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April 07, 2005
OSBC - a day of talking
Although I'm dog tired (I've been awake since 2 am this morning) I've spent today meeting and talking to a load of very interesting people.
For breakfast I met up with Gina and Nat from O'Reilly to talk about EuroOSCON. Expect more on that conference soon. I then spent some time talking to the guys from Optaros and got invited to their lunch event (yeah I suck up to anyone who'll get me something to eat).
There, I chatted to Robert (roml) Lefkowitz who now works for Optaros as Vice president, Research and Education. An interesting title - and he told me that one of his main roles is educating CIOs on the "Open Source proposition". During lunch (and by chance) I sat next to Jay Hansen, the CEO of Avalanche. Avalanche is a corporate technology cooperative that provides the infrastructure for corporations to share technology and intellectual property.
A short pre-lunch break allowed me to (at last) actually meet Ross Mayfield from Socialtext who was busy pitching their corporate wiki/weblog solution to many interested parties. After lunch I met Leon Gommans from Rotterdam CS. Leon is putting on the Holland Open conference at the end of May. Together we then joined up with Matt Asay to talk about the plans to bring the OSBC conference over to Europe. I also managed to listen to very interesting keynotes from Marten Mickos (MySQL) and Larry Lessig
So, yes, it's been a busy day. But worth every minute.
Posted by Matthew at April 7, 2005 02:20 AM