OpenMind 2007: Opening Plenary
It's 9:15 Finnish time. A bell is politely ringing the attendees into the main room. Attendees come in all shapes and sizes - business people wearing suits, programmers with wild hair and long goatees wearing suits, casually-dressed clean cut young people who are hard to identify as belonging to any discipline.
Petri Räsänen, the executive director of COSS - the Finnish Center for Open Source Solutions - is giving the opening plenary. Petri is a pleasantly competent-looking thirty-something man. His suit is nice, but a bit rumpled and his shoes look comfortable and are some months away from having been shone. His overall demeanor is that of someone who not only gets things done, but who also helps others to get things done.
His mood this morning is buoyant as he opens up the event, thanking the attendees, sponsors, speakers and community.
Some interesting things from his plenary include the number of industry partners that COSS has (126). He points out how vibrant this community is, given the size of Finland (5.3 million people). Petri also mentions how global involvement in COSS is - at OpenMind there are COSS partners and participants from around Europe and the world.
A few barbed slides cover some of the recent hot spots in FLOSS (SCO and the Novell / Microsoft deal) and Petri wraps up with a few thoughts on how FLOSS is changing the business world in disruptive ways.
Then he gives up the floor to Carlos Montero-Luque, the VP of Product Management for Novell's Linux Business Unit.
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