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Attendees' Presentations & Discussion Documents

A specially invited group came together to consider the issues associated with implementing Open Source in business.  The aim was to have a small group so that discussion - rather than presentations to a passive audience - could drive out the concerns and issues. A group of 65 senior business people and Open Source experts looked at Open Source through four panels.

The documents here are the presentations and position papers that were used as starters for the discussions, along with a short form and the verbatim version of the proceedings:-

• Opening Keynote - Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
• Keynote Address- Walter Stahlecker, HP GmbH
• Business Panel - moderator Graham Bird
• Stormy Peters - Hewlett Packard
• Andrew Aitkin - Olliance Group
• Lauren Sinning - Cargill, Inc
• Carolyn Kahn - Mitre
• Social & Ethical - moderator Dr Bill Estrem
• Dr Peter Vail - University of St. Thomas [Position]
• Dr Ken Goodpaster -University of St. Thomas
• Malcolm Reid - Medtronics
• Tony Stanco - George Washington University
• Legal - moderator Steve Nunn
  • Tony Stanco - George Washington University
  • Larry Rosen - Rosenlaw LLC
  • Hank Jones - Intersect Technology Consulting [Position]
  • Amy Marasco - ANSI
• Technical - moderator Terry Blevins
  • Bruce Perens - Perens LLC
  • Dr John Collins - University of St. Thomas [Position]
  • John H Terpstra - The Samba Team
  • John Schmidt - Best Buy [Position]
  • Eduardo Gutentag - Sun Microsystems
  • Andras Szakal - IBM
• Project Avalanche - lunchtime presentation - Elmer Baldwin, Manchester Companies, Inc.
• Open Standards - Open Source - Proceedings
• Open Standards - Open Source - Synopsis