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I think that http://tasks.hotosm.org/ has the balance of edit, review down pat.

I wonder if they have imported a bunch of Freebase items, now that its shutting down.

I would portray as one role, and a few really important projects.

For example:

Senior Consultant For the past 24 months, I've worked with a large number of varied clients to realise true business value for them. This has included Real Example A and Specific Detail B, but beyond the pure technical skills, it has highlighted the value of softer skills.

Most notably, I recently worked with the estate of Douglas Adams in an ecommerce towel distribution hub. Don't panic, I'm the right chap for the job.

Probably better is something like tasks.hotosm.org's "Done" and "Reviewed" approach, and requiring accounts.

Obvious vandalism attracts a ban quickly.

Hah. Worked with ThoughtWorks for a year as a client on a particular project, and fought tooth and nail for many of the things highlighted here (Postgres, living style sheets). Liking this vindicated feeling right now

Argh, no CRUD for my job listing :/ The markdown preview and the actual rendering are quite different, so I appear to have posted a Wall Of Text :S

I work with a number of staff in the same spot you are. A year is unlikely to cut it re overseas clients. With hiring one of the most impressive things is open source work or blogging about how to do things: seniors do this from frustration, but they're are plenty of early lessons that go forgotten. I would encourage that if you are targeting au companies with existing tech teams

If the test of a technology/codec is its ability to transport pornography; I'd say this is being successfully adopted via webm.

http://blog.4chan.org/post/81896300203/webm-support-on-4chan

The UI needs more love and kittens. I should really get off my butt and send in more PRs though :(

I'm really excited about huginn as an open alternative.

This is changing too, with the move to cartocss. Follow the github repo perhaps!

https://twitter.com/namechallenge http://namechallenge.com/

I'd go to NameChallengeConf!

I begin to suspect going nuclear is the only option. "Hi, I'd like to cancel my service" "But what about X?" "Ombudsman and or Lawyers. Cancel. You have been instructed, the next time I say this will be in court/writing/etc".

Meh. Already possible with systems like TheThingSystem or Ninjablocks - there are rough edges, but there's a convergence of protocols and platforms taking place in the open source space.

I predict that these sort of things may be slicker initially, but open platforms focusing on one problem (ie: nodered or Huginn for rules, Owntracks for presence, TheThingSystem or Ninjablocks for pushing a bunch of readings to an MQTT hub from multiple protocols) will win out.

Right now I can drive both airconditioners through either a simple on/off 433mhz plug, or for the samsung, via wireless/direct commands. I can trigger rules to disable when I leave the house. I can control my lights when motion is sensed.

It's going to take a long time; but the open rules solutions already are approaching competitiveness with IFFFT or Zapier; and the NodeJS based lower level stuff is all focused on MQTT; so interoperability is highly likely.

I bought an EnviR just to get real time readings of my usage!

Let me know if you'd prefer to write mailto:// or http:www.fish.com

Let's try another example: do you use foursquare and if so how do you feel about its maps?

I think its a good example of data > render, with ux in the front of mind. Unfortunately we are good at the read case, not as good at the contribute case.

For those looking to help, if you know the area or are an experienced mapper, http://tasks.hotosm.org

Counter argument: South Australia, my state, is well into the double digits for wind. The was also a government push for solar, wind, but right now private generators ate scaling back on dirty fuel options (coal, gas). This has caused disruption: jobs lost, but arguably towards automation, clean energy and lower carbon emissions

Without trying to make this sound trivial, have you simply considered ignoring both individuals?

You have a senior in the team that has a fair idea of what needs to be done. You know the problems. You know that working on this side project, in secret, is wrong; so why not agree at every meeting, discussion, etc that you will work on it, and then simply do whatever needs to be done.

It is risky, as the manager will then likely try to fire you; but that's going to be difficult to sell:

- At every point you've followed directions given in verbal conversations - If there's stuff in email, you simply agree to that as well - said manager is then documenting their own failure - You are delivering what the strategic parts of the business believe are the right thing - He'll justify trying to fire you... by revealing his secret project - All hell will break loose, and at the end of the day if you were demonstrably protecting revenue and following the overall strategic intent of the organistion, you'll just be treated as a dilligent cog in the machine.

Directly raising it or confronting the issue is likely to make you appear argumentative or a "trouble maker". It doesn't matter if you are right, once it gets past a certain point, non-experts have no clue what's going on and rely on relationships, tone of conversation, and the amount of trust they feel.

However, if you look harmless - nay, even too stupid to have done the wrong thing(!), you can likely let it wash over you and the team.

Alternatively, just all take your sick leave at one time, due to "stress caused by long hours working on SECRET PROJECT NAME", cc HR. :P

The FOAF crowd already did a lot of this style of work - see also http://wiki.foaf-project.org/w/DataSources ; you probably have a few data feeds already, particularly focused on social networking site activity. Other vocabs work - ie, crschmidt's menow vocab.

Express it as json ld to make it more modern, and you have a distributed ecology of services that all talk the same sort of language, about you.

So you can have them steal the 'i am with stupid' branded clothing; with the giant arrow to the thief?

microsoft permitting mitm/google ads in their product ftw

See elance.com / article writing sections. There is a market. The offshore teams are there already.

Is the TortoiseSVN development team trolling?

I remember the FF bugs for removing it suggested only 7 percent of people used it. What frustrates me is that 7 percent x web scale is not a small figure; and many of those were curators - prepping info for others.