We had a cool presentation from an engineering candidate at OpenLogic yesterday. He talked to us about SVK, an Open Source project that does local mirroring of a remote Subversion, CVS, or Perforce repository.

What's really useful about this technology is that you can have your own local branch any time you want and still have a nice commit trail that you can revert, report on, track, etc. It's nice for disconnected laptops, working on a plane, or any other time where you can't have a direct, fast connection to the development repository. With a simple CLI, you can mirror a repository, create a new local branch, and starting checking in/out. When you're ready to merge back to the "real" repository, it's a simple smerge away.

I've been to the OSBC conference in San Francisco three times now, but this is the first year I've talked to multiple people from Asia who were seriously interested in Open Source.

The snowball is just beginning to roll.