The history of OpenSoda
The history of OpenSoda begins with Matt
Arnold, Penguicon,
and OpenCola. I
have no documentation for when, but some time before Penguicon
2(2004) Matt brought up the idea of making this thing called OpenCola
he had
learned about as Penguicon was an open source convention. Matt is one
of these people
that have great and wonderful ideas and somehow gets other people to do
it for
him. In 2004, it was just an idea and didn’t happen. I was
wrangled
into being
ConChair for Penguicon 3(2005) and Matt was my right hand man. So he
had my ear
on many manners and I think mostly willingly I agreed OpenCola and
Penguicon
would be fun. This prolly would have mostly been a fun little maybe it
would be
cool to do some day project if not for a very well timed meeting. Matt
and I
decided to attend Midwest
Construction 2004, a con about running cons, where we
meet none other then that lady who said she was the one who devolved
the original
OpenCola recipe. Her name completely escapes me at this moment. She
told us
lots of good information, but more importantly, told us she would glad
send us
all the equipment she had. It was several months before she got us said
box,
but it was enough. From this point, I have documentation of events and
notes on
formulas.
3/27/2005 - OpenCola Test Batch 1
The orginal batch went well enough, but was not any where near good.
Again, OpenSoda might have died here if not for the revitilazing energy
of the project of Chuck Child. Chuck tasted OpenCola and said "I can do
better" and was just starting to meet those of us involded in the
OpenCola at Penguicon. He excitedly agreed to help and dove in to
reworking the formula savagely. We basically decided the forumla needed
to be reworked from the ground up and researched every page we could
find about cola production.
12/3/2005 - OpenCola Test Batch 2
9/13/2008 - OpenCola test batch using cube
cola methodolgy