Tuesday, June 19, 2007; 7:30 am registration; 8-12:00 pm
Microsoft, 201 Jones Road, Waltham, MA (map)
Join us for this half-day summit as technology leaders discuss the current state of open source and the implementation of collaborative development models. The program will spotlight innovative open source companies in a rapid fire lightning round session. The summit will culminate with a keynote presentation on OLPC (One Laptop Per Child), an initiative lead by Nicholas Negroponte, as recently featured on 60 Minutes.
8:00 am — Opening Remarks
8:15 am — The Year in Review and the Years to Come: GPL3 and what it tells us about the current and future prospects of free and open source software. A member of each of the four GPL 3 Committees will review the new license, the process by which it was promulgated, and what it all tells us about the current state of free and open source software.
- Karen Copenhaver, Partner, Choate, Hall & Stewart
- Ira Heffan, Associate, Goodwin Proctor
- Scott K. Peterson, Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property, Hewlett-Packard Company / Andover, MA
- David Rickerby, Partner, Choate Hall & Stewart
9:00 am — Open Source Strategies
- Larry Alston, VP of Corporate Strategy, Iona
- Robert Sutor, VP Standards & Open Source, IBM
- Don Fisher, VP of Online Services, Red Hat
- Justin Steinman, Director of Linux Marketing, Novell
10:00 am — Break
10:15 am — Lightning Rounds
- Andromeda
- BlackDuck
- DevZuz (Simula labs)
- Drupal
- enterpriseDB
- Please contact the Open Source Cluster Advisory Board at tom@masstlc.org if you are interested in presenting during the lightning round session.
11:15 am — OLPC Keynote. One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization aiming to redefine learning and education for the world’s children by providing each child with a specially-developed, innovative, and low-cost laptop. We will introduce the initiative and then dive into the challenging engineering behind the OLPC software platform, covering everything from its unusual firmware to its new child-friendly GUI.
- Ivan Krstić , Director of Security Architecture, OLPC (One Laptop Per Child)
Cost: Members/Non-Members, $20/$40
Sponsors: Choate, Hall & Stewart; IBM
Register Online : http://function.masstlc.org
Hey Doug- there is an alternative to Zen Cart now called PloneGetPaid. It’s gotten a lot of attention lately (including sponsorship) and there will be a sprint at the end of this month at the GooglePlex in Mountain View, CA. The product has been developed by Kapil, so it’s sure to be a sound architecture.
-Nate