Integrating Sustainable Development with Business Strategy

Stephen Huddart, who wrote Open Source, Social Innovation and a New Economy of Engagement in the September 2008 issue of the OSBR, will be speaking at the Roundtable on Social Innovation at HEC Montreal.

Open Source Panel in Ottawa

FOSSLC is hosting a leaders panel discussion on April 2 to discuss open source and business. Panel leaders include the CEO of Ingres, the CEO of DM Solutions, Eclipse's Director of Ecosystem Development, the President of OpenConcept Consulting and Senior IT analyst from the Treasury Board Secretariat. Details and registration are here.

From Inspiration to Activation: Making Online Collaborative Communities Work

Free Colloquium event in Fredericton, NB on March 23. From the abstract:

Inspiration is a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for collaborative communities to work. Such communities often make use of complex Internet-based tool systems. In these systems, work gets distributed over many tools, often leading to the fragmentation of communicative acts. To address this problem, explicit attention needs to be paid to community activation. We outline a conceptual model of online collaborative communities. We introduce the use of collaboration patterns for defining socio-technical design solutions for activation problems. We illustrate the approach by discussing the results from a digital class experiment. Applications ranging from e-government to scientific collaborations are discussed.