Go Open 2008: People
As usual for a conference, I spent almost all of the time I was at Go Open 2008 talking with people (and occasionally talking at people.)
The following is a list of people I talked with (or listened to) along with the interesting or exciting things that they shared with me or that they're working on:
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OOXML: Go To Hell!
Demonstration against OOXML, originally uploaded by Martin Bekkelund.
It is a day after the Go Open conference in Oslo and I am still holed up in a hotel nearby. Blearily stumbling down to breakfast, I was confronted with a mix of lukewarm meatballs, easy listening radio — both of which are common enough to encounter in [...]
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Early Coverage of Go Open 2008
Day two of Go Open is just about to get started. Already, there's a good amount of coverage in the Norwegian press on the event. I have made a pitiful attempt to translate the titles of the articles, mostly for the amusement of my Norwegian friends.
Alexander V. Røyne blogged, go open day 2008 1: Chris [...]
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Resources for Go Open Keynote
During the keynote at the Go Open conference in Oslo, I am going to be mentioning several papers and articles. I've included links and a brief summary of each below:
Paper: Adoption of Open Source in The Software Industry
An excellent research paper paper produced by Reidar Conradi, Øyvind Hauge and Carl-Fredrik Sørensen from the Norwegian University [...]
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Coaching the Next Generation of FOSS Developers
Each year it seems that there are more and more grumblings about how commercial Open Source conferences are moving further and further away from Free Software and Open Source communities. Incongruously, some of the loudest (or at least most noticed) complaining comes from some of the most consistent participants on the conference circuit. I myself [...]
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Recommendations for OpenLogic's Open Source Census
Last week, I was excited by, and then disappointed with, OpenLogic's Open Source Census project – while the project has promise, OpenLogic planned to license the complete data set only to project sponsors (and I didn't feel that they were being very forthright about the matter.)
Stormy Peters, OpenLogic's community manager caught up with me to [...]
eLiberatica Abstract: Understanding Free Software and Open Source Licensing
Much to my friend Lucian's dismay, I have been sitting (a.k.a. not doing a damn thing) on the abstracts for my upcoming sessions at the Romanian eLiberatica conference.
The first abstract is easy — I will present a slightly modified version of my Age of Literate Machines presentation.
The second session will take a little bit more [...]
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Helping Businesses Catch the Cluetrain
Back in the misty reaches of time — just before the last millennium turned, to be precise — four smart people got together to write about the growing gap between companies and markets. The result was called "The Cluetrain Manifesto", a cogent and plainly-written set of theses about how the Internet changes some of the [...]
Open Source Census Results Not Open Source?
Earlier today I wrote about the Open Source Census project, wondering what license the data collected would be distributed under.
After reading the sponsorship page for the project, I believe that OpenLogic intends to restrict distribution of the data gathered, as indicated by the following quote from the page:
Platinum sponsorship is designed for companies that want [...]
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FrOSCon 2008 Call for Papers Now Open
David Roetzel from the FrOSCon organization team just wrote to let me know that the FrOSCon 2008 call for papers has just opened.
FrOSCon is a great, community-focused and community-run free software and open source conference. Each year it brings together hundreds of some of the most engaged FOSS project members from across Europe and beyond.
The [...]
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