Introduction: Chris Dent

Hi,

I'm Chris Dent, I run my own consulting company with an emphasis on
social and collaborative software. I'm currently contracting with
Osmosoft[1] to help build TiddlyWeb[2] and TiddySpace[3], which are multi-
user/social versions of TiddlyWiki[4]. I'm in the process of adding
federation features to TiddlySpace[5] along two dimensions: a) the
Ostatus, webfinger, pubsubhubbub, salmon dimension of multi-system
awareness of identity, actions and commentary; b) re-use, by reference,
of content from lots of different systems. My initial interest was in b)
for multiple, federated, TiddlyWeb servers, but b informs a, a informs
b, so I'm looking at both.

I've been doing a lot of moaning about Twitter, Facebook,
centralization, lack of federation, misunderstanding the proper promise
and nature of the web and such for years so decided I should make my
actions line up with my words. Thus my interest in this group. My hope
is to help refine the test cases and build implementations. My current
language of choice is Python although I've been doing a fair bit with
Node lately.

I've been running web servers and developing web stuff since there was a
web. I'm currently living in the UK, prior to that I was one of the
early developer at Socialtext, working from Seattle. I switched from
being a sysadmin to a developer sometime around the turn of the century.
I'm a Master of Information Science. There's starting points for me at
http://burningchrome.com/

I'm looking forward to making the game go.

[1] http://osmosoft.com/
[2] http://tiddlyweb.com/
[3] http://tiddlyspace.com/
[4] http://tiddlywiki.com/
[5] https://github.com/TiddlySpace/tiddlyspace/tree/webfinger

-- 
Chris Dent
http://peermore.com/

Received on Tuesday, 8 March 2011 22:36:53 UTC