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: 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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GPL v3 Last Call

The FSF just announced that the last draft of the GPL v3 is ready for review and comment. The FSF will hear comments for the next month and expects to officially publish the license on Friday, June 29, 2007.
To participate, visit http://gplv3.fsf.org.
Changes in this draft include:

GPLv3 is now compatible with version 2.0 of the Apache [...]

Attending the GPLv3 Launch at MIT

Bright and early Sunday morning, I will be flying off to Boston to attend the GPL version 3 launch at MIT.
I am betting on heated discussions and a wild mix of Free Software fanatics, FSF staff from around the world, the Free Culture crowd (EFF, the super awesome Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons staff, …), corporate [...]