I have the distinct pleasure of chairing the EBU Open Source workshop later today, having been invited to do so and give the opening welcome/talk. For a while I've been wracking my brains about "how do you open a workshop on open source where there's going to be a lot said on a lot of interesting topics without prejudging them or jumping the gun?". I decided therefore to do the only thing you can - to talk about what it means to me, why I develop open source, and what speaks to me. After all, many people distrust the concept of "something for nothing" (even though that's not really what open source is!).

One thing that speaks to me is the IBM advert for Linux from a few years ago. I was stunned at the time at them getting such a good metaphor. (In the slides where it says (video) it's referring to this advert)

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