I presented at FOSS4G 2008 in Tokyo today, thanks to Orkney, OSGeo.jp, and MetaCarta. Gave a talk on OpenLayers: Past, Present, and Future. Hard to gauge success of the talk: many people seemed somewhat bored, but my typical attempts at keeping interest are not so effective in a room where most people don’t speak the same language as I do. <\/p>\n
Went over history of OpenLayers — a bit of the pre-“Mark IV” that most people think of as being “OpenLayers”, then into why MetaCarta initially started the project — plus present status\/features\/developments, then into future (2.x and 3.x), and gave some demos of functionality.<\/p>\n
Got a couple good questions — so at least a couple people were interested, which is more than I can actually say about many presentations where people *do* speak the same language. \ud83d\ude42 Questions are notoriously hard to get out of people at conferences.<\/p>\n
Had shrimp tempura for lunch, which should help me keep my energy up for the workshop I have to give in a bit more than an hour. I’ll be presenting using a trimmed down version of Tim\/Seb\/OpenGeo’s OpenLayers workshop: http:\/\/workshops.opengeo.org\/openlayers\/intro\/doc\/ to about 10 people, as I understand it. Should be interesting to see how far we can get in 1.5 hours.<\/p>\n
Staying awake is going to be tough. The 13 (soon to be 14) hour time difference is quite significant in a way I hadn’t realized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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