widgets into the wiki platform, I was in for a surprise. The new build, which is branded as MindTouch Hayes, comes with a powerful new service-oriented extension model. Instead of being mere content consumers, MindTouch customers can now have access to composite applications by federating applications or data across without bothering about the OS, code language,… —StartupSquad | MindTouch Hayes – Wikis become services enabled

Tabulas v Pownce

Tabulas v. Pownce

I noted Mashable has Roy‘s Tabulas listed as networks you can add to your profile. Roy’s site gets about 1M views a month and has over 100,000 registered members. It’s one of Roy’s many side projects outside MindTouch. It’s had slow and steady growth. Aside from writing the app and adding a feature once in a blue moon the only thing growing the community is the quality of the application. Although, Roy might laugh at that statement. 🙂 Anyway, I was curious. How does Tabulas, a quiet little organic community stack up against something like Pownce. According to the graphic you see here, surprisingly well. Of course, these are totally different apps, but I thought it was interesting. Perhaps Pownce will now have an organic growth curve. Then again uncov, my new favorite blog, has this:

Pownce is a web service that lets you “share stuff with your friends”. Translated into non-retard speak, this means “a website where you can go to put notes and files and shit up for other users”. What was that? You remember FTP too? Yeah, from nineteen seventy-fucking one? Now it has pastel colors, and it’s invite-only. – uncov / pownce

🙂 Uncov rules.