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Sakai Product Manager

by xolotl | 8 April 2012 - 5:15pm
rSmart
  • Lead collaboration for the definiition, development, and marketing of rSmart Sakai products and offerings.
  • Build relationships with technology, content, services, and other business partners to augment rSmart Sakai products and offerings.
  • Evangelize for the adoption of open source technologies, Sakai, Kuali, and rSmart offerings by educational and corporate organizations.
  • Collaborate with Sakai, Kuali, and other open-education communities to support their success.

Open Source MM Yeah

by xolotl | 6 May 2010 - 4:33pm

Chat Dérive: I Ran in to Someone on the Web

by xolotl | 9 April 2009 - 12:26am

Something odd happened to me today. I ran into a complete stranger on the Internet.

I signed into chat, and almost immediately had the conversation below with someone I didn't know, going by the handle "toweringcoho". I was at a largish gathering and had bonjour turned on as usual, so assumed it was someone in the room—even though I didn't bother to look to see what chat connection toweringcoho was using.

A quick Google search suggested that "toweringcoho" is the name of one of a series of IM bots that randomly connect to otherwise unconnected chat users.

And that's how I met Sunil Khiatani from Hong Kong. It took a while for both of us to figure out that we were NOT talking to robots, and a bit longer to introduce ourselves. In the end, we had a worthy conversation, got to know each other a bit, and went on our ways.

I'm not sure if these IM bots are supposed to be malicious, but I liked what happened. It was like going on a kind of unintentional dérive in text only.