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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.
The four panel discussions will examine the issues surrounding Open Source from various perspectives:
• Making the business case for Open Source
• The business drivers for Open Source
• What is the future of Open Source?
• Understand licensing and distribution
• Managing intellectual property rights
• Are there any special considerations for intellectual property rights?
• Is it robust, scaleable, portable, interoperable?
• Is it feasible for SME's (small, medium enterprises) to use Open Source?
• What is coming down the road?
• The ethics and code of conduct for Open Source developers
• The social ramifications of an Open Source work force
• What impact will Open Source software have on the IT divide?
Bruce Perens,
Perens, LLC
Dr. John Collins, Department
of Computer Science, University of Minnesota
John Terpstra, Samba
Larry Rosen, Partner, Rosenlaw.com
Henry W. (Hank) Jones III,
Law Office of Henry W. Jones -and- Intersect Technology Consulting
Tony Stanco, Founding
Director, The Center of Open Source & Government
Stormy Peters,
Open Source Program Manager, Hewlett-Packard
Eduardo Gutentag,
Senior Staff Engineer,
XML Standardization, Sun Microsystems
Elmer Baldwin, President & CEO, Manchester Companies, Inc.
Loren
Sinning,
Cargill, Inc.
Andrew Aitken, Olliance
Group
Andras Szakal, Chief Architect,
Federal Software Group, IBM
Dr. Ken Goodpaster, Professor
and Koch Endowed Chair of Business Ethics, College of Business, University
of St. Thomas
Dr. Peter Vaill, Distinguished
Professor, College of Business, University of St. Thomas
John Schmidt, Director,
Middleware Center of Excellence, Best Buy
Malcolm Reid, Manager,
Information Architecture Neurophysiological Products, Medtronic
Amy A. Marasco,
Vice President and General Counsel,
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
Carolyn A. Kahn, Senior
Economics and Business Analyst, Center for Acquisition and Systems
Analysis (CASA), The MITRE Corporation
