Open Source Delivers

I just returned from POSSCON (Palmetto Open Source Conference) in Columbia, South Carolina.  For a regional open source event, attendance at 700 was pretty sweet (and so was the Southern hospitality!).  Conference attendees range from large commercial organizations to universities to students.  While there are many developer events on the “left coast” there are few [...]

In my last post for Open Source Delivers, I discussed my visit to Nuremberg’s recent Enterprise Open Source Day event in February. In that post I mused about the similarities that might be found at Embedded World, one of Germany’s largest tradeshows. Although Embedded World is a much larger event, attracting companies from all over [...]

Despite all the snow that’s recently blanketed Germany, I was able to attend Enterprise Open Source Day in Nuremberg. Described by its organizers as an event for “open source enthusiasts and fans of the new, modern IT,” this year’s event focused on key trends including agile and mobile. These trends are of course not a [...]

I’ve just returned from the Open Source Conference 2011 in Amsterdam, where a huge crowd – well over 600 attendees, from both the OSS industry and other businesses – gathered to hear the latest in open source (OSS) enabled mobile, cloud and social strategies. The largest OSS-related conference I’ve been to so far, sponsored by [...]

I recently returned from Paris, where I attended both the annual Open Source Think Tank and Open World Forum events. At the Think Tank, I got to brainstorm on the topic of “Open Source Ethos as an Agent of Change,” which essentially looked at how closed source companies use the open source ethos to energize their [...]