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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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: The Novell Keynote

Carlos Montero-Luque, the VP of Product Management for Novell's Linux Business Unit, takes the stage to give an overview of Novell's Open Source strategy and role in the market, along with how partnering is a key part of Free Software and Open Source business
If one would expect all BigCo software execs to be clued in [...]

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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 [...]

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