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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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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 [...]
LCBN Euro Open Source Business Awards 2007
The Linux Business Campus Nuremberg (LBCN) presents annual awards for innovative ideas, well-considered concepts and promising business plans in the field of Open Source and Free Software.
The European Open Source Business Award is presented for innovative business concepts after detailed examination by an expert jury comprising LBCN campus coaches and selected figures from the venture [...]
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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Supporting Development of Norway's Electronic Frontier
Some months ago, around the time of the 2007 eZ Conference, I started working with Tor-Arne Bellika (from Innovation Performance AS) and Aleksander Farstad (from eZ Systems AS) on a series of projects centered around helping to develop Norway's electronic frontier.
The projects are diverse and broad in scope. They range from developing a Free Software [...]
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OpenMind 2007: Monty on the Future (and Past) of Databases
After a break, Tommi Mikkonen of the Tampere University of Technology introduces Monty Widenius (who is, as most readers of this blog will know is one of the founders of MySQL AB)
Monty takes the stage wearing a suit - a nice suit - something I don't recall having seen before.
He starts with an overview [...]
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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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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-08-31
During the week ending on Friday August 31th, I did the following things:
Events
Attended FrOSCon (which was awesome) - need to write report. Briefly, I - gave a session, met and discussed with another FLOSS Foundations member and caught up with a few CACert folks. More later.
Did some followup work for the Internet as a Public [...]
Alfresco Seeking Community Relations Person
A friend of mine who also is also a friend of some of the Alfresco crew asked me to help Alfresco find a community relations person.
I've poked a few friends and sent a note off to a few lists. If you are curious, then check out the job posting on Alfresco's site.
If you are thinking [...]
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