There were two guest speakers:

1: George Lambert, Goldenware Technology
2: Mike Pittaro, SnapLogic open source data integration Project implemented in 100% Python

I decided to try something new and record the event on my little sensa mp3 player. The audio is bad at best, but it is mostly audible. We were in Somerville so at some points an airplane goes overhead. If these prove useful to people I will bring better recording equipment next time. My A/V production equipment is tied up on another project so all I did was split the audio into multiple tracks and do a lame re-encode. I tried to keep the files to under 25Meg while splitting based on topics. Unfortunately meetup.com has a 10Meg per file limit and a 100Meg per group max, so that was out of the question. The first file is under 8Meg, so please check that out first and only if you can withstand the audio quality, check out the others. I and my bandwidth will appreciate it.

NOTE: The audio is extremely soft at points and at the beginning, so you will need to crank the volume up.

• Introductions and Django.June recap (mp3, ogg)
• Mass TLC recap, and an extensive discussion on GPLv3, Licensing, Patents, and Python (mp3, ogg)
• Lightning rounds with George Lambert and Mike Pittaro. (mp3, ogg)
• Open Discussion (mp3, ogg)

The software George Lambert mentions which is used to view changes in the GPLv3 draft is Plone! Though there is talk of converting the FSF web site over to a Django based one. I sent an e-mail to the lists giving better information on OLPC for those interested as well. Noah Kantrowitz responded offering to help anyone in the group get started with development.

One of the trademarks of this event is the level of audience interaction. The talks are not passive events where attendees absorb what is spoken up on some shielded dais. As in the past the event is broken down into three parts (legal, business, and community), plus a keynote. The plan is to have the event recorded, both audio and video, for release in multiple mediums.

Legal

The legal discussion will be on the GPLv3, both the road traveled so far and what the future holds. The process has been extremely open with the community participating in its drafting on an unprecedented level. This panel discussion is a continuation of that effort as well as an examination of that effort.

Business

The corporate panel discussion is not what one would normally expect. There is no real summary description for this panel due to the nature of it. How do you describe an open discussion? I will try. Listening to marketing folks from large companies describe why their open source strategy is the winner is not that interesting or rewarding. The focus here is on the audience and learning from the successes and failures of local companies large and small. Businesses who rely on Open Source are really relying on the communities they foster. The audience is made up of those communities and budding open source based ventures. Here is a chance to discuss the strategies of the day and get a greater understanding for this complex and thriving ecosystem.

Community

For the community section this year we are trying something new. Mark Withington of the Boston PHP group is running a Lightning talk session. These are ~5min presentations by local community members. These can be very exciting. One problem with any conference is that not all topics will interest all people. You also want to have a good range of topics. The purpose of the event is to foster Open Source in Massachusetts. this is done by building relationships and helping connect people. This can be hard for a small event such as ours. Lightning talks offer a great opportunity for this. For the general audience, they are given information dense overviews of topics and events they are interested in. If you are not interested in a topic, just like the local weather, just wait 5min. Presenters, while limited by time, are forced to communicate only the core information they need to get across. The idea is to engage the audience and get them interested in what you have to say. The point is not to answer all the questions an attendee might have for you or your project, but to just get the interested and hungry for more information. After all the talks are completed there will be a break before the keynote and space for attendees to gather and talk to the Lightning Talk presenters. Here is where connections are made and presenters can connect to those who are really interested in what they have to say, and can focus on exactly what people are interested in.

OLPC Keynote

As I have mentioned here and elsewhere, I feel that the software effort behind the OLPC project has been playing second fiddle to the hardware. There has been much attention given to the ‘laptop’, the innovative hardware technology, and some on the ‘child friendly’ interface. Very little has been discussed about the revolutionary new operating system being developed. Did you know the firmware is hardware independent? Did you know that while the kernel is based on Red Hat Fedora, the higher level operating system, including the file system is written in a dynamic interpreted language? Did you know that all you have to do is press a button on the laptop and you get to modify the code for whatever application is currently running? Did you know this is all done securely and using a revolutionary process management system where each process gets its own VM? This is not linux. This is something else entirely, and yes it is 100% open source. I will be handing out the Sugar SDK Live CD which includes a full linux development environment for developing applications for this revolutionary new system.

The Details

Second Annual Open Source Summit
Tuesday, June 19, 2007; 7:30 am registration; 8-12:30 pm
Microsoft, 201 Jones Road, Waltham, MA

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 (moderator)
• 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

• Jay Batson, EIR, North Bridge Venture Partners (moderator)
• Larry Alston, VP of Corporate Strategy, Iona
• Andy Astor, President and Chief Executive Officer, enterpriseDB
• Craig Dillon, Director of Enterprise Solutions, Microsoft
• Don Fisher, VP of Online Services, Red Hat
• Douglas Heintzman, director of strategy, IBM Software Group
• Justin Steinman, Director of Linux Marketing, Novell

10:00 am — Break

10:15 am — Lightning Rounds – Moderated by Mark Withington, founder & acting president, BostonPHP.org

• Akaza Research – Benjamin Baumann
• Apatar – Renat Khasanshyn, Founder and CEO
• BlackDuck – Jim Berets, Is the Sr Dir of Product Management for BlackDuck
• Drupal – Jay Batson EIR North Bridge Venture Partners
• enterpriseDB – Andy Astor, President and Chief Executive Officer
• IBM – Jean Barlage, Marketing Manager, ISV & Developer Relations
  
• Plone 3.0 – Nate Aune
• Simula Labs DevZuz – David Schwartz, VP, Business Development
• SnapLogic – Mike Pittaro
• SofCheck – Kent Bradford, VP – Sales & Mktg
• SugarCRM – Kelly Ann Bagley, Corporate Account Executive

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 Krstic, Director of Security Architecture, OLPC

DIRECTIONS to Microsoft, 201 Jones Road, Waltham

(Interactive Map & Driving Directions also at http://www.microsoft.com/about/companyinformation/usaoffices/northeast/waltham.mspx)

From Downtown/Airport:
Follow 1-93 South to 1-90 West (Mass Turnpike). Mass Turnpike West to Exit 15 (1-95/Rte 128 North). I-95/Rte 128 North to Exit 26 (Route 20 – first exit North of Mass Turnpike). Follow Route 20 East through first stoplight. Take next left turn on Stow Street (following signs for Route 117). Take left at Main Street (Route 117 West) stoplight,then take second left onto Jones Road, at the blinking yellow light. Waltham Weston Corporate Center is located at the end of Jones Road (201 Jones Road). There is a parking garage under the building. Take the elevator to the 6th floor. You can also park in any lot around the building. When you reach the 6th floor, turn left and follow the corridor on your left.

From the South:
I-95/Rte 128 North to Exit 26 (Route 20 – first exit North of Mass Turnpike). Follow Route 20 East through first stoplight. Take next left turn on Stow Street (following signs for Route 117). Take left at Main Street (Route 117 West) stoplight,then take second left onto Jones Road, at the blinking yellow light. Waltham Weston Corporate Center is located at the end of Jones Road (201 Jones Road). There is a parking garage under the building. Take the elevator to the 6th floor. You can also park in any lot around the building. When you reach the 6th floor, turn left and follow the corridor on your left.

From the North:
I-95/Rte 128 South to Exit 26 (Route 20). Continue on rotary following signs for Route 20 East through first stoplight. Take next left turn on Stow Street (following signs for Route 117). Take left at Main Street (Route 117 West) stoplight,then take second left onto Jones Road, at the blinking yellow light. Waltham Weston Corporate Center is located at the end of Jones Road (201 Jones Road). There is a parking garage under the building. Take the elevator to the 6th floor. You can also park in any lot around the building. When you reach the 6th floor, turn left and follow the corridor on your left.

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/programs_new/event_single.cfm?eventid=787