Getting Ready for OSBC

March 18th, 2008 John Mark

I was quite startled to learn yesterday that next week is OSBC (the Open Source Business Conference). As in, 7 days from now. We’ve got a few things going on at this year’s edition.

Javier will appear in the panel I’ll Show You My Forge If You Show Me Yours at 10:30am on Wednesday, March 26. The topic of discussion will be how you engage users and developers and sell them on the forge concept, and there will be a whole lot of expertise on hand to discuss it. Besides Javier, there’s also Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource, Dave Rosenberg, CEO of MuleSource, and Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier, OpenSUSE’s Community Director. Moderating is Eric Knorr, Editor-in-chief of InfoWorld. Now *that’s* a high-powered panel.

As for me, I’m apparently the only person crazy enough to go up against Mark Shuttleworth, John Roberts and Marten Mickos in the 10:30am timeslot on Tuesday. I am moderating the panel The Community Imperative: Building and Leveraging Community into IT at 10:30am on Tuesday, March 25. I’m blessed with a very intriguing panel featuring Russ Danner from the Christian Science Publishing Society, Gautam Guliani from Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions, Paolo Juvara from OpenBravo, and Gianugo Rabellino from Sourcesense. Look for some interesting back and forth, as these guys all have different perspectives on community building.

I’m really looking forward to this, as I’ve always been a fan of OSBC. If you’re going to OSBC and have already seen Mickos, Roberts and Shuttleworth speak multiple times, then this is the panel for you!

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