Events
Gdańsk, WikiMania and <Truth in Numbers?>
It’s 11pm on a sultry evening in Gdańsk. I’m in the city to attend WikiMania, the annual conference for wiki projects operated by the WikiMedia Foundation – especially, Wikipedia. On this particular sultry evening, the second day of WikiMania has just about wrapped up. Buses filled to capacity with Wikipedians wrapped up in earnest discussion [...]
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A Pirate Captain visiting the Pacific Northwest
About three weeks from now, Rickard Falkvinge (founder of the Pirate Party) will be kicking off the Vancouver Open Web Conference. He’ll be presenting a keynote on how, in just three years, a party with an odd name organized around a narrow electronic frontier platform has become the fourth largest political party in Sweden. It’s [...]
eLiberatica 2009
As I write this, my friend (and eLiberatica chair) Lucian is packing up to fly to Bucharest for this year’s instance of the eLiberatica Electronic Frontier/Free Software/Open Source conference. Sadly, I won’t be participating this year – a commitment to less travel and a new venture make doubly sure that I’m staying home. Despite the [...]
Externalities Win
Earlier this year, I gave a presentation at Münchner Kreis’ Leadership by Open Innovation in the Telecoms, IT and Media Industries event. What follows is a rough transcript of my presentation. I recognise that it has flaws, but may still provide some useful neuron twiddling for readers. I’m happy for feedback and suggestions. Externalities Win: [...]
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The Paris Brief
Spent from December 7th until 14th in Paris. Attended the AFUP Forum PHP. Provided opening keynote for event. (Slides here.) Well-attended, well-run event. 500 people over two days. Some excellent sessions – including a security session by Damien Seguy that needed to be given twice to meet demand. Small exhibition hall with a mix of [...]
Slides from AFUP Forum PHP Keynote
Yesterday, I had the honor of providing the opening keynote for the AFUP‘s Forum PHP event. Slides from the session are below: The Age of Literate Machines – AFUP Forum PHP View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: taolm age)
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NorthWest MozDev 08 Roundup
NorthWest MozDev was informal, fun and useful. Many thanks to Brij for organizing and to the other attendees for coming out! Time permitting, I may work up a more complete report on the event later – for now, I’ll just post a link to the rough notes from the meeting and a couple of the [...]
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Go Open 2008: People
As usual for a conference, I spent almost all of the time I was at Go Open 2008 talking with people (and occasionally talking at people.) The following is a list of people I talked with (or listened to) along with the interesting or exciting things that they shared with me or that they’re working [...]
OOXML: Go To Hell!
Demonstration against OOXML, originally uploaded by Martin Bekkelund. It is a day after the Go Open conference in Oslo and I am still holed up in a hotel nearby. Blearily stumbling down to breakfast, I was confronted with a mix of lukewarm meatballs, easy listening radio — both of which are common enough to encounter [...]
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Early Coverage of Go Open 2008
Day two of Go Open is just about to get started. Already, there’s a good amount of coverage in the Norwegian press on the event. I have made a pitiful attempt to translate the titles of the articles, mostly for the amusement of my Norwegian friends. Alexander V. Røyne blogged, go open day 2008 1: [...]
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