Yesterday, I attended the first ever StatusCamp held in Montreal, and came away being very impressed with what I saw. How often does one get to attend an public unconference organized by a venture funded startup? Present in full force was the power-packed Status.Net team which included the former CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation, Brian [...]
Entries from December 2009
December 13, 2009
Reflections on Digital Media Camp
It has been a long but very fulfilling day unconferencing Open Space style at Digital Media Camp Toronto. The key headlines: There is a nation-wide effort under the umbrella of Canada 3.0 and Canadian Digital Media Network that all stakeholders in the Canadian Digital Media landscape should participate in. The goal of this initiative is [...]
December 1, 2009
Do Open Source and Venture Capital Mix?
The short answer is in fact a question: “Why not?” Or more pertinently, we should be asking why we are asking this question at all. For starters, it is not quite fair to group all venture capitalists together, nor does it really make sense doing the same for open source projects. Open source business models [...]

