Hey all,
I've used OSCeleton a bit to use the Kinect with Pure Data aka Pd to make a musical instrument with the body. Here's the product of some Patching Circle hacking with a bunch of people: https://github.com/pd-projects/pd-kinect-skeleton http://vimeo.com/21627710
A few of us have also packaged stuff for Debian/Ubuntu including osceleton, the OpenNI and PrimeSense stuff, that's here: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/openni.git;a=summary http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/primesense-nite-nonfree.g... http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/primesense-kinect-sensor.... http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/osceleton.git;a=summary
And here's binaries of the packages built for Ubuntu Maverick, that might work on other releases of Debian/Ubuntu/Mint: https://launchpad.net/~eighthave/+archive/openni
Hope that's useful to people! You should be able to just add that ppa to your system, then "apt-get install osceleton" to get the Kinect working and outputting OSC.
.hc