Chatted with the Tom Hughes-Croucher from the Yahoo! Developer Network about the Open Web Foundation and Facebook Connect while up at OSCON last week.

Headed up to Portland this afternoon for OSCON and just put my schedule online if you want to check it out. I won't be there Wednesday as I'll be down at Facebook f8 for the day. Then back up Thursday for a 9:15am keynote on Supporting the Open Web!

Really busy week, with no sleep for me, but should be tons of fun and I look forward to seeing a bunch of awesome people!

As Scott Kveton beat me to blogging about, grr power outages, last evening I won a Google-O'Reilly Open Source award along with Karl Fogel, Pamela Jones, Aaron Leventhal, and Paul Vixie. The award I won was for Best Strategist which refers to the work I've done over this past year at VeriSign within the wider OpenID community. Am certainly really honored to have been recognized though am guessing I now need to work on raising my hacker geek cred again. :P

In other news, Simon Willison and I gave a three-hour OpenID Bootcamp tutorial yesterday morning at OSCON. Slides can be found up at http://www.slideshare.net/daveman692/openid-bootcamp-tutorial/. In the afternoon, Simon and I then joined Tim O'Reilly as a part of the Radar Executive Briefing and discussed OpenID with him, ending with a really great statement from Tim as he sees OpenID as one of the technologies to really pay attention to this year.

So very long but exciting day and already back to OSCON for more session today!