Michael R. Bernstein [06.12.07 02:22 PM]

If I were able to attend, I'd be interested in hearing Eben Moglen talking about the AGPLv3, as well as GPLv3. This has particular relevance to user-facing web applications, and hence Web 2.0.

Will any of this be available as audio or video during or after the briefing?

  anjan bacchu [06.12.07 10:48 PM]

hi there,

i'd be interested in a payware version of the audio/video and slides aka what was made available at Java One 2 years ago.

thank you,

BR,

~A

  Alan Lord [06.13.07 12:22 AM]

My interest is primarily on your second point and I am very interested in HOW we promote Open Source to the SME market. The bigger enterprise are covered and already aware in the main, but, IME the SME is naive. And the normal routes to market (advertising etc) are expensive for the returns... The flip side is there are millions of SMEs :-)

Interesting discussion - I'd love to be there but living in the UK makes that difficult.

Alan
theopensourcerer.com

  Alan Lord [06.13.07 12:23 AM]

My interest is primarily on your second point and I am very interested in HOW we promote Open Source to the SME market. The bigger enterprise are covered and already aware in the main, but, IME the SME is naive. And the normal routes to market (advertising etc) are expensive for the returns... The flip side is there are millions of SMEs :-)

Interesting discussion - I'd love to be there but living in the UK makes that difficult.

Alan
theopensourcerer.com

  Alan Lord [06.13.07 12:25 AM]

My interest is primarily on your second point and I am very interested in HOW we promote Open Source to the SME market. The bigger enterprise are covered and already aware in the main, but, IME the SME is naive. And the normal routes to market (advertising etc) are expensive for the returns... The flip side is there are millions of SMEs :-)

Interesting discussion - I'd love to be there but living in the UK makes that difficult.

Alan
theopensourcerer.com

  Reuven Cohen, CEO Enomaly Labs - Toronto [06.13.07 06:15 AM]

Same old stuff, how about something new for once. I've seen all these speakers many times, yeah open source is more then saving money, blah blah.

  Simon Wardley [06.21.07 05:28 PM]

Hi Tim,

Great topics - my penny worth on the Open source and the web 2.0 economy debate.

Principally there appear to be multiple effects caused by the faster adoption and dissemination of ideas through open source.

Firstly, I'd argue it is driving commoditisation of certain aspects of IT by making it ubiquitous and common.

Secondly, I'd argue its accelerated the rate of innovation and is causing more "creative destruction" (Joseph Schumpeter). This I believe may well be behind the increased turbulence noted by Andrew Mcafee in the high tech industry but I don't believe this will be just be limited to the high tech industry, because ...

Thirdly, I'd argue this meme is not only moving up the stack (as in entire business applications) but also out of the stack (as you mention in open source content, open source hardware etc). This is having impacts in all sorts of areas, for example "news" sources. I'd also suggest it is in a more subtle way driving the expectation for more openness on information in all areas of commerce.

My view on the later point, is that as more reputation based social networked systems of searching develop (an early pointer to this would be BuzzMonitor and BubbleTop) then companies not engaged and responding quickly to this world will find themselves increasingly isolated. Having a company web site just won't cut it. This leads into the whole area of Enterprise 2.0.

So since it's a wish list time, here is mine. It would be wonderful to see a panel discussion of yourself, Nick Carr, Andrew Mcafee, Dirk Riehle, Eben Moglen, Karl Fogel, Wilson D'Souza, John Battelle, Lawrence Lessig, Bruce Sterling and Euan Semple debating these issues.

To me, that would be worth a conference on its own. However, that's the point, I believe it's worth a conference but not necessarily others.

So though I know it would be a logistical nightmare, most likely a failure, and probably has been done already - my suggestion is that for some future conference to have one session where you decide the topic and a key advocate whilst the community chooses the rest of the panel.

It's probably a lame idea, but I'd be interested in the result.