Yesterday was the opening party at Gnomedex. Pretty interesting crowd made of geeks, lots of entrepreneurs, journalists and bloggers. The food was well above expectations for me. There was an open bar until around 9PM (after that we've passed the $2K budget). I've met about 15 or so people on the first night. So far Gnomedex is on track to be a very successful event for me.
One thing that I learned yesterday after talking with a few startups is that some people don't realize how small their product/company is. There is this self-importance factor that a lot of entrepreneurs don't get it. I'll elaborate more on that later.
Robert Steele is talking about "Open Everything". The presentation started in a good tone comparing the expenditures of War and Peace. But then...
I have a problem with anybody that is against proprietary technology. Most people are reasonable and believe that there is a place to proprietary and to open, more specifically proprietary and open source.
When somebody tells me that "every code should be open", then he is not allowing me to decide what is best for my code or for my company, he's being a dictator. You can't talk about open transparency and yet force people to be transparent.
You cannot force people into believing what you believe. That is communistic, fascistic, dictatorial, slavery.
Robert Steele is clearly a very smart guy, he has a lot of good insights, but some of his opinions and suggestions are just fundamentally broken.
Guy Kawasaki gave talk on the Art of Evangelism. Very good. Guy knows how to work an audience. I've heard many of those points before, but it's always good to hear them again.
After that was lunch, and, OMG (my teenager side speaking)... The food was so good that is hard to believe this is a tech conference.
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October, 2007
