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No headersDuring the
Open Toronto section of the agenda (basically a
speedgeek) everyone got to do a 5 min presentation that answered the question 'how
is your project open?'.
- Jane's
Walk: Toronto as user generated content. Jane's Walk offers 60
neighbourhood tours led by everyday Torontonians, all self-organized.
It's like 60 living blogs with sneakers. (Jane Farrow)
- Intro to Ubuntu. Find out how simple and fun it is to open source your computer. (Myles Braithwaite)
- Unconferencing public policy. transitcamps, Metronauts and the power of conversation. (Mark Kuznicki)
- Running open (source) communities that work. (Louis Suarez-Potts)
- Open Salad. Using open source techniques to make lunch and meet new friends while you are at the office. (Dan Howard)
- Opening Scholarship. The open access publishing revolution. (Leslie Chan)
- linuxcaffe how "open everything" works in a retail/ restaurant setting. (David J Patrick)
- Creative Commons 101. A quick primer on how to open license your content in Canada. Marcus Bornfreund.
- Open surprise. Announcement of a new open source project (Jay Goldman)
Speedgeekers were asked to answer these questions in their presentation: Why is your
project open? What the benefits of being open? What are the challenges?