At one of the events that the sparkling Sylvia Paull organized I met Pieter Hartsook he is working in product marketing for the Open Source Application Foundation (OSAF) the non profit founded by Mitch Kapor with the goal to develop a modern Personal Information Manager code named Chandler.
We talked about the Future Salon and he found it interesting enough to spontaneously offer to open the OSAF doors for one of our events. For this months Future Salon on the 20th of February 7pm I took him up on his offer. I am sure all the northern faithfuls who for months and months have taken the hour+ trip to the Future Salon will be really happy about this. I am curious how the composition of the audience will change now that we are holding it in "the city".
Open Source Applications Foundation
543 Howard St. 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105 map
phone: +1 415 946-3040
Therefore if you ever wondered, whether people that work on open source projects are happier coders, come early and you may get a glance and can ask one or two of them.
Theme:WorldChanging.com. Another world is here. Goals and Outlook.
Worldchanging.com is a four month old group Weblog edited by the two presenters Alex Steffen and Jamais Cascio. The underlying premise is, that the solutions for our world problems are available, just not yet distributed correctly. A couple of times Jamais Cascio took part in the Future Salons and I always liked his insides and perspectives and am really looking forward to what both of them have to say.
More details soon.
Very cold and empty reception
There was a meeting on the first floor but it has
a controlled access door and the folks said that was
not future salon.
Went to the place and there was a female security
guard who escorted me to the fifth floor.
There where nobody at any of the rooms there.
I had asked if I could stay for another half
hour but the securty guard insisted that I leave
to return back to the street level
Was told that Future Salon has a diffrent format
from " Ask A Scientist ".
The trouble with Ask a Scientist is that the audience has
grown to such a massive size that one hardly gets time
to ask quetions or to confute the speaker's theories.
The talk " Demysifiying String Theory " was rather long
winded and the audience had little time to confront the
speaker.
So far I see your organization as strictly mid peninsula based
and do not have transit down to your meetings and the Caltrans
actualy quits running trains after a certain hour at night.
So I guess that I will have to forgo having a link to
this on my browser.
Good luck with your endeaviours.
Mike Kan
Posted by: Michael Kan | February 22, 2007 at 10:22