Propose Canceling the August pdpug Meeting

[Dawn Foster]

Unless anyone objects, I propose canceling the August meeting. Most
UGs tend to be very lightly attended in August, since many people are
on vacation or just outside enjoying this lovely weather.

Any strong objections to canceling?

I'm also looking for agenda items for September, so feel free to send
those my way, too.

Thanks,
Dawn

[Amber Case]

I agree with you - it's a bit summery/hectic for me to attend. Looking
forward to August, though.

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[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Yeah ... let's wait till September ... July was pretty sparse.

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[marcus estes]

I haven't attended my first meeting yet, but I'll be patient until September:)

Would there be any interest in a presentation about using XMPP and Google's Pubsubhubbub protocals to develop notification frameworks for vast herds of feeds?

Marcus

[Justin Kistner]

I wouldn't mind showing some cool things you can do with the RSS overlay in Webtrends Analytics 9. It's probably not a long enough topic for a whole meeting, but would compliment another presentation.

Also, whatever the topics may be we're open to host the September event at Webtrends.

[Alex Williams]

Marcus - I'd definitely be interested.

Has anyone been looking at RSSCloud.org?

Alex.

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:10 AM, marcus estes <marc...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[marcus estes]

> Has anyone been looking at RSSCloud.org?

Yes, but it's hard to look past the classic Winer huffery lining the
edges. I believe he's been out-engineered by the whipper snapper
engineering duo at Google (Brad Fitzpatrick and Brett Slatkin) who
built pubsubhubbub as a bench project.

Pubsubhubbub (can we just say PSHB?) builds upon the smart publication
specs from RSSCloud, but adds a framework for real-time client
notification. You could do this with RSSCloud too, but the PSHB option
is more full service. And there are already a few implementations
cropping up in the wild.

Here's a blog post itemizing a feature comparison:

PubSubHubbub = rssCloud + ping ?
http://jy.typepad.com/jy/2009/07/pubsubhubbub-rsscloud.html

Marcus