PyOpenSpime 0.2 launched!

Dear developers,
today the OpenSpime library PyOpenSpime v0.2 has been released! This version 0.2 does not fully support the OpenSpime protocol v0.9 yet, however it fully implements the Data Reporting OpenSpime core extension.
The main differences between the previous v0.1 release are:

a major code refactoring which has substantially improved code useability (for instance, the OpenSpime engine responsible for handling the protocol is now completely separated from the OpenSpime XMPP client code);
client now [...]

Much Ado For OpenSpime

… well, fact is, about one month before Frontiers ’08, which was held in Turin on July, 1, we all developers on the OpenSpime chat were brainstorming about something to show. Applications of the OpenSpime protocol are nearly endless, but we were thinking about something social and useful like the very first OS application developed by Roberto Ostinelli and Davide “Folletto” Casali, which was CO2 sensing, i.e. air pollution.
The [...]

PyOpenSpime 0.1: Getting Started

The most difficult part in any task is to start. So, I’ve prepared a tutorial to get you started with the OpenSpime infrastructure and PyOpenSpime 0.1, the first release of the Python OpenSpime library.
If you’re reading this, most probably you already know what a spime is: a technologically enabled device that interacts both with the physical and the digital environment, aware of its location and [...]