"Guerilla Evangelism: Opening Closed Environments" talk at EuroOSCON
At the 2004 Foo Camp, Danese Cooper, a few other FLOSS advocates (forgive me, Foo Camp is a blur and I don't remember who you were) and myself gave an ad hoc session on the methods and strategies that we each used to advocate FLOSS and to help people working closed environments become more open.
The session was a blast (and well-received), so much so that Danese and I proposed the session for last year's OSCON. We didn't make the cut, but I still tried again for this year's EuroOSCON and, this time, the session was accepted.
The session should be fun to present, but a bit of a bear to write. I have only 45 minutes to try to fit in the most interesting things that I've learned while helping with a bunch of different project and companies, including the PHP team, MySQL AB, eZ systems, the Mozilla Foundation, the Free Software Foundation, legal firms and so on.
For the curious, the session description is below.
Guerilla Evangelism: Opening Closed Environments
This tutorial is for hackers, managers, entrepreneurs and developers who want a crash course on how to successfully introduce Free/Open software and methodologies into closed environments.
Key topics will include: the dynamics of Free/Open communities and related business dynamics; advocating the adoption of Free/Open software and processes; creating sane processes for using and releasing Free/Open software.
Attendees will also learn the key bits of community savvy, suity business acumen and cryptic legal knowledge required to make their efforts go more smoothly.
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