whoisi activity stream for OSCON 2008

In my original post on whoisi I made a remark about wanting to keep track of events:

You also might notice that I have an entry above that just says “@fisl2008″. This is me just playing with events. One thing I’ve always wanted is the ability to say “I’m going to be at this event and I would love to see others who are doing the same.” In this sense it’s like saying “I was @ FISL 2008.”

Over the last couple of evenings I put together some code that made that possible and decided to make a stream for OSCON 2008 since I will be there:

I go to a few conferences a year and I’ve always wanted to have access to information about who was there and what they were doing during the conference. So I’ve tried to create that experience with this. Want to keep up with who is going to dinner where? Or who found something really interesting? Following this stream should help.

If you look at the events page there’s a quick tutorial on how to add yourself or someone else to the event. It’s easy. And thanks to a suggestion from Jeff the aliases in profiles now link to the respective event and/or group. That should make it easier to discover events from people’s pages.

There aren’t that many people listed right now. About 34 last time I counted. That’s about the number of people who responded to my request the other day. But if you’re interested in the feed or you’ll be there feel free to add yourself.

Have fun!