Nother one, looks interesting this one. Pity I can't go.
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From: Jane Morrison <office@???>
To: members@???
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 12:37:03 +0100
Subject: [UKUUG] An Evening of Open Discourse (Open Source) 8th April
An Evening of Open Discourse
Thursday 8th April 2010, 17:30 – 20:00
BT Centre, 81 Newgate Street, London, EC1A 7AJ
We'd like to welcome you to an open self organising evening of discourse
around open source, open data and open APIs. We've lined up a world class
panel and we're looking forward to some enthusiastic discussion and lively
debate!
Agenda:
* Doors open at 5.30pm for networking over tea and coffee
* Debate and questions start at 6.15pm
* For those who'd like to continue the discussion we'll be moving to a nearby
pub at around 8pm
The Panel:
* JP Rangaswami - currently Chief Scientist at British Telecom, JP is an
outspoken advocate of open source and using emerging and disruptive
technologies to improve information sharing, education and collaboration.
http://confusedofcalcutta.com/
* Doc Searls - has been covering open source as an editor for Linux Journal
since the mid-'90s, and received the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for
"Best Communicator" in 2005. He is also a co-author of The Cluetrain
Manifesto, a business book bestseller, and since 2006 has been a fellow with
the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/
* Karim Lakhani - an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard
Business School. His research and teaching focuses on open and user
innovation. His is one of the foremost academic experts on and author of
several of the most highly cited articles on free and open source software and
the co-founder of open source research community hosted at MIT.
http://spoudaiospaizen.net/
* Blaine Cook - the principle co-author of the OAuth specification and former
lead developer at Twitter, Blaine is now Head of Cloud Messaging at British
Telecom
http://romeda.org/
* Kevin Marks - one of the co-founders of Microformats, Kevin is on the
Advisory Council of the Open Rights Group, a UK-based Digital Rights
campaigning organisation. Kevin is now Vice President of Web Services at BT
http://epeus.blogspot.com/
* Jeremy Ruston - the original creator of TiddlyWiki, Jeremy is now Head of
Open Source Innovation at British Telecom where he leads a team of open source
web developers as well as being responsible for driving the development of
BT's participation in the open source industry
http://jermolene.com/
Places are limited and you'll need to register in advance so that we can
arrange for security passes on the door.
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5648763/LONDON/London/An-evening-of-open-
discourse/BT-Centre/?ps=5
If you've any questions please feel free to contact matt@???
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www.ukuug.org
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