This week I’ll be in Grand Rapids, Michigan to present at the Western Michigan Novell Users Group’s annual shin-dig in Grand Rapids.
The conference organizer, Mary Matthews says that I’ll be showing off some Linux desktop stuff.
It’s official. I have been assigned to plan the general sessions for BrainShare 2007.
Along with my colleague Clint Carroll, it’s my job to make the general sessions at BrainShare blow the doors off of any BrainShare keynote you have seen before. Clint and I are diving into the task with zeal.
Having already seen the stage comps from the production company, we already have a lot of cool ideas for what we want to put on stage.
Before I get started on sharing some of our ideas, I want to hear from some BrainShare alumni about what you want more of and less of out of the BrainShare general sessions. So please, lecture and confabulate, advise and rant, invent and inspire, let loose, open up, and tell me what you think Novell needs to do this year in the general sessions. In other words, please comment.
I have to admit, I was more than a little star-struck when I finally got to meet Google’s Chris DiBona in person.
(If your feed does not include the picture, please see the original on my blog.)
Erin and I managed to get an exclusive audio interview with the executive director of the newly-announced combination of the Free Standards Group and Open Source Development Labs, now called “The Linux Foundation.”
The interview will be online this morning on Novell Open Audio.
Erin and I are hanging out this week at an event called “The Amazing Meeting,” the annual conference of the James Randi Educational Foundation, held in Las Vegas. The conference has nothing to do with our work at Novell–both Erin and I are extremely interested in the scientific world view, and this is our third year attending the conference. Headliners this year are South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
If any NOA listeners happen to be attending the event, or if you are in the Las Vegas area, please contact us to tell us hello. We’ll be seeking out some kind of Mediterranean or Middle-eastern food this evening, too.
We’re considering doing a couple “Live” shows for Novell Open Audio at Novell BrainShare 2007.
Two questions for our listeners: Should we? And if so, who do you want us to interview?
I’ll post a little more about some of my BrainShare plans coming up soon. (Apologies about the blog silence, BTW. My life beyond Novell has been a bit tumultuous lately.) If you’re interested in registering for BrainShare, click here.
