http://www.stuermer.ch/blog Thoughts of Matthias Stürmer Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:28:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today I gave a talk at TransferSummit 2010 in Oxford on the Nokia Internet Tablet development (breaking news: "Nokia N-series devices to drop Symbian in favour of MeeGo"), Private-Collective Model of Innovation, benefits and cost of open source community building, the open source adoption matrix and 'open-washing' questions to firms. The ... http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/nokias-open-source-involvement.html Tonight I had a very special speech at Netzzunft guest at the Open Broadcast studios in Basel, a new user-generated radio station. Evangelism 2.0 was the topic where Sascha Corti, Technology Evangelist at Microsoft, Peter Schulz, CTO at Joiz, and I had to talk about our individual perspective of evangelism ... http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/evangelism-2-point-0.html I'm very much looking forward to the upcoming TransferSummit in June in Oxford, UK. The organizers accomplished to setup a great speaker list with lots of interesting open source evangelists (including my humble self talking about my dissertational research). This will feel like a family gathering to meet fellows such ... http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/transfersummit2010.html A bit more than a year ago I ran for a post in the city parliament of Bern and almost got a position there. While local politics is nice, it becomes even more interesting on a departmental level. Therefore I'm now *jevp candidate and also motivated 19 other young men ... http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/next-try-for-a-step-in-my-political-career.html Yesterday around 40 people joined a little expedition on the Faulhorn to ride the longest sledging trail of Europe - a great way of starting the age above 30! And fortunately this time it was much better weather than five years ago ;) http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/how-the-serious-part-of-my-life-started.html As Google knows everything anyway today we decided from now on we manage our family finances with Google Docs. After long negotiations we agreed on a common categorization of our spendings. My highlite of the day was that I could play around with Google Spreadsheets and program a little 'lightweight' ... http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/managing-family-finances-with-google-docs.html Finally the Wikipedia DE community accepted the entry for "Digitale Nachhaltigkeit". Just hours after my initial publication of the short article a request for deletion was posted by Wikipedia watchers. This was followed by a long discussion between the editors, Thorsten Busch, and myself. In the end, one of the ... http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/digitale-nachhaltigkeit-is-finally-in-wikipedia-de.html There hasn't been a political vote for a long time that has been so important to me: the prohibition of weapon exports. I've given several public statements at StopArmut events, discussion panels and party meetings on my opinion to ban Swiss military exports. Below is the ad which was published ... http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/vote-against-swiss-weapon-exports.html Yesterday I had a talk at the 3rd E-Government Symposium in Bern about how to use the open source community principle in e-government projects. Interest in the topic was huge compared to my speech two years ago. This time the room was full of people. Many came to me after ... http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/how-to-use-the-open-source-community-principle-in-e-government.html Today was one of my most political days: First, in the afternoon, I met Federal Council Micheline Calmy-Rey and Martin Dahinden, the director of the Swiss Development Agency, in order to pass them on a petition of our campaign StopArmut 2015. They took 20 minutes to listen to our concern that ... http://www.stuermer.ch/blog/meeting-micheline-calmy-rey.html