April 22-25, 2008
South Park, San Fransisco
Web2Open is the “unconference,” where anyone with a Web 2.0 Expo badge can share knowledge and join in open discussions with the community at large in three different ways:
Simply schedule your topic, show up, and lead the discussion. These can be scheduled onsite.
- Pre-Scheduled Roundtables: Join an open conversation with a panel of community members scheduled in advance.
- BoFs (Birds of a Feather sessions): Informal group sessions focused on a particular topic that’s been suggested by the attendees. The difference between the BoFs and the Open sessions is that the BoFs gatherings are more loose—some are after-hours—and often don’t have a discussion leader. BoFs may be scheduled in advance or onsite.
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If you want to keep abreast of developments in Australia, wander on over to http://www.olpc.org.au and for more infomation about the project itself, there is http://www.laptop.org and http://wiki.laptop.org
The OLPC runs a modified Fedora, with a Python based window manager called Sugar. It has a 1 gig Flash drive, a built in camera and splash proof keyboard, built in speaker too! Built in wifi as well. And it’s green. And white. It looks very iPoddy, actually.
It uses a LiFe battery, giving it 4 1/2 hours life, without any power management. It doesn’t last as long reading a book as say, the eMate, but it’s not bad as laptops go!
Fellas mightn’t be as adapted to the keyboard, but slender handed ladies may well have the advantage. 🙂
* The One Laptop Per Child initiative, a charity which is attempting to create and distribute educational laptops to disadvantaged children, is on its way to Australia. OLPC Australia was unveiled at the Linux.conf.au open source conference in Melbourne in February, 2008.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – Be a part of Australia’s Mobile Industry future
Business Development – Professional Development – Industry Development
· Want in-depth knowledge about the mobile content and applications industry?
· Want to work directly with people engaged at the cutting-edge of this huge growth sector?
· Want to develop your idea for content or applications?
· Want your staff to be across opportunities in the mobile space?
The mobile content and applications industry is one of the fastest growing economic sectors globally and, in Australia alone, is set to top $1B by 2009. Australia is very well positioned to increase its international market share and reputation as a hothouse of mobile technological innovation and creativity.
The mega (Mobile Enterprise Growth Alliance) program addresses this timely opportunity through a hands-on, industry-led program that teams up creative, IT and business people for professional and business development. Ideas for content and applications are groomed through a series of intensive workshops and dedicated mentoring before being pitched to industry experts and investors.
mega is being held between March and June 2008 in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. A very limited number of positions are available in each state, applications close soon.
See mega.org.au for details or email Justin Brow on justin@mega.org.au.
1 Feb – 1 May 2008, Australia Council for the Arts
Drawing stories, playing with poems aims to highlight the changing parameters of literary activity in Australian literature. The Literature Board at the Australia Council particularly encourages innovative, cross-artform collaborations and emerging forms of practice. It supports projects that are visually compelling, aesthetically engaging and conceptually sound.
The content of this exhibition demonstrates the strength and vitality of two successful Literature Board grant recipients, multi-award winning writer/illustrator Shaun Tan (VIC) and the creative poetry ensemble, The Red Room Company, headed by Johanna Featherstone (SYD).
It also features an interactive Story of the Future display, inlcuding projects and artists supported through the initiative.
Drop by and check out the display at the Australia Council, Ground Floor, 372 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills, Sydney between 9am – 5pm, Monday to Friday.
