Larry Augustin's Weblog: Spring 2009 Open Source ThinkTank One Week Away

February 23, 2009

Spring 2009 Open Source ThinkTank One Week Away

This coming Sunday (March 1) through Tuesday (March 3) is the annual Open Source ThinkTank in Napa. As always it looks to be a great event for networking and brainstorming on commercial Open Source.

If you will be attending and would like to spend some time 1-on-1 please drop me an email and we can set aside some time. If you are active in commercial Open Source and interested in attending drop me an email.

If you have not attended an Open Source ThinkTank previously, the format of the event is designed to maximize interaction among the attendees. Topics are business oriented and all participants work together to share ideas and develop potential solutions to the business challenges facing commercial open source. All participants are expected to actively contribute.

The agenda includes:

Group Sessions with business-oriented topics
Brainstorming Meetings, where the groups are structured to represent across-section of the industry, a particular topic form the general session is discussed and group presents their findings back to the full conference

Interactive audience voting, throughout the event, where questions will be posed to the audience for immediate response and tabulation
Panels representing a cross-section of commercial open source companies and customers discussing what is most important to them about open source software
Organized Networking and social activities

The conference allows experienced participants to work together to share ideas and develop
potential solutions to the business challenges facing the future of commercial open source.

I look forward to seeing everyone there.

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Robert Jordan: Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, Book 11)
I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I'm still reading Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series. When he passed L. Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth decology I could have cried. Maybe WoT will be made into the worst movie of all time? Still, I've been following the saga of Rand al'Thor for more than a decade now, and I want to see how it ends. Rumor is that the next book, Memory of Light, will in fact conclude the saga. To borrow a phrase, "There should have been only one." (**)
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
My family got me Quicksilver for Christmas. I'm not far into it, but it's clearly a Stephenson book: lots of historical connections, multiple timeline unfolding simultaneously, meticulous historical detail, 100 pages in the plot is still a total mystery, big "thud"factor... Should be a great read.
Chris DiBona: Open Sources 2.0
Anything edited by Chris DiBona is worth spending the time to read.
David Kahn: The Codebreakers : The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
I'm just getting started with this one, but so far it's a fascinating account of the history of cryptology. It's a massive 1200 pages, so it may be a while before I move on to something else.

My Events

You can find me at these upcoming events
2010-07-21 to 2010-07-22 OSCON.
I'll be at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) on Wednesday and Thursday. SugarCRM engineer John Mertic is speaking at OSCON.
2010-07-28 AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford.
Jeff Kaplan of THINKstrategies is moderating a panel session at the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford including Marten Mickos, Swayne Hill, Treb Ryan, Lars Buytaert, and me. I'm looking forward to a great discussion.
2010-09-27 to 2010-09-29 Paris Open Source ThinkTank.
Olliance Open Source ThinkTanks are always great events, and I'll thrilled to be at the Paris event again this year.
2010-09-30 to 2010-10-01 Open World Forum.
I am speaking at the Open World Forum (OWF) in Paris on Oct 1, 2010. I am also a judge in the OWF Open Innovation Demo Cup. Be sure to submit your project before July 31 for consideration.
2010-10-05 London CRM Acceleration.
SugarCRM will hold a CRM Acceleration in London on October 5, 2010.
2010-10-21 Munich CRM Acceleration.
SugarCRM will hold a CRM Acceleration in Munich on October 21, 2010.
2010-10-25 Cap Gemini Open Your Mind.
I'm speaking in the Netherlands at Open Your Mind, an event sponsored by Cap Gemini on Open Source.

(Some of) My Favorite People

Chris DiBona
Chris is a just plain great person and stand-up guy. He's also the Open Source program manager at Google.
Doc Searls
Doc is the senior editor at Linux Journal and one of the four authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto, the iconoclastic web site that became the best-selling book.
Matt Asay
Matt is the founder of OSBC, and currently runs business development at Alfresco.
r0ml Lefkowitz
The r0ml is one of the most entertaining and insightful commentators on the state of the IT industry that I know.
Stephen Walli
I first met Stephen when he worked at Microsoft, and I organized a dinner at OSCON between Eric Raymond and a number of the Microsoft Shared Source team. I liked him even then so that should tell you a lot.

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