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Tag Archives: conference
Event and conference listing for Linux and open source in 2010
I’ve started putting together a listing of open source and Linux events that will take place in 2010 around the world. The list is small right now, but if you add a comment here or send me a message via … Continue reading
Keynotes announced for LinuxCon 2009
The Linux Foundation has announced the keynotes for LinuxCon 2009. These are: Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier, openSUSE Community Manager, Novell; Bdale Garbee, Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist at Hewlett Packard; Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of the Ubuntu distribution and Canonical; and … Continue reading
OpenSource World call for papers ends on Friday
If you were thinking of submitting a paper to the OpenSource World conference in San Francisco, August 12-13, the call for papers ends this Friday.
Oslo in April
I’ll be giving the last talk at the Go Open conference in Oslo, Norway, on April 9. The conference starts the previous day and includes such cool open source speakers as Chris DiBona of Google and Simon Phipps of Sun. … Continue reading
Coming up for air
I’ve been in North Carolina for a couple of days, first to speak on a panel at the Globalization 2008 Conference in RTP, and then to visit some family down in Wilmington. It was a great visit all around, though … Continue reading
My talk today in Warsaw
I’m giving a brief talk today on a panel at the Interoperability Conference in Warsaw. On panels I’m not usually sure whether I’ll be expected to use a presentation or not. If my initial comments are 5 minutes or less, … Continue reading
Third city in Germany
I’m now more than halfway through my trip to Germany, having had meetings in Stuttgart and spoken at the Open Source Meets Business Conference in Nuremberg. Last night I flew to my third city of the week and I’ll head … Continue reading
Open Source Meets Business Conference
I’m going to be participating in the Open Source Meets Business Conference that is taking place on January 22–24, 2008, in Nuremberg, Germany. I tried to be there last year, but got snowed out in my travel plans. On Tuesday, … Continue reading
Southern California Linux Expo 6x – Call for Papers
I just got an email from Ilan Rabinovitch saying that the call for papers for the Southern California Linux Expo 6x ends tomorrow, Friday. You can learn more at their website, along with the descriptions of their programs on “Women … Continue reading
Sakai Conference in December
I’ll be giving the Wednesday morning keynote at the 8th Sakai Conference in Newport Beach, California. The conference runs from Tuesday, December 5, through Friday, December, 7. Sakai is an open source project used for course management and learning, particularly … Continue reading
Balanced Scorecard North American Summit: Executing on Innovation
I’ll be speaking at the conference “Balanced Scorecard North American Summit: Executing on Innovation” in San Francisco on November 7. The title of my talk will be “Breaking with Tradition: Making the Transition to Open Innovation at IBM.”
TCI Global Competitiveness Conference in Portland, Oregon
I’ll be giving the lunch keynote at the TCI Global Competitiveness Conference in Portland on Wednesday. The info about the talk is From Closed to Open—How the Technology Industry Learned to Share Wednesday, October 10, 12-1:30 pm In the IT … Continue reading
Wednesday: OECD in Ottawa
I’ll be speaking this Wednesday at the OECD-Canada Forum on the Participative Web: Strategies and Policies for the Future. There have been a few flavors of the title of my talk floating around, the latest is “Virtual worlds, web blogs, … Continue reading
links for 2007-06-25
A Fairway View, but the Window Is Often Broken – New York Times I’m sure these folks were assured that there wouldn’t be any trouble, though it’s hard to understand why they believed that. (tags: golf realestate) OpenOffice conference publishes … Continue reading
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Harvard KSG next week
When I was up at MIT last week for the virtual worlds conference, my daughter asked me on the phone whether it was nice to be back in Cambridge. I replied that it was, though I said that it wasn’t … Continue reading
Video of “Virtual Worlds: Where Business, Society, Technology & Policy Converge”
Video from last Friday’s virtual world’s conference at MIT is now available in RealPlayer format. The links are available in the left-hand column of the agenda. In some cases, multiple sessions are contained in a single video segment.
links for 2007-06-16
Virtual Worlds 2007 – Virtual Worlds Conference – produced by Virtual Worlds Management “Virtual Worlds Fall takes place October 10-11, 2007 at the San Jose Convention Center. VW Fall is a multi-track conference and expo with a focus on virtual … Continue reading
links for 2007-05-12
Smorgasbord At USC, developing game coders | CNET News.com “USC’s video game programs have borne significant fruit, in large part because the school has made it clear to the industry, and to students interested in being part of the industry, … Continue reading
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OASIS Symposium keynote
I’ve now put online the slides I used for my keynote at the OASIS Symposium this morning. Warning: these are very minimalist but you might have fun imagining what I said around these few words. The advice section is for … Continue reading
OASIS Symposium next week
As I mentioned last month, I’ll be delivering a keynote at the OASIS Symposium in San Diego next Monday morning. I’ll try to set the context for why we’re seeing the opposition to smart, sensible open standards like ODF and … Continue reading
links for 2007-04-03
O’Reilly Radar > OASIS Symposium on OpenDocument Format “The OASIS Symposium on open standards is hosting a workshop April 18th in San Diego on the OpenDocument format (ODF).” (tags: oasis odf)
Back to Harvard
I’m spending today and tomorrow in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s program on “Cross-Boundary Governance through Agreements and Standards: Assuring Compliance and Results”. I’ll try to bring many of the things I’ve discussed in this blog … Continue reading
The fourth annual OASIS Symposium
I’ll be delivering the keynote at the fourth annual OASIS Symposium to be held this year in San Diego from April 15th to the 17th. I’ll be speaking on the morning of the 16th and, according to the press release, … Continue reading
From New Haven to Helsinki
I’m in the middle of a seven day trip that had me fly to New York City on Friday, drive to the IBM offices and then on to New Haven, Connecticut, that evening. On Saturday I participated in the standards … Continue reading
Yale on Saturday
During the 1980s, my wife and I lived in New Haven while she attended grad school. Now I’m returning to that fair city for only the second time in almost two decades to speak at the Yale Information Society Project … Continue reading
Virtual Worlds 2007 conference
Someone passed along this info via the site contact form and I thought it would useful to mention here for anyone who might be interested. I have no personal idea about how this is being organized or the expected quality. … Continue reading
No Nuremberg
Weather and plane maintenance problems have conspired against my speaking at the Open Source Meets Business in Nuremberg, Germany, this week. In case you are interested, my 6 hours at the airport went something like this: I arrived at the … Continue reading
Nuremberg next week
I’ll be giving a keynote on the Investment Day of the Open Source Meets Business conference in Nuremberg, Germany, next Tuesday. The talk is called “Open and Private Source: The Business Model behind IBM’s Software Strategy.” The abstract is In … Continue reading
Finland in February
I’ll be speaking on Tuesday, February 6, in Helsinki, Finland, at the Verso Open Source Business Programme 2007.
Frontiers of Intellectual Property slide: “SOA accommodates both open and proprietary”
Another slide for discussion from my talk at the University of Texas School of Law: SOA accommodates both open and proprietary but only in the right places Service Oriented Architecture is the leading trend in building flexible, efficient, distributed computing … Continue reading
