[OSCOM] OSCOM Benefit : RockyRaccoons.com

Greetings from Chapel Hill, NC,

I'll be sure to add OSCOM to the list of entities we're benefitting at our
upcoming event.

http://rockyraccoons.com

We already have Gallery, Oscommerce, and Joomla on the draft of the poster.

OSCOM's a great organisation, and I have faith it will be around for some
time to come.  This is just the dawn of Open Source CMS.  I presented
Authena.org at the Harvard conference and had a great time--great
conference.  22surf.org was part of the Zurich conference, but
unfortunately I couldn't make it out there as I was teaching.

Now I'm teaching Artistic Entrepreneurship & Technology 101 at UNC, and
half the class is using Open Source CMS for their projects.

http://artsentrepreneurship.com

I'll be looking forward to another OSCOM event!

Perhaps we oculd have it in the Research Triangle, in Red Hat's back yard!

Best,

Dr. E:)




On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote:

> Daniel Hinderink wrote:
>
> > I have been thinking about contributing to OSCOM for a long time.
> > At the same time, I don't think reviving it can be successful with only
> > improving online communication. I believe fundamentally a sense of direction
> > and mission is missing (At least from my pov they are to widely defined
> > right now) and I would imagine that starting with meetings makes much more
> > sense.
>
> oscom got started by drinking beers together, so your suggestion has a
> lot of merit. at the same time, we are a pretty international bunch, and
> the fact that oscom was started mostly by swiss people is a mere
> historical coincidence.
>
> > So here is my proposal:
> > - how about a re-constitution meeting (in Zurich, or Basel?) as an open
> > workshop trying to define a common goal and some roadmap for (y)our
> > activities for the next 1-2 years. We could collect input on this and all
> > the questions of about the by-laws (which I think need improvement)
> > beforehand from everybody on this list.
> >
> > I have done this before and I am willing to prepare and moderate this, if
> > somebody in Zurich helps with finding a location.
>
> while i don't mind a zurich meeting, it will exclude a lot of the
> audience. i am not in zurich, for instance. it might make more sense,
> therefore, to make this an online meeting.
>
> > What I would really like to do is to (help) organise another conference,
> > this time making it more accessible and also cheaper for people to attend.
> >
> > I enjoyed being in Zurich at OSCOM very much and heard some good speeches.
> > What I have been missing is a bigger crowd and more interaction between the
> > projects, which IMHO is due to the steep rates for attendance and not enough
> > press work.
>
> oscom4 was a failure. not enough volunteer time invested resulted in
> exactly what you are saying.
>
> > Anyway, you might have plans already, which I could hook up with, or you
> > could let me propose a time and place, complete with a calculation on the
> > cost.
>
> actually, i don't have plans for another conference. i think the
> traditional oscom conferences have run their course, and some fresh
> ideas are needed. i am personally not interested to organize another
> oscom conference at this time, but that should not stop anyone :)
>
> > I don't have time right now to tell you more about me and my background, but
> > I have experience in organising conferences and building organisations for
> > some years now (I am 36).
> >
> > Also, if you need help with administration, I guess I know quite a bit about
> > that too.
>
> to deal with local events, we started oscom chapters. there is a german
> one, for instance: http://de.oscom.org/
>
> so it might make sense to have your proposed meeting within the
> german-speaking oscom community, and then use that energy to revamp all
> of oscom.
>
> > Let me know if there is anything that should keep me from getting started to
> > make proposals for those two meetings.
>
> except for the geographical constraints, none.
>
> -gregor
>
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