“Open Source Bridge was a fantastic conference and I would say the premier grass roots Open Source Conference in America. IT is what you expect from a Grass Roots conference, it is full of amazing community leaders. The conference is run in a very unconf type of fashion with the first three days scheduled talks and then a day of unconf. There where breakout rooms provided where people could just unwind and relax this also…
So I made it down to Ravensbourne for MozFest Opening night, it was set-up like a mini maker faire across two floors. There was tables laid out with different hacks, displays and information about the companies/people/technologies that will be showcased and played with during the festival. Mozilla also provided nibbles and drinks for the evening which was a great touch after a long train ride from Glasgow. If you have never been to a Moz…
I must start by saying a big thank you o Linux Foundation who gave me a free ticket after I won a competition over twitter. I was offered my choice of tickets and I chose Europe as I could see good friends in Scotland, visit Edinburgh where I have lived before and it lined up with MozFest which I was wanting to go to. Linux Con Europe Edinburgh 21 -23 I ended up taking a student…
Saturday March 16th What can I say awesome day, started with a lovely welcome to the “Microsoft Nerd Center” all I can say on that is wow what a great choice for a venue. The breakfast snacks were amazing and we were off to start a day of jam packed Joomla fun. Paul the new head of Open Source Matters started the day with the welcome speech giving us an update on what OSM will…
9th March So today Barry Teoh and myself went to a speech about Open Web Standards with Tim Berners Lee, IEEE and Adobe on what they are doing to push open web forward…. I had an interesting discussion with Adobe about there stance on Open Web which I did not think was too aligned with what Tim and IEEE are doing. The meeting was good though and it was interesting as it was a small…
March 8 – 17 So after the last couple of years of going oh next year… next year ill make it… I decided to make sure that 2013 was my first SXSW, and wow what a ride… Thanks to Barry Teoh who allowed me to stay with him at his accommodation which sure did take a-load off as most of the accommodation around town sells out before the tickets do. So my advice if your planning on going which you should do atleast…