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FOSSNUT: The Free and Open Source Software Norwegian University Tour
LinPro AS (a Norwegian Linux and FLOSS services firm) has organized a speaking tour of Norwegian universities. The tour will visit three Norwegian schools and will focus on introducing students and faculty to Free Software and Open Source. Speakers include FreeBSD & Varnish hacker Dag-Erling Smørgrav, eZ Systems AS CEO Aleksander Farstad and yours truly. The schools we plan to visit [...]
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Session Abstract: The Age of Literate Machines
I've never found this abstract to be terribly engaging. I'll be rewriting it when I get a moment.
Title
The Age of Literate Machines
Summary
Free Software and Open Source are understood to be reshaping technology. What is less understood is how FOSS relates to the future of free societies. During this session, we'll examine how FOSS relates to [...]
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Planning my SCALE 6x Attendance
In about a week, I'll be heading down to Los Angeles to participate in SCALE 6x, the sixth annual Southern California Linux Expo. In addition to visiting the event, I'll be giving my Age of Literate Machines presentation, updated for 2008 and supported by more research. I'll be joining another Mozillion - Chris Blizzard, who [...]
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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-12-21
This week, I:
Wrapped up the open 2007 grant proposals. Some will have to be pushed into 2008. Frank will report on what was approved this year.
Worked on abstracts for German event Leadership by (Open) innovation: Threat or challenge to the Telecommunications, IT and Media industries and American event F2C: Freedom to Connect.
Started revamping The Age [...]
First Partial Remix of the Age of Literate Machines
Paul Scott from the AVOIR project has remixed some of the content and slides from the Age of Literate Machines presentation into one of his own presentations. If you are curious, Age of Literate Machines presentation into one of his own presentations. If you are curious, check out the slides.
Tags: Age of Literate Machines, CMS, [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-11-09
This week focused on events and event planning.
Caught up with Mary Colvig (after missing our bi-weekly events call) to discuss upcoming events and our events strategy for 2008. We focused on the events listed in last week's report.
Worked on expanding the Age of Literate Machines to provide additional focus on the importance of the network [...]
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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-10-26
Traveled to Ljubljana, Slovenia to attend LinuX dan 10:
Presented the Age of Literate Machines as a keynote
Chatted with attendees
Interviewed with local journalist Damjan Franz Lu from NeDeljski (which I think is the major Slovenian daily)
Traveled to Zagreb, Croatia to attend LinuX dan 5.
Pondered the naming convention for the events
Presented the Age of Literate Machines as [...]
Conference Report: OpenMind & MindTrek 2007
OpenMind 2007 and MindTrek 2007 were excellent mid-sized (400+ participants) tech events that brought together a great mix of people - academics, working developers, activists, senior IT management, public servants, industry veterans, innovators and even pirates [0].
Some presentations were lackluster, but the informal discussions were awesome. There [...]
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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-09-28
For the week ending Friday, September 28th, I:
Worked out a plan for attending OpenMind 2007
Had a good chat with David Ascher about MailCo
Traveled to Finland for OpenMind
Next Week
Attend OpenMind - present The Age of Literate Machines as a keynote and network.
Tags: Age of Literate Machines, David Ascher, David Boswell, Finland, Frank Hecker, Gerv, Gervase Markham, [...]
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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