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OpenMind 2007: What does G(PE)^2 bring to the mobile space?

The next presentation is focused on G(PE)^2, a GUI for Linux-based mobile phones. It is similar to OpenMoko. I'd love to blog about the session, but I've been typing like a maniac for most of the day and my head is pretty full of the OpenMoko stuff.
If you are curious, check out the G(PE)^2 website [...]

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OpenMind 2007: OpenMoko - The Truly Open Mobile Phone Platform

I skipped out on the previous session so that I could get my electric plug adapter from my room (and to get a break from typing.) I've come back during the afternoon break and am waiting for the OpenMoko session to start. The room is pretty full - I'm guessing that I'm not the [...]

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OpenMind 2007: Monty's Session on Building MySQL Community

I've come in late for Monty's session - everything seems to be running a bit early - how odd.
Monty's is covering mistakes in building communities - he's talking about Dream Box and how they have let their community fragment so deeply. Then he talks about how MySQL has provided a strong central point for the [...]

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OpenMind 2007: Public Sector Benefits from Open Source

Carlos Montero-Luque takes the stage again, presenting a simple overview of how some governments are using Open Source and Open Standards, and the results that they are getting.
I fear that in rushing to get my notes from the other presentation online, I've missed part of this presentation.
As with Tommi, Carlos' slides contain the meat of [...]

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OpenMind 2007: Open Source and Standards in the Finnish Public Sector

Lunch has ended, and - after chatting a bit past the start of the sessions with Fredrik Syversen from IKT Norge, Mats Östling from the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions and Hendrik from a company name that I can't currently recall, I've come in late for the Open Source and Standards in the [...]

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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: Standardization, Industry-Community Cooperations and Mobile Linux

After Carlos, Nils Faerber from LiPS (a Linux telephony consortium that includes telephony operators, hardware vendors and software vendors) takes the stage.
Nils looks much more like we image an Open Source developer to look - more like a character from User Friendly than a character from Dilbert.
He gives a high-level overview of the current state [...]

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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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OpenMind 2007

I woke up to a dull-grey dawn. Clouds hung low over Tampere and the last wisps of a fine drizzle were coming down outside. I rushed into my running clothes and took a quick jog down to the lake the that the conference hotel is set against. The morning was perfect running weather - cool [...]