Jeff and I are now just over halfway through our national “Meet the Open Source Industry” roadshow.
It has been an excellent turn out in most cities, with great numbers in Brisbane, Darwin and Adelaide. Canberra wasn’t as well attended as we accidentally planned the event the morning after the long weekend, and Sydney was a little low on numbers due to over-busy Sydney people being slackers. 🙂
Tomorrow is the Perth event, and then next week is Melbourne and Hobart, all of which are looking great. Soon, we’ll publish slides from the roadshow including the Open Source companies we introduced all around the country!
Today is the Open Source Western Australia Symposium, a collaboration between the Department of Industry and Resources and the Western Australian Supercomputer Program. I helped them with some of their speakers and WASP have also created a good relationship with the Perth Linux User Group, which is cool. WASP even ran the Perth Software Freedom Day event.
Today they are also announcing the first major research project into the use of FOSS in the Western Australian Government and market, based on the national AGIMO survey into the use of FOSS in Federal Government earlier this year. Waugh Partners is running the survey and assisting with the analysis, which we are pretty excited about.
So the short of it is there is a lot happening, and we need to blog more regularly (hint, hint Jeff) 🙂
Good presentation in Adelaide (despite the alarm tests and Jeff’s laptop running out of juice!) – look forward to seeing the slides.
BTW – is Jeff deliberately trying to look like Dr McDreamy?
What you are doing is really important, so keep up the good work!
It was nice to see so many people at the Adelaide event.