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Microformats under development at CodeFest (5)

January 5th, 2008 · by Heri · Open Source

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I cam currently at CodeFest, a weekend sprint gathering developers and whose goal is to implement open standards in existing applications, and which is also sponsored by phpQuébec. This year, it’s organized by good fellow Marc Laporte, main developer for TikiWiki, and who wishes to make Montreal a “central place for technology”.

This event started very slowly. I learned at my own expense as I turned up at 9am, which seems to be an hour where every other Montreal developer is still asleep. (!)

Nevertheless, everyone who signed up eventually came and the intensity of the event rose. We had a brainstorming session about microformats and its usage, what is the state of the art, differences between web services consuming each other’s data via microformats and end-users consuming data published on a web page.

If you are curious, here is a (short) list of the projects being developed/brainstormed currently at La Bande Passante:
- Morgan Tocker is implementing XFN and hCards at Crash at mine, a nomadic open source application,
- Stephane Daury and me are working on a wordpress plugin which can send hReviews to a central server
- Marc and Nelson are working on introducing hCal for Tikiwiki
- Stéphane wants to have Geo and hCard templates for MediaWiki
- Robin Millette is working on a hEvent Drupal aggregator

All of this is done very organically, some are more conceptual than other, while others are nearly done. This seems to be like an open R&D lab with all sorts of excited scientists developers.

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