[ILUG] Open Source 2.0

[Colm MacCarthaigh]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 03:38:56PM +0100, Kae Verens wrote:
> Peter McEvoy wrote:
> >Hi,
> >there was something along those lines a while back in Belfast.
> >
> >http://foss-means-business.org/Home
> >
> >Of course, thats no reason not to organise another one...
> 
> 
> then, there's BarCamp in Cork at the end of the month
> http://barcamp.org/BarCampIreland

BarCamp is a vaccous waste of time and energy, managing to
simulataneously affront your brain with complete bullshit whilst
generating the really annoying feeling that that's also your fault,
since this is a 2.0 participative event and "whatever the crowd wants
goes".

So basically it ends up being a bunch of people speaking who were both
desperate enough for attention that they whitstood the
random-edits-of-a-wiki process of session selection and self-deluded
enough to not realise how trivial the entire excersise is.

Oh and it's not about open source or anything like it. It's about
web 2.0., being a blogging consultant, and all of that crap.

After sticking around for the Introduction to Digital Rights Ireland
talk last year (which actually was productive and went quite well),
I don't think I've ever been more pleased to leave an even early.

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Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: colm+pgp at stdlib.net