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Speaking at OSS Forum Hobart, Tasmania

I’ll be speaking at the Open Source Software Forum on April 6th in Hobart, Tasmania. Speaking, I say? They offered me the keynote straight after the minister’s intro. Grand!
I’ve been asked to talk about “bridging the divide between bright developers and the real world”, basically a mix of my “How to Eat an Elephant” and “The MySQL Business Model” talks.

There’s a serious crowd of OSS and other software vendors present, I’ve seen names from Red Hat, IBM, and Microsoft. The website explains

The forum will be used to promote awareness and understanding of OSS and to examine the risks and benefits associated with the adoption of the software. The forum will also provide an opportunity to showcase OSS solutions using case studies and/or pilot programs discovered via market research. The forum will involve stakeholders from within government, the community, local business and the Tasmanian ICT industry.

Haven’t been to Tasmania yet, interesting. There’s TasLUG. And hmm, there’s no MySQL User Group there yet either… work to do!

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