{"id":1304,"date":"2007-02-02T00:35:55","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T22:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/talks-2\/"},"modified":"2007-02-02T00:35:55","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T22:35:55","slug":"talks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/talks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m under way right now returning from Eindhoven where I gave a talk with the<br \/>\n\t\ttitle <a\n\t\thref=\"http:\/\/vizzzion.org\/downloads\/businessmodels-with-KDE.pdf\">&#8220;Business<br \/>\n\t\tModels with KDE&#8221;<\/a>. The audience was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osbc.nl\">business<br \/>\n\t\tclub<\/a> of Free Software-related IT firms. System integrators, web application<br \/>\n\t\tshops, embedded system developers among them.<br \/>\n\t\tIn the talk I tried to present KDE in a business-compatible way, showing what<br \/>\n\t\tKDE is, telling about the organisation of our community, <a\n\t\thref=\"http:\/\/ev.kde.org\/supporting-members.php\">ways to support it<\/a> and of<br \/>\n\t\tcourse licensing. I&#8217;ve also taken a couple of different business models that are<br \/>\n\t\tviable in the Free Software world and showed how those can be combined with<br \/>\n\t\tKDE.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n\t\tThe feedback was pretty positive, some people were a bit surprised to see<br \/>\n\t\tsomeone coming directly from the Free Software community, visiting them and<br \/>\n\t\ttelling them how to make money, and that there are Free Software projects around<br \/>\n\t\tthat think about organisational issues and how to make it easier for companies<br \/>\n\t\tto contribute.<br \/>\n\t\tOne of the more interesting questions I&#8217;ve got was &#8220;How do you as a desktop<br \/>\n\t\tperson see webservices becoming more and more important?&#8221; Well, obviously we<br \/>\n\t\thave the technology to exploit webservices &#8212; Konqueror \/ KHTML. But we can of<br \/>\n\t\tcourse offer more. Integration of webservices in the desktop seems to be a big<br \/>\n\t\tpoint, and things such as Get Hot New Stuff, information of Wikipedia in<br \/>\n\t\tapplications, KHTML as a desktop component for easy reuse can be quite a big<br \/>\n\t\tpoint. But also, of course locking down the desktop by means of Kiosk &#8212; if you<br \/>\n\t\thave webservices, you can switch off a lot of other stuff.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n\t\tYesterday was quite a bit different. I was invited by a group of Computer<br \/>\n\t\tScience teachers with the CodeYard hat on, introducing them to concepts of Free<br \/>\n\t\tSoftware development, collaboration tools and peer-to-peer communication<br \/>\n\t\tmodels.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n\t\tSaturday, we&#8217;ll have the <a\n\t\thref=\"http:\/\/www.codeyard.net\/scholier\/commuday.php\">CodeYard Community Day<\/a><br \/>\n\t\tAdriaan already blogged about.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n\t\tBut tomorrow, I&#8217;ll get to know my nephew. I&#8217;m uncle for a week and a half now!<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m under way right now returning from Eindhoven where I gave a talk with the title &#8220;Business Models with KDE&#8221;. The audience was business club of Free Software-related IT firms. System integrators, web application shops, embedded system developers among them. In the talk I tried to present KDE in a business-compatible way, showing what KDE&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/talks-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Talks.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}