Why a blog, why here, why me?
One day, sometime during the production of OSiM 2007, I looked up from my desk and found myself in the most extraordinary privileged position.
In researching the conference, I had spoken to almost one hundred individuals across the mobile and PC industries. I had first approached these individuals – strategists, evangelists, CTOs, developers and project leaders – for a research brief on their work in mobile software, and their priorities for an open source conference. Instead, our calls and meetings became something more…
Fifteen minute briefs became forty minute discussions on ideas and innovations. The voices on the other end of the line shared enthusiasm, inspiration, hopes and opinion. I heard experiences from beginnings of Linux in PC, the fragmentations, the forking, the hope that lessons can be learned. I heard excitement from the first mobile projects using open source, enthusiasm for what open source methodology could achieve, on how best to contribute back. I heard passionate debate on the philosophies behind Free Software and Open Source. I heard both scepticism and idealism on whether open source and Linux can really gain traction in mobile, and whether they should. I heard experience from the code-face and the board room.
In short, I had the privilege to speak with the most inspirational and forward thinking minds in mobile. Through this blog, I’d like to introduce you to them too.
