« Going Open | Main | Europe is missing an opportunity »
May 30, 2005
Amsterdam is Open
My first impression of Amsterdam was: I'll be run over either by a bike or a tram. Luckily, so far I have survived and the first day at the HollandOpen conference was pretty interesting. The conference is mainly in English and this is surprising because it is - after all - a Dutch Open Source conference. 400 people attending and the conference contains a wide mix of Open Source related topics. I spoke in the business session, together with Alan Williamson from SpikeSource, Marcel den Hartog from Computer Associates and Francois Letellier from ObjectWeb. We each gave an overview of what our companies are doing in the Open Source business area and how we got there. Other sessions today focussed on Open Government (a topic that seems to be extremely on the move here in the Netherlands), Applications and E-learning. Unfortunately these are in parallel, so you can only listen to one.
They keynotes this morning were from Scott Handy (IBM), Madanmohan Rao (Asian Media Information and Communication centre), Jesus Villasante (EU commission) and Stefaan van Hooydonk (Agfa).
Posted by Matthew at May 30, 2005 08:06 PM