Simon Willison’s Weblog

Grub. Jimmy Wales just announced at OSCON that Wikia have acquired Grub from LookSmart, and will be releasing it as open source.

# 27th July 2007, 5:24 pm / grub, jimmywales, looksmart, open-source, oscon, oscon07, search, wikia

tesseract-ocr. Open source OCR, sponsored by Google. I just sat in on a talk on this at OSCON and the complexity of the problem is pretty incredible.

# 26th July 2007, 8:23 pm / google, ocr, oscon, oscon07, tesseract

OpenID Bootcamp Tutorial. Slides from the OpenID Bootcamp tutorial I gave this morning with David Recordon.

# 25th July 2007, 12:39 am / bootcamp, david-recordon, openid, oscon, oscon07, speaking

Django Master Class. Notes and slides from the OSCON tutorial I gave yesterday with Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Jeremy Dunck.

# 24th July 2007, 3:20 pm / django, jacob-kaplan-moss, jeremy-dunck, oscon, oscon07, python, speaking, tutorial