It's been a pretty intense period of OpenStreetMappy stuff. There's a few things I need to catch up on, here on the diary.

The London Hack Weekend May 2011 has just been and gone. Here's some things we hacked upon:

• User:Matt fixed some evil infinite looping bug which was showing up intermittently as rails processed diff uploads. This involved some in-depth diagnostics and then code changes to allow an upgrade to libxml. Looking good so far. The problem may be fixed.
• User:TomH worked on reviewing a lot of work by User:Amm.
  
  • The code branch formerly known as "OpenStreetBugs" is now called "notes" (a less geeky name for reporting bugsnotes on the map) Not quite deployed yet, but getting there
  • The OpenID work is also under review (allowing people to create an account authenticated by some other provider instead of setting up a new account on OpenStreetMap.org)
    

• User:gravitystorm and User:Richard did Potlatch 2 stuff.
  • history dialogs (not quite deployed yet)
  • Updates to stylesheets and POI menus

• User:Kachkaev did some work on JOSM plugins: Some improvements to JOSM/Plugins/Terracer, and JOSM/Plugins/ImproveWayAccuracy

• User:Firefishy got bogged down in server administration and pondering future hardware/caching stuff but also
  • Made a very slight tweak to the logo on the homepage. Anyone spot the difference??
  • Links from signup terms to translations + summary.
  • Minor OSM.org html fixes.
  • Enabled a new wiki skin on http://www.osmfoundation.org designed by me (communications working group)

(This list on the wiki)

As for me, I missed the Saturday because I did my OpenTech talk, which felt like quite a big deal. Perhaps this was mainly because I spent so long on the slides in preparation. I'm particularly proud of the progressively assembling developer ecosystem diagram, which looks like this at its climax:

Yes I know technically some of the arrows aren't quite right. In a problem reminiscent of creating the old component overview diagram, it's actually impossible to draw a diagram which is both complete and correct, but also a nice overview summary, but my blog post (the slide notes) give more detail and corrections

On Saturday I also recorded a video interview about OpenStreetMap with some nice folks from VisionOn.TV

After all that I felt a bit fried on Sunday. Didn't really manage any hacking.
I fiddled with http://www.osmfoundation.org menu navigation after firefishy had deployed the MediaWiki skin I'd designed (Nice blog<->wiki match). I needed to make sure the blog and wiki also showed the same thing in the top menu, but further work is needed on re-arranging some content there. This is stuff we've been planning in the Communication Working Group.

Speaking of which, I have a Communication Working Group meeting this evening, and the Technical Working Group people (sysadmins etc) are meeting on Tuesday. No let up! Given this general state of business we'll probably wait until next week to do pub another London meet-up / mapping party, by which time I'll have had chance to say what happened at the Pimlico meet-up, and to do the next cake diagram! (where shall we go mapping??)