Join us for the San Francisco Net Tuesday on September 9:
Involver: How Nonprofits Can Create Video Campaigns for Social Networks.
Patrick Ball starts session by asking why do we need PowerPoint instead of Open Source at this conference? No good answer.
from alliance org, open source consulting to Fortune 500
Talks about the value of a commercial ecosystem
He fell in love with a movement, based on Eric Raymond's "the Cathedral and the Bazaar" http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/
Healthy commercial Open Source spurs innovation
More than 20 proprietary vendors have open sourced their code in the last month, SugarCRM andFunabol