Sarah has posted a summary of Tomek’s Summer of Code Seminar – The Zen of Code Management.
We’ll get Tomek to add his slides shortly.

Chris Di Bona of Google and Slashdot fame (and the “father” of the Google Summer of Code) is presenting to Creative HQ Summer of Code on Wednesday.

Date: Wednesday 7th February 2007 @ 12:00pm
Location:Old Government Buildings, Lambton Quay, Room GBLT03

Map: http://www.zoomin.co.nz/

The event kicks off at 11.30am in GBG07 for some refreshments and rendezvous, followed by a seminar
in GBLT3. Its open to the public but as seats are limited, please RSVP to sarah@summerofcode.co.nz.

We’re having lot’s of fun at Foo Camp. It’s a total geek fest and great opportunity to drill into a wide variety of topicswith amazing people. I have been taking lots of pictures and will post them up once I get back.

Rather than adding my 2 cents on Broadband and other debates. (The government is starting to make some traction on levelling the playing, and I’m really happy to see things progressing.) I ‘d like to say what’s happening about Mobile pricing ? I’ve ranted to lots of people about my experiences in India and how cheap pricing for data and fair royalties for mobile services has led to massive choice of mobile applications.

The market is not servering our needs, when will the commerce commission or government stepping in ? I want to telecom / voadfone is think long and allow content providers to build applications. The big question is how long do we have to wait ?

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We’ve just updated the API to enable users to add text directly on top of the maps. The new API function is called GText. You have the ability to customise the size and style of the text via css. Check out the example
page to see what you can do.

Kudos to Tim for his work.

Tomek, Nick and I will be up at Baa Camp this weekend.

Lot’s of interesting topics to talk about, and we’ll be bring a little demo for show and tell.

Looking forward to meeting lots of new people.