June 11, 2006
Proprietary Software Company Views
The SIG held a meeting June 6, 2006, at Schwartz Communications in Waltham, MA. Panelists were: Bob Sutor, Vice President of Open Source & Standards, IBM; Karen Tegan Padir, Vice President, Enterprise Java Platforms, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; and Omar Tazi, Chief Open Source Evangelist, Middleware and Tools, Oracle Corporation. Bob Zurek and Dan Bricklin moderated. A summary at the end was made by Karen Copenhaver. The meeting was sponsored by Choate, Hall & Stewart.
There was a recording made. See the "Proprietary Company Views" page.
Posted by danb at 05:46 PM
December 07, 2005
Other Enterprise meeting recording available
The first part of the meeting is now available as a downloadable recording.
You will find a link to the recording on the wiki on the "Open Source and the Enterprise: Enterprise Adoption" page.
Posted by danb at 05:28 PM
December 02, 2005
Open Source and the Enterprise meeting
The SIG held a meeting December 1, 2005, at PTC's Visitor Center titled "Open Source and the Enterprise: Enterprise Adoption". The meeting had two parts. The first was a presentation by Nicholas Gall, VP and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner Research. He talked about OSS, the current state, and trends. It was a preview of a talk to be given at Gartner's Summit the following week. The second part covered user experiences, with presentations by Julie Atkins, Director of IT Operations and Info Security of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and Michael Askew and Charles Pickelhaupt of Fidelity Investments' Center for Applied Technology. In both cases there were very lively give and take with the 30-40 people in the audience.
The two parts were recorded.
The second part is available today, and the second should be available next week after Gartner's Summit meeting (we don't want to steal their thunder releasing the details of the predictions Nick told us).
You will find a link to the recording on the wiki on the "Open Source and the Enterprise: Enterprise Adoption" page.
Posted by danb at 12:23 PM
September 21, 2005
Open Formats meeting with Massachusetts officials
On Friday, September 16, 2005, a meeting was held by the Mass Technology Leadership Council (an organization formed by a combination of the Massachusetts Software Council and the New England Business and Technology Association). The purpose of the meeting was to give feedback to the State of Massachusetts government on the latest draft iteration of their Enterprise Technical Reference Model, specifically the section on document formats.
In attendance were Massachusetts Secretary of Administration and Finance Eric Kriss and CIO of the Commonwealth Peter Quinn, as well as representatives from a wide variety of Council member software companies.
The meeting was recorded in its entirety by the Council and is available for download.
You will find a link to the recording on the wiki on the "Open Format Meeting September 2005" page.
Posted by danb at 04:53 PM
July 20, 2005
Good informal lunch meeting today
We had an informal lunch get together today. The consensus is that it went well. The attendees were: Dan Bricklin, Ralph Katz (consultant), Peter Moldave (lawyer, Gesmer Updegrove), Scott Peterson (corporate counsel, Hewlett-Packard), and David Rickerby (lawyer, Choate Hall & Stewart).
We discussed lots of legal and business model stuff about the GPL. What came out of it (as suggested by Scott Peterson) was a desire to help developers add the "Here's how I define the unclear areas of the GPL with regards to MY product" side-language to their product's licensing information. This could be noting the areas where there may be questions (e.g., how are the plug-ins to THIS product treated with regards to the GPL reciprocal licensing) and sample wordings for different answers to the questions. This isn't trying to "weasel out" of the GPL. Scott: "We want to do what you want us to do. Just tell me what it is!" The problem is that it is often too unclear and that is holding back adoption of Open Source software. David Rickerby volunteered to start as the point person on moving ahead with this (drickerby at choate dot com).
Posted by danb at 04:11 PM
July 19, 2005
Open discussion lunch tomorrow
Tomorrow, Wednesday, July 20th, 2005, we're having a small informal lunch at a restaurant in Newton Centre. Dan Bricklin and at least three OSS-savy lawyers will be there (one in-house counsel and two from law firms), and perhaps an entrepreneur or two. If this is worthwhile, we'll try to have other informal lunches and/or breakfasts.
Specifics: 12 noon - 1:30 pm. Sabra Restaurant, 45 Union Street, Newton Center. (On the corner of Union Street and Langley Road, very near the Riverside Green-line "T" stop, and around the corner from the parking lot at Beacon Street and Centre Streets in Newton, Massachusetts.) They have an "all you can eat" lunch buffet of middle eastern food, including many vegetarian dishes. We'll each buy our own lunch.
Posted by danb at 12:24 PM
June 30, 2005
Writeup on Groklaw
The event was written up on Groklaw. After listening to the four recordings, PJ has lots of comments and is working on getting transcripts. There are many comments posted by people reacting to Marc Fleury's keynote.
See "The MA Software Council's OSS SIG Kickoff Meeting".
Posted by danb at 10:34 AM
June 29, 2005
Slides for the keynote
Marc Fleury sent me the slides for his keynote. He sent a Powerpoint file and I also made a PDF.
www.peapodcast.com/msc-oss-sig/MSC-OSS-SIG-KickOff-4-slides.pdf (PDF, 1.8MB)
www.peapodcast.com/msc-oss-sig/MSC-OSS-SIG-KickOff-4-slides.ppt(Powerpoint, 1MB)
For a list of all the recordings, associated slides, etc., see the wiki page for this meeting.
Posted by danb at 06:47 PM
Recording of the meeting's luncheon keynote
The luncheon keynote is now available. It's 1:01:18 long and takes up about 28MB.
This is a talk (with discussion) by Marc Fleury, JBoss Group Chairman and CEO. Marc is known to be outspoken and he was. We were back in our original room, eating a bagged lunch that was provided as part of admission.
To listen to this, download it to your computer and play it. To download it, right-click on the link below, choose "Save Target As..." (or "Save Link As...", or "Download Linked File As...", depending upon your browser), and specify a location on your computer (such as in your "My Music" directory). Use your computer's music player software to listen to the file (on many machines you can just double-click on the filename), or load the file onto an MP3 player (such as the Apple iPod) for listening while you walk, exercise, etc.
If you tell other people about this file, send them to this posting and not directly to the URL of the MP3 file since it may be moved in the future. If you think you will send lots of people there to download (like more than 1,000) I'd appreciate it if you'd mirror it somewhere else, too, and link there (but let us know about it).
Recording of the kickoff meeting luncheon keynote: www.peapodcast.com/msc-oss-sig/MSC-OSS-SIG-KickOff-4.MP3
For a list of all the recordings, associated slides, etc., see the wiki page for this meeting.
Posted by danb at 04:20 PM
June 28, 2005
Nat Friedman's blog post about his talk
Nat wrote a blog post about his presentation, including filling in a part when the tape cassette was turned over and some material was missed.
See nat.org/2005/june/#OSS-Projects-Talk
Posted by danb at 05:12 PM