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October 19, 2005
[EuroOSCON] Conference Day 2
The keynotes are underway and Jason Matusow, Director of Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative is announcing new licenses as part of their shared source initiative. The new licenses are: MS Permissive License (Ms-PL), Microsoft Community License (Ms-CL) and Microsoft Reference License (Ms-RL).
Paul Everitt's keynote on the Lisbon Agenda and Open Source stood out this morning with a good focus on a European theme and his presentation was spot on for the conference.
I do however think it was a mistake to scale back the keynote length to only 15 minutes. This is something they have started doing this year and I don't think it works. 15 minutes is just too cramped and results in the keynoters either rushing through stuff or overrunning their time. So bring back longer keynotes! (And no, it's not just because I want to see Paula on stage for longer :-)).
Also, I think some praise is in order for the O'Reilly folks. The conference organization is pretty good (from my limited view) and I especially think they have done a great job with WiFi and power sockets. Those perhaps two most important things are everywhere.
And now, on to the sessions.
Posted by Matthew at October 19, 2005 09:45 AM