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I am apparently missing FOSSCamp because of my high workload, but I offer these notes from the excellent MIT Enterprise Forum Event on Open Source from last year, excerpted from my post MITEFC Open Source Conference Notes
Open Source licenses gemerally fall into in three buckets (Props to Simon Philips for his clear description):

“A”: market forming models allow […]

FOSSCamp looks pretty interesting for my fellow Boston-based (or as I am, Cambridge-based) entrepreneurial friends. I will try to be there, and if scheduling works out I’m going to try and organize a discussion about business models for companies that make and/or use open source software. 
Cambridge, Central Square, Hilton@MIT. Saturday starting at 10am, Sunday too.

Bar Camp Mancester is happening in Manchester, NH (an hour’s drive north of Boston) a week from Saturday, July 28. Am sure it will be a great time, though with my workload, unlikely I will be able to make it. Congrats to Ian and the crew for making this event happen again. Here’s their description:
BarCampManchester is an un-conference […]

At BarCampBoston2 I attended a neat session on advertising revenue. Out of a number of interesting data points, I heard him make a great suggestion for aspiring entrepreneurs who want to monetize through advertising: build your own ads.
Here’s the plan: join an affiliate program (e.g. Amazon Associates plus API) and make your own ads that point […]

Shimon Rura, Mike Walsh, Susan “Sooz” Kaup, Jeff Potter and a host of others made this past weekend’s BarCamp a great success. Smart durations (45 minutes for sessions, 15 minutes for walkabout), great hallway conversations, and I had the pleasure of running a session called “Drop Your Pants” (subtitled “Not Literally). At least 150 attendees […]

Barcamp Boston is back. And still not in Boston, but closer, at the Stata Center at MIT in Cambridge. Thinking we should have some green themes going on given the date, and the very Irish town in which we live/work.
Sign up, tell your friends, and let me know in comments what kind of presentation I should give. […]

I got to see John Resig’s first presentation at Barcamp Manchester. It was very good both in style and in the very meaty substance. Really a bright light at the (un)conference. Jquery seems cool too, though that sentiment is expressed in action by far brighter lights.
He’s an organizer of the superhappydevhouse. I’m actually looking forward […]

BarCampManchester was great. Ian Muir is a northern Shimon Rura. (The latter held two great sessions, by the by.) It had the feel of BahCamp day two - smaller group, odd assortment of topics. The participation by locals changed the age dynamic (I didn’t feel like a dinosaur) and the focus. A mixed bag, but that is […]

Comment on this post if you want a lift to BarCamp Manchester. I will be leaving at 9am, meetup at my office at 180 Franklin St in Central Sq, Cambridge. I can carry a max of 4 people.

BarCampManchester is a week from today, November 18th. Just an hour’s drive north of Boston, and one day. I encourage my readers (both of you!) to sign up on their wiki so they can get a sense of headcount. Barhcamp Boston was a blast, and a great educational experience. Looking forward to this smaller un-conference!