First Open Forum Academy Conference Proceedings - Open Enterprise

"Last week, I mentioned that I attended the Open Forum Europe 2012 conference. Preceeding it was the first meeting of the Open Forum Academy (OFA), of which I am a member. Here's how it describes itself: Openforum Academy is a think tank with a broad aim to examine the paradigm shift towards openness in computing that is currently underway, and to explore how this trend is changing the role of computing in society. About half the fellowship met last Monday to discuss openness in various forms. I gave a short rambling introduction, which happily has now been lost in the background noise of the universe, but a good number of the other fellows not only spoke, but also prepared academic papers exploring various aspects of openness. The OFA has already published these; even better, it has done so under a cc-by-sa 3.0 licence, for which it deserves kudos. Here's a quick rundown of the papers..."