April 18th, 2008 ( Updated: April 19th, 2008 )
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 on:
- The unassuming Adrian Bowyer, whose RepRap presentation (and entire project) blew my mind;
- Anders Werp, IT progressive mayor of Øvre Eiker and chairman of the Norwegian National Competance Center for Free Software.
- Bjørn Remseth, a participant in the EFN (Electronic Frontier Norway) who chatted with me after the event about what the EFN is up to these days;
- Bob Jolliffe, a saavy South African electronic frontierist who shared musings on questions big and small over dinner with Steve Pepper and I; Here is a video of Bob speaking on the state of patent rights in Africa at the Digital Freedom Expo (with an introduction by Vint Cerf.)
- Chris DiBona and Simon Phipps, top Open Source hominids for Google and Sun respectively, with whom which I spent some time talking shop;
- Christer Gundersen and Heidi Arnesen Austlid from the Norwegian National Competance Center for Free Software, who were the ringmasters of the circus - congratulations on a great event!
- Håkon Wium Lie, who is enthusiastically fighting The Power (in this case Microsoft) by resisting OOXML and — through his work at Opera Software — participating in an upcoming antitrust complaint against Microsoft. Håkon and I also agree to do an interview about the Mozilla Manifesto;
- Martin Bekkelund, a Norwegian electronic frontierist did a great job of documenting parts of the conference and the anti-OOXML protest;
- Øystein Jakobsen, who is working on developing the tools people need to be informed consumers in societies where there are deep, complex and strange production chains;
- Øyvind Hauge, key author of a recent study on open source and free software integration in Norway.
- Rikke Holten, from communitybuilder, who handled many of the logistics for Go Open and who I am sure has other excellent conferences up her sleeve.
- Steve Pepper, former chair of the Norwegian OOXML committee and current protester against the process used to approve OOXML (though we can still appeal). One of his major projects is Topic Maps, the description of which blew my mind just an hour or so after I managed to reset my me mental fuse after seeing Adrian's RepRap session;
- Trond Heier, CTO of Linpro, who always has interesting ideas to share. We talked a bit about the Mozilla Manifesto and I will follow up with an interview with him on the topic;
There is more, of course — these are people who came to mind.
Link Summary
- http://friprog.no/ez/index.php?/nor/English
- http://people.bath.ac.uk/ensab/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprap
- http://www.werp.no
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98vre_Eiker
- http://friprog.no
- http://www.rmz.priv.no/
- http://efn.no/eng-index.html
- http://topicmaps.wordpress.com
- http://video.google.c...d=7162903738051986000
- http://digitalfreedom.uwc.ac.za/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinton_Cerf
- http://egofood.blogspot.com/
- http://www.webmink.net/
- http://people.opera.com/howcome/
- http://noooxml.com
- http://www.opera.com/
- http://www.mozilla.or...ozilla-manifesto.html
- http://www.bekkelund.net/
- http://oyvindhauge.net/
- http://www.communitybuilder.dk/
- http://www.ontopia.ne...ps/materials/tao.html
- http://www.linpro.no/en/om_linpro/ledelsen
- http://linpro.no
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