BarCamp, to re-appropriate David Cross’s magnificent descriptive powers, is like an earthquake wrapped in a hurricane, nestled in a box of tsunamis. I previously blogged about the Portland Firefox Developers group that emerged from BarCampPortland 3. However, there was yet another fantastic birthing there: the Open Web Games group.

Alain Bloch scheduled a session called Developing Non-Flash Web-based Games. A bunch of people attended, probably three times what would’ve fit in the room it was supposed to be in, so it was held in a row of cubicles, with most people standing.

I wanted to do a demonstration of live streaming using the <video/> tag for my talk at the upcoming Open Source Bridge conference; maybe a stream a surprise guest in, do some audience interaction, something fun. I figured the easiest way to test the streaming myself would be to use the webcam in my MacBook Pro’s built-in iSight camera.

One of the cool folks I met at BarCampPortland 3 was Benjamin Stover. He works at Vidoop, and is the developer of ineedtoreadthis.com. We were talking at BarCamp about how there’s a lot of Firefox extension development going on, but usually by lone individuals. For instance, many of the extension developers I interact with say the same thing: “Yeah, I’m _the_ person at my company who’s in charge of the extension”. And while there’s a lot of great online resources for extension developers, there’s no local group or meet-up specific to development using the Mozilla platform.

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