o'reilly finally got back to me about my proposal for an oscon talk.
as i expected from the lack of an earlier response, they said no, which kind of sucks, but i'll get over it. i'm putting a bunch of the matterial i was going to talk about into the article i'm writing for o'reillynet, so the info will still be out there, and hopefully i'll still end up going to the conference and hang out with all the svn guys who are planning to be there.