Myself and the rest of the Vancouver Bryght crew are at Gnomedex 2005. I was very excited by the news that Dave Winer's new tool, an OPML editor, is going to be released under the GPL. I'm hoping that the Drupal community can do some exciting work with Dave, and have Drupal be a great server component to his desktop tool.

Microsoft also had some announcements. They're building RSS into lots of different areas in Longhorn, the next version of Windows, and demo'd IE7 with RSS built in. As well, James Walker is actually in progress adding vCal entries as enclosures to the events module -- this will generate a format that will work with Longhorn automatically, and Drupal will have it ready to go just days after this major announcement.

The really big announcement is that they came up with some extensions to RSS, called Simple List Extensions, and released it under a Creative Commons license. There was not a community site set up ahead of time, so I made a post on the Channel 9 wiki, registered the simplelistextensions.org domain, and created a Drupal site to help organize the community.

I'm very excited to be a Drupal represenative here at this major event.

You can read more on our Bryght company blogs. We're here for another couple of days, and will be meeting with lots of people and trying to figure out what this means for the wider Internet community.