The GNOME Conference 2006 Booklet - GNOME Project Listing
The GNOME Conference 2006 Booklet - GNOME Project Listing
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>GNOME</strong> <strong>Conference</strong><br />
GUADEC Core<br />
Keynote:<br />
Free Software at Sun Microsystems<br />
With companies like Sun, Novell, and IBM switching to open<br />
source, it's clearly about more than just "free stuff". Hear<br />
about "social production", how software gets written, where<br />
the money comes from, and why this is just the first wave of<br />
a series of revolutions that will change society profoundly<br />
and permanently.<br />
Free and Open Source software is the expression of a<br />
phenomenon that Yochai Benkler calls "Social Production". This keynote considers the<br />
models Sun Microsystems uses to understand F/OSS and explores their implications for<br />
the future.<br />
Simon Phipps<br />
Simon Phipps is the Chief Open Source Officer for Sun Microsystems, with<br />
global responsibility for Sun's Free/Open Source software strategy including<br />
OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris, and more. He has a deep interest in the nature<br />
and impact of networks and the social change they produce. Prior to his<br />
current role, he helped create blogs.sun.com, helped get Sun's President<br />
blogging, and worked at IBM Hursley where he helped introduce Java and<br />
XML He has worked on video conferencing, X.25, run a Windows software<br />
business, and programmed everything from PDAs to mainframes.<br />
GUADEC Core Closure<br />
Luis Villa Villa<br />
Wed 28 17:00<br />
1. Carpa<br />
Keynote<br />
Luis just wrapped up a year as the 'geek in<br />
residence' at the Berkman Center for Internet<br />
and Society, working on a variety of software<br />
Wed 28 18:00<br />
projects, including StopBadware.org, the<br />
Digital Music Exchange, and the H2O<br />
1. Carpa<br />
educational tools project. Prior to that, he<br />
was at Ximian and Novell, working on Linuxbased<br />
desktop projects with global teams of<br />
Closure<br />
hackers. His projects included the Evolution PIM, the <strong>GNOME</strong> 2.0 release (in<br />
collaboration with Sun), and the Ximian and Novell Linux Desktops.<br />
In the fall, Luis will start work on a law degree at Columbia Law School in New<br />
York.<br />
Luis's undergraduate education was at Duke University, where he majored in political science and<br />
computer science (neither of which are a science, of course.) While at Duke, Luis attended over one<br />
hundred basketball games while wearing a devil mask, and co-authored Extreme Mindstorms: An<br />
Advanced Guide To Lego Mindstorms.<br />
June 24–30, <strong>2006</strong> • Vilanova (Catalonia – Spain) 53
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