June 19, 2003
Cool-looking conference next week: Open Source - Open Standards. The Business, Legal, and Technical Challenges Ahead.
This one-and-a-half day standards conference for senior executives, comprising four panels, will feature an introduction of the issues and follow-up with an interactive discussion between the speakers and the audience. The aim is to capture and publish the issues that are discussed in order to raise the industry awareness of the benefits of Open Source.
It was suggested today that I go to this, and I probably should. I mean, hell, it's in town! If I can still register, I just might. Thing is, I'm not sure that I want to spend two days at an event geared toward "senior business executives." After a bizarre night several years ago in which I found myself at a cocktail party with CEOs of huge international corporations, followed by a late-night dinner with lawyers planning a trip to a week-long opera festival (I'll save that story for another day), I don't know that I'm ready for another schmooze-fest quite yet.
Then again, could be fun. At the very least, I have requested the proceedings, which may be all that I care about. We'll see.
