Open Source Showcase

At OpenAdvantage, we love hearing about local companies successfully using open source software. We also want these successes to be heard about more widely, so that as many people as possible can benefit from being involved with open source.

This half-day mini-conference will give local businesses using open source a chance to describe their experiences with it and show off their wares. The event will be structured as a series of short 10 minute talks by local businesses, describing their experiences with open source.

Schedule

• Richard Johnson, PixelPlanet Ltd.: Plone for corporate websites
• Ian Moore, Friends of the Earth (Birmingham): Edubuntu and thin clients
• Jake Stride, Senokian: Enterprise Groupware System
• Claire Wozencroft, C2B2: iPoint portal
• William Giddings: open source applications with Tcl/Tk
• Richard Zybert, Zybert Computing: Z1 Gem Server
• Reuben Pearse, Presence Systems Ltd.: our journey with open source
  
• John W. Beeston: Plone
• Peter King, SiteDesign: deploying Ubuntu Linux inside a business
• James Bulman, Blue Voice: open source VOIP
• Kat Goodwin, PalePurple: using open source to build flexible bespoke applications
• Barbie, Birmingham Perl Mongers: the Labyrinth project - using Perl for web development
• Richard Nicholas, Browne Jacobson LLP: open source and software contracts
  

Who should attend

IT business owners, programmers, developers, web designers, IT consultants, IT managers and management consultants from businesses or other organisations within the West Midlands region.

Benefits of attending

This is a good opportunity for businesses to network, meet other like-minded IT folk, and get an idea of what's really going on with open source in the region.

For more information contact one of the team on 0121 634 1620 or events@openadvantage.org.