World Class Speakers at HOSC 2006
The Holland Open Software Conference 2006 will take place in Amsterdam on June 15-16, with many After Conference sessions on Saturday June 17th.
The location of the conference is: Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam (A-building of the University of Amsterdam). This year���s speakers include yet again some renowned experts in the fields of open source, open standards and open content.
The theme of this year's edition is:
���Open the Power House of networked Innovation - open source, open standards and open content���.
The aim of the Holland Open Software Conference is to present a broad variety of open initiatives and projects. We offer a platform were knowledge can be exchanged and were people meet in a professional and enthusiastic atmosphere. The conference likes to show the attendee that open solutions are available and that they can cope.
There will be provocative debate and unconventional contributions. The Conference will feature a broad range of best practices, scientific tracks as well as invited presentations. We do offer all invited speakers, papers, projects and our appreciated sponsors the possibility to go into depth or debate with the audience on the after conference on Saturday, June 17th. Communities will make things happen, communities will organize specific in depth events for (their) developers and coding marathons. We expect to see that more marvelous contributions and results will be created on the spot. We challenge you to investigate what can be learned from your research on and experiences with open methods and invite you to share the knowledge on the conference.
Key Questions:
- Do Open Methods enable the creative process?
- Which community model leads to the most effective innovation?
- How do Open Models lead to sustainable results?
- What are the technological enablers of the Open Model?
- How to cope with the risks and benefits of the Open Model?
- When is the closed model more effective than the Open Model?
- Is the Open Source model a viable alternative for the traditional educational system?
- What are the successful results delivered through the Open (Source) Models, and how were they realized?
Who will be there?
This year���s speakers include yet again some renowned experts in the fields of open source, open standards and open content. Here we reveal the first set of keynote speakers. Soon more keynotespeakers will follow.
Among the keynotespeakers:
Chikai Ohazama : Co-founder Google Earth and founder of the Keyhole Company;
about Google Earth
Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales: Founder of Wikipedia, the open Internet encyclopaedia:
about Wikipedia
Eben Moglen: Architect of GPL3, General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation
Tristan Nitot: Founder and Director of Mozilla Europe
James Baty: CTO & Vice President SUN Microsystems
Ron Tolido : Chief Technology Officer of Capgemini and Governing Director Open Group; about open methods, open
architecture and open standards for 'business interoperability'
Erwin Tenhumberg : Product marketing manager for OpenOffice.org within the Client Systems Group at Sun Microsystems;
Erik Josefsson: President FFII Sweden, Brussels' representative; Innovation debate on the current efforts to make EPO software patents enforceable in Europe (i.e. EPLA)
And many, many others���.
What is going to happen?
The program of HOSC 2006 will consist of keynotes and many parallel sessions that cover a wide range of topics, such as:
Trust with Jos Dirksen (AtosOrigin), Jeroen Visser (IBM), Guts Wissema (IBM) and Wouter Tebbens (the SELF-project)
Education with contributions from Michael van Wetering (Kennisnet) and Hans Nieuwenhuis (Wosi-project), Moodle and Didactor.
Licenses with contributions from Doeko Bosscher (DLA SchutGrosheide), Jan Bergstra (UvA) and Paul Klint (CWI)
Business Models with contributions from Francois Letellier (Objectweb), Sanne te Meerman (Open Source Adviesgroep) and L��on Gommans (Rotterdam CS)
Communities with contributions from Arj�� Cahn (Hippo), MMBase, Wiki/ KDE-Desktop, Google Earth and Suversion
Standardisation with Jeroen van Disseldorp-ICTU and W3C
Social Inclusion with Yuwei Lin (researcher on open source communities, http://ylin.org/)
Overview Open Source
with speakers from many continents and eastern Europe, like Diana Gorea (University 'Al. I. Cuza', Iasi, Romania)and Madan Mohan Rao (AMIC)
Open Government
with contributions from Mathieu Paapst (Unisys-RUG) and Jaap Dijkstra (RUG)
Open GIS: Space for geo prof Victor Bekkers (Erasmus University Rotterdam, project GeoGov) and Prof Arnold Bregt , scientific director innovationprogramme Geo infrastructures (RGI) and Rob Peters (Zenc, legal atlas)
Open Content
with contributions from Oscar van Dillen (Wikimedia Nederland), Jamie King (OpenBusiness.cc), Hans Westerhof (Kennisland) and Laurent Kratz (Jamendo)
Media with Lucas Vroemen (L1), NRC and Telegraaf
Components & Architecture with contributions from Arnoud Engelfriet (Philips Electronics), Nora / ICTU (pending) and WebGUI
Experiences with Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer (Hippo) KNMI and Procolix/ WebGui / United Knowledge
