Man, what a great week. I spent a couple of days working with Donovan at his office on a couple of issues: making py.test capable of running Twisted test cases, improving LivePage event notification, and setting up a BuildBot for their in-house test suite.

Thursday night was the BayPIGgies meeting (a local Python users group), held at Google's spiffy office complex in mountain view. I handed off some JavaButton hardware that I'm loaning to Pavel for a month, and wound up hanging out with Zooko for the rest of the evening, talking about some software licensing ideas he's been thinking about. We agreed that they need a bit of work, but were still quite promising, and we were up pretty late arguing about the details. When you start talking about metalicenses, you know it's getting late.

Friday I spent at HP hanging out with some of the E/Capabilities people. In the discussion I happened to mention an essay I'd seen about expectations of privacy in online spaces, unfortunately I wasn't able to remember the site or the author in realtime. Of course it turns out that it was written by Danny O'Brien, whom I met at CodeCon and when we talked to the ZigBee people about licensing their technology and brands in a way that would make them more compatible with free-software. Small world.

The afternoon was spent at Kragen's office watching he and Donovan and Mark work on Wheat. When Tyler showed up we spent about half an hour talking about newpb could incorporate some of the ideas of his web-calculus model. This was really useful, it sounds like he's addressed most of the problems we've encountered in building newpb. I think there exists a possibility that we could use his serialization scheme and (since they're working on making E speak the same protocol) thus make newpb interoperate with E. That would be a nice accomplishment.