Open Source and Open Innovation with whurley

Wired Magazine just published their coverage of preDevCamp. Here’s a bit of the sotry: William Hurley — more commonly known by his hacker nickname “whurley” — is one of the developers in charge of organizing PreDevCamp. He also had a hand in starting iPhoneDevCamp, a nonprofit meet-up that helped mobilize third-party application developme

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This weekend BarCampAustin3 (held during SxSW) featured a ton of amazing things including some fantastic sessions, a mini iPhoneDevCamp, and a singing Unicorn at Karaoke Apocalypse. All went well save one small incident involving a 340lb BattleBot malfunctioning and then taking off as fast as it could for the closest Microsoft employees (including

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Exactly one week after the debut of the iPhone, Raven Zachary asked Chris Messina and yours truley to co-found the first iPhoneDevCamp. Hundreds of developers and enthusiasts huddled together to work on and play with their new favorite toy. Modeled after BarCamp, an ad-hoc gathering, iPhoneDevCamp is free and organized by volunteers, and [...]

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This week I’m in New York City to speak at the 2nd Annual Enterprise Open Source Conference. Instead of getting a room, I’m staying with Noel Hidalgo, a friend from the community. Besides being a great guy to hang out with, Noel’s wears an activist, an organizer, a blogger and a barcamper, a coworker, and [...]

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Next week I’m leading the “Open Source, the Web, Interoperability, and Microsoft” panel at Mix07 in Vegas, my first Microsoft conference. Naturally, I’ve been pondering the topic so I don’t end up on stage with my pants around my ankles. The more I think about it, the more I think Microsoft loves open source—and not [...]

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