20000 km, $7000, 7 days and 4 tons of CO2

… or, "Making Event Attendance Count"
Late last year, I gave a keynote at paired Finnish conferences MindTrek and OpenMind. While the events were well worth attending, afterwards I spent a few bleak hours thinking about the actual costs of my attendance. If I had left Canada just for these events (which, thankfully, I [...]

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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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French Free Software/Open Source Lawyers

A few weeks ago, I asked my LinkedIn network for help finding a French lawyer or law firm who has a good knowledge of Free Software and Open Source. To my surprise, I received a few recommendations, which I've listed below:

Cyril Rojinsky
The law firm of Iteanu
Marc Lipskier of Bird & Bird
Maître Sebastian van Teslaar (+33.6.61.13.02.22)

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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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