Mashing Up The Open Web - Mar 2010

Hi all,
Hemanth is a software developer in a start-up from an Ex-Amazonian,he has a great respect towards open source and free software, always happy to contribute to the open web, after this session he would definitely get more arrows in his quivers and would contribute more.He also maintains a trivial site where he updates about his experiments on GNU/Linux.

Happy hacking.
Hemanth HM
http://www.h3manth.com

Hi Everyone,

I'm a software developer, currently working for FreshBooks -- a Toronto based online billing service -- where I'm the API & Integrations team lead. A big part of my job involves building out our platform with Open Web technologies (OAuth, WebHooks, etc).

I also help organize a local meetup group called OpenWebTO. The goal of the group is to facilitate discussion amongst Toronto-area developers and designers working with Open Web technologies.

I'm looking forward to working with everyone. I think the P2PU approach is pretty exciting and this course is a great way to promote Open Web tech.

Cheers,
Paul Osman
http://eval.ca/

I've been doing front end design of software, web and in user experience, since the mid 90's. Before that I considered myself an artist and worked in the arcane tech of holography. Skills include illustration, html, css, flash, video. I am very interested in expanding tech skills php, jquery, SIMILE etc. Currently travelling in Russia and designing iphone interface for travel guide. Very interested in gps and mapping + interactions with locations of cultural significance and cell phone tech. Interested in collaboration and the process of collaboration.

Hi. I'm the tech director at a K12 school. More and more, we're teaching our K12 (ok, mostly 9-12) students about all sorts of online tools, sending them all over the web to login to this site or that, to be a part of the participtaory web, but they're not always able to keep up with the steady stream of new information. I'm hoping to find ways to bring all their info to them in a consolidated place, or at least that's my goal.

I'm editing this after posting a while ago, but I should have mentioned that I've been mostly doing front-end development for a while with x/html. I can follow along with PHP and use a lot of canned PHP/MySQL packages, but that's about it. I'd like to say that I've played around with Ruby, but I'm not even sure my Ruby experiments are anything to speak of at all.

Basil

Hello All,

With the exception of playing around with Drupal a little bit, I am almost entirely new to web development and hope to gain some broad exposure from this course. I am attracted to the philosophy of open, and curious to learn about the process and tools used in creating useful mashups.

Sam Brewer

Hi all, I hope I'm not out of my depth in this course. I work as a digital strategist primarily in social media. I know a little HTML but not much beyond the basics. I'm really interested to learn to work with Open Street Maps and Google's APIs.