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A Conversation (or the Notable Absence Thereof) with David Suzuki
Earlier tonight I went to see a set of onstage, live-to-tape interviews between Shelagh Rogers (host of CBC Radio's Sounds Like Canada), sustainability expert John Robinson (who is working on the fascinating Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability) and leading environmentalist David Suzuki.The interviews were interesting - both John and David have compelling messages that [...]
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Supporting Development of Norway's Electronic Frontier
Some months ago, around the time of the 2007 eZ Conference, I started working with Tor-Arne Bellika (from Innovation Performance AS) and Aleksander Farstad (from eZ Systems AS) on a series of projects centered around helping to develop Norway's electronic frontier.
The projects are diverse and broad in scope. They range from developing a Free Software [...]
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OpenMind 2007 Age of Literate Machines Keynote
As the narrator in the Big Lebowski posited, "Some days you eat the bear and some days the bear eats you."
I gave my keynote at OpenMind and the response has been quite positive. Unfortunately, I feel that I botched some key parts of the presentation, which is a bit disappointing for me.
What I have now [...]
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OpenMind 2007 Day 2 / MindTrek 2007 Day 1
I'm sitting in the plenary session for the first day of MindTrek and the second day of OpenMind. I won't be live-blogging the sessions today - instead, I have a presentation to give (and need to pre-load my talk buffers) and hope to spend more time meeting people today.
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I Love Finland
… and why, you may ask, do I love Finland so much?
Walking from the OpenMind conference sessions out into the hotel and then on into the lobby, I find that they are playing Manowar over the hotel sound system.
Earlier this morning, they were playing christmas music.
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OpenMind 2007: What does G(PE)^2 bring to the mobile space?
The next presentation is focused on G(PE)^2, a GUI for Linux-based mobile phones. It is similar to OpenMoko. I'd love to blog about the session, but I've been typing like a maniac for most of the day and my head is pretty full of the OpenMoko stuff.
If you are curious, check out the G(PE)^2 website [...]
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OpenMind 2007: OpenMoko - The Truly Open Mobile Phone Platform
I skipped out on the previous session so that I could get my electric plug adapter from my room (and to get a break from typing.) I've come back during the afternoon break and am waiting for the OpenMoko session to start. The room is pretty full - I'm guessing that I'm not the [...]
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OpenMind 2007: Monty's Session on Building MySQL Community
I've come in late for Monty's session - everything seems to be running a bit early - how odd.
Monty's is covering mistakes in building communities - he's talking about Dream Box and how they have let their community fragment so deeply. Then he talks about how MySQL has provided a strong central point for the [...]
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OpenMind 2007: Public Sector Benefits from Open Source
Carlos Montero-Luque takes the stage again, presenting a simple overview of how some governments are using Open Source and Open Standards, and the results that they are getting.
I fear that in rushing to get my notes from the other presentation online, I've missed part of this presentation.
As with Tommi, Carlos' slides contain the meat of [...]
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OpenMind 2007: Open Source and Standards in the Finnish Public Sector
Lunch has ended, and - after chatting a bit past the start of the sessions with Fredrik Syversen from IKT Norge, Mats Östling from the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions and Hendrik from a company name that I can't currently recall, I've come in late for the Open Source and Standards in the [...]
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