OpenSource World: we got r0ml

It's official: we have Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz as a
keynoter at OpenSource World, formerly LinuxWorld.


http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId...

Finally, we get to hear about the missing angle
for open source in IT departments.  When you drag
peer production code and ideas into the Corporate IT
Department, can you actually MAKE NEW STUFF with it,
or is open source just a snoozy cheaper/more reliable
way to do the same old IT projects you were going to
do anyway?

r0ml's "Deli" concept is a major step toward making
the IT department work like a business-and finally
start to pull its weight again in a world where any
user can get better-than-Enterprise IT, cheaper and
faster, from 37 Signals or somebody like that.

I heard r0ml do the "Deli" talk at OSBC, and it got
a lot of great comments and questions.  From a user:
"When we need something that works we try to avoid
the IT department finding out about it."  From an
IT manager: "If we don't provide services like this
[the deli] they're going to work around it."

Hey, between the two community day events on the
11th, "Deli" as a keynote, and the user talks in
the main conference, I'm going to have to say that
the users have successfuly taken over this event.
See you there.

-- 
Don Marti                                 +1 510-332-1587 mobile
http://zgp.org/~dmarti/
dmarti@zgp.org
See you at OpenSource World: August 11-13, 2009 in San Francisco