Re: [OSCOM] Oscom @ Gilbane

Hi Seth

my comments and suggestions were
general - I just found the right 'excuse' to pop them out

we should not forget the strategic implications of our spontaneus acts

I think it's great that you and others are moving this initiative
forward, provided we also attempt to get
some cohesion and unity of purpose among the community at large

Once you have a plan all laid out, it would be good if you could get
feedback and approval to brand any proposed effort  under our common
name...

look forward to great work getting done,

PDM

On 9/15/06, Seth Gottlieb <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > I would be happy to see Oscom associated with Gilbane,
> > provided - as someone has spotted - that its independence
> > from commercial interests is guaranteed and maintained
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> > All Oscom activities shoul be open, by invitation, to all
> > Oscom members As Michi said, lets look at the papers, lets
> > make the papers a collective Oscom effort
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> > Is ther an Oscom panel going on?  All Oscom members should be
> > invited to participate Ultimately - we are all experts in
> > some area or other - and we should not be pushing one
> > professional or commercial interest over another.
> > Otherwise this is not going to take off the way we all hope it will
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> > If an activity is not open invitation to all Oscom members,
> > it should not be branded under Oscom -
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> If this is in regards to Renaud's email about the booth, the relationship
> and involved is a lot less formal than you are describing.  A few open
> source CMS developers came up with the idea for a booth to promote the
> concept of open source within the exhibitors hall.  We invited others that
> we knew to help staff the booth.  OSCOM was a convenient heading to put the
> booth under because we have representatives from Plone, Lenya, and Drupal
> (We might get someone from Joomla as well.  If there is anyone else out
> there in the Boston area who wants to help staff the booth, let me know).
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> As for a panel.  There is no OSCOM panel or track.  However, I have
> organized and will moderate an interactive panel of open source consultants
> and customers telling their experience about using open source software to
> solve content management problems.