27th October 2011 – 6:30PM – Openness and the Meshed Society
Our society – government, laws, economy, businesses, education – all evolved in response to the hub-and-spoke economy of the industrial revolution and its perfection in the mid 20th century.
But today's society has a different topology – a peer-to-peer mesh.
Open source helps us to understand why radical openness is actually the rational response and the workable path forward. I'll explore these topics and explain why software freedom needs to be our inspiration.
Simon Phipps is a well-known and respected leader in the Free software community, computer industry veteran Simon Phipps has been involved at a strategic level in some of the world's leading technology companies. He has worked in such hands-on roles as field engineer, programmer and systems analyst, as well as run a software publishing company. He worked with OSI standards in the eighties, on the first commercial collaborative conferencing software in the nineties, and helped introduce both Java and XML at IBM. Today he takes an active interest in Free and Open Source software organisations, including the advisory boards of OpenSolaris, OpenJDK, OpenSPARC and GNOME, and is a widely read thought-leader.
He will be present a special Bird Of Feather around Openness, new collaboration & recontribution paradigm.
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Dear All, First of all, thank you ever so much for participating in fOSSa 2011 and contributing to the successful outcomes of the event! It was a real nice and creative moment: THANKS! Special thanks go to all the speakers which have given their valuable contribution to the discussion [...]
Here are some pictures taken during the conference last week You can also look at them through flickr as well 
Here are Nancy White skecth notec taken during the fOSSa 2011 conference (low resolution but click on the picture to get the bigger version!).
No you don't dream! fOSSa members are taking the famous fOSSa tshirt all over the wortd and take pictures… Here the one takem from Spago/Enginnering Group (Andrea Gioia) in China!!!!
We have another surprise for you! Indeed, Dave Neary (Famous OSS contributor - Gnome, Gimp, Meego, MeeGo, Maemo & Openwengo projects) will be present on Friday 28th of October 2011 at fOSSa.. He will present a special talk about the future: Technology – Invisible or Ubiquitous? Science fiction films have [...]
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