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Josette Garcia writes:
eLiberatica, organized by Lucian Savluc and Agora, is over.
As usual I met some great people: . Georg Greve, President - Free Software Foundation, Europe - FSFE works to create general understanding and support for software freedom in politics, law and society-at-large.
. Danese Cooper told a few "True Stories from Open Source". In the taxi to the airport she also told me of the importance of "R"- more on this later, probably toward the end of the year.
. Teo Constantin Teodorescu gave a very funny and deep talk "National Unique Queue Register can fight against Corruption".
. Monty Michael Widenius - "Open Source licensing and software quality"
and David Axmark - "Clouds on the Horizon? Get Ready for Drizzle", the two men behind MySQL.
Other exhibitors included:
. Fedora
. Romanian Free Software
. Mozilla
. RadGs Software
. Byblos
What did I learn?
. From a very student-oriented conference, this year the business people made over 50% of the number of delegates, even though the conference was held at the Universitatea Politehnica. Is Open Source at long last finding notoriety/credit among the business community?
. Once Again, ladies were well represented at this conference - approx 20-25%. It seems that education is different here and that girls are not automatically pushed to humanities studies and boys to science. One day we might see this happen in Western Europe.
. Unfortunately, I feel that the credit crunch hit Romania pretty badly and that money is very tight and jobs not secure. It is always a pity that a nation which has been fighting to recover from a very bad political and economical past, has to continue struggling due to events occurring outside its boundaries.
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