Sun 24 Sep 2006
I actually made it to Dublin for aKademy after my ticket debacle. I even managed to finish my talk on the plane ride over and even more remarkable, deliver it to a packed room of KDE developers and enthusiasts. There have been a number of positive blogs over at planetkde.org so I think it went well. Money well spent if you ask me. Being able to connect and build bridges with the KDE community is priceless. Competition and cooperation are NOT mutually exclusive.
I plan on giving an abbreviated form of my talk at the Boston Summit in a few weeks since it does not really have a lecture format. The Boston Summit is more of a collection of BOF sessions. The good thing about this is after my brief presentation there will be a large and healthy discussion that should follow.
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September 25th, 2006 at 6:40 am
Competition and cooperation are NOT mutually exclusive!
Nevertheless, I think the proper word for the combined thingie is “coopetition”, so people who do that would be “coopetitors” rather than “cooprators” which has more of a purely-cooperating touch and hardly signals competition.
Nevertheless, it’s great you made it to Dublin! (I’m looking forward to you using the hacking sessions for some hacking on KDE code
September 25th, 2006 at 10:47 am
What was that again, better repeat it again one more time in case anyone forgets:
Competition and cooperation are NOT mutually exclusive!
If nothing else I think people will remember that sentence from your talk. That and inline-skating.