Last week was a blast. I’m still looking for some English overviews of the event so that my friends back here in the states can get a sense of what went on in Brasov. In the meantime you can keep your eyes on technorati and flickr. Also, a bunch of folks asked me for copies of my slides and Lucian said it could be a while before he gets them posted on the eLiberatica site so in the meantime, you can get a PDF of the slides here. Also, my photos from the trip are now up on Flickr.
About six months ago, I got an email from my friend Zak asking if I’d like to help introduce open source software to Romania. That’s exactly what we did last week. I think the presence of Zak, Monty, Brian and Kurt did a tremendous amount to simultaneously boost the credibility of open source in Eastern Europe as well as to give the Romanian open source community a sense of being on the map. The Romanians who attended the events seemed so grateful that we came to their county to speak with them and there was a palpable sense of having set something very big in motion. Lucian deserves a lot of credit for wanting to make such a difference in his home country even though he doesn’t live there any longer.
When I wasn’t talking about open government and free software, I was swapping musical recommendations with Brian who has a seriously prodigious knowledge of good music. I also especially enjoyed hearing about Romanian non-profit and technology initiatives from Bako Mihaly (who also did a write up of my talk here that he assures me is positive ;-) . I’m looking forward to seeing how much progress these folks make over the next year. Until then.
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Thanks for your effort of being there (here) :)
There is enough room for comments to fill in the blogosphere for weeks, but i would only stick to one :) - that is the willis doctrine :) - i would love to see that happening
Hi Jim,
It was a great pleasure to meet you and to have you like our guest at eLiberatica. I wish to thank you in the name of ROSI members and actually all conference attendees.
You had a very interesting speech and it seems that you really impressed the people there. I still get tons of emails from the audience reflecting the enthusiasm they had listen to you and other guests.
Definitely, we would like to keep in touch with you as far as we plan to extend the ROSI group and more than that, because everybody asked, we are going to have an eLiberatica2008!
All my best and greetings for all eLiberatica2007 attendees. Now you have many supporter in Romania too!