Are you an interesting person?

Today at lunch time there was an interesting discussion on kinds of people that others classify as 'interesting'. This came up in reference to various interactions people had at OSCON with many prominent and industry leading specialists as well as other seemingly common people they met. For e.g. they refered to this one guy being very interesting because he had written the cartoon series on some obscure and abstract topics like Einstein's theory of relativity, big bang theory etc, something along the lines of Larry Gonick's History of the Universe series. There was this other person who has traveled to 13 countries researching on how cultural aspects play a big role in the adoption of the design principles. How coke had to change its traditional red can to a different color in some countries because it was considered inauspicious. And then there are all these other people pursuing obscure hobbies like origami and create wonders with it (someone brought a big cuckoo clock made with origami for a demo at OSCON). This and many other similar tales really made me wonder. Would my life sound anything this 'interesting' when mentioned?

OSCON this week..

Most OSAF people are off at OSCON this week. I had to cancel out last minute due to other competing priorities. I was just reading people's blogs and reports on various tutorials they attended. Anthony Baxter's Effective Python Programming seems to have been a hot favorite. Today was Ted's tutorial on Programming in Chandler where he covered how to extend Chandler to add additional features. We now have 3 extensions prebuilt in Chandler; an RSS Reader,a Flickr parcel to look up photos based on tags and the Amazon wishlist parcel to query someone's Amazon's wishlist based on the email address. There was also a Cosmo (OSAF's WebDAV server implementation) demo by Brian Moseley at the CalDAV panel where we also demoed interoperability with other CalDAV servers like Mozilla's and RPI's. Overall looks like all the presentations and demos from the OSAF side went well. Last 2 months of work has finally paid off!