CPH Open Source Days: sharing is caring

Posted: March 05, 2010 by Daniel Vámosi Martinussen

The largest Open Source conference in the Nordic Countries is well underway in Copenhagen these days. Experts and all kinds of ICT stakeholders are gathered at the IT University of Copenhagen to discuss and share the latest within Open Source today.

As most of you may know Open Source is a definition, which basically dictates that anyone may alter, redefine and pass on new version of a bit of software. Perhaps this is why the Open Source Days are so popular.
Because of the nature of the subject it seems as if there is extra motivation to enable participants to interact with each other.
Assessing the massive program of speakers and presentations one will quickly discover the very practical aspect of the topics. Around 25 pct. of the presentations are occupied with specific difficulties or obstacles when developing Open Source software.
Perhaps even more surprisingly almost half of presentations relate to issues regarding implementation of Open Source software in various social and business contexts. An interesting and positive market oriented focus, which has previously been lacking within newish software tendencies.

Can everything become Open Source?
As pictures show many companies are to keen to attract and recruit bright minds to join the development of the companies various platforms. I.e. you can experience the Finnish mobile giant Nokia not just promoting their latest mobile phone N900 but rather their latest Maemo software, which is a platform providing new customizing options to your personal Nokia. However, as other manufacturers have already proven, Nokia needs developers to attract customers through innovative applications. So if you are a software developer and up for the challenge there is already a start-kit ready…

Obviously the conference is not all about mobile phones but as an interesting counterpart to gigantic Nokia a much smaller but definitely not less interesting stand can found on the conference. The product called Openmoko Neo Freerunner is some as rare as a Open Source developed mobile phone. Naturally this means that the device is currently running Linux but with no restrictions. The mobile phone is a neat little thing with touch screen and all other specifications found in usually much more expensive models.
Apart from a long list of software developers, security solutions, hardware manufacturers and various ICT consultants present and located in esthetic surroundings on the ITU premises the conference seems as an ideal opportunity to strengthen anyones professional ICT network and we can only imagine that the success will continue to grow for the interesting Open Source Days.

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