For Geeks, by Geeks: The Open Web Conference
In a binary view of the world, there are two types of of technology conferences: those run with a profit motive and those run for by technologists for technologists.
The Open Web Conference falls into the latter category. It is an event organized by the Vancouver PHP Users Association (who are a bunch of web developers, [...]
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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.
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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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The eZ partner program (a response to Seth Gottlieb's Commercial O/S business post)
In a blog post yesterday, CMS expert and Optarian Seth Gottlieb wonders about the eZ partner program:
> eZ systems has a points program where partners can get points for
> various contributions (answering questions on the forum, attending
> training sessions, submitting sites to the references section, fixing
> bugs, writing documentation, etc.). Points reduce the cost of [...]
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OSCON Highlight: Making Sales While Making Friends
I am really impressed by Matt Asay's presentation on Making Sales While Making Friends: Lessons Learned from Open Source Businesses. I don't entirely agree with all of Matt's conclusions, but the value of material is great. Matt clearly outlines sensible practices and sets reasonable expectations for Free Software/Open Source businesses.
Some of the really sensible (and [...]
About Zak Greant: Bio and Background
Hi! My name is Zak Greant and I've tired of writing things in the third person (at least for today.)
I own a strategic consultancy called Foo Associates – we help technology organizations adapt to and thrive on the electronic frontier. We're a tiny shop, but we've got great clients (like eZ Systems AS and the [...]
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I survived OSCMS, MooseCamp and Northern Voice
… now it is time to get back to the work of getting eZ systems North America going. :)
p.s. Many thanks to Boris, Roland, Kris, Darren, and all the other organizers, volunteers, etc.
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OSCMS is off and running
Boris just gave the opening address to a room full of bleary-eyed geeks (I am amazed that so many of us managed to get up early for a free event). This means that the OSCMS Summit is officially off and running. :) Many thanks to all the organizers and sponsors!
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eZ systems North America Wants You!
As mentioned in a previous post, eZ systems is opening a Vancouver office.
One of our key challenges will be finding the right people to help us build our local team.
Currently, we are looking for people to fill roles roughly like the following:
Regional Sales Director (Job description TBD)
Managing Editor (Job description TBD) Update: Position filled
Senior Office [...]
Sharing information
One of the first discussions that some of the eZ team had with Sandro, when he started his post as our CKO, was how we could deal with the challenge of effectively sharing our information as we continue to grow.
There are many possible solutions for this problem. A lot of them involve long proposals, UML [...]