Open Everything Free Conference this Saturday, April 18th!

Open Everything

You're invited to “Open Everything NYC.” It's free, and will be this
Saturday from 9am-6pm, plus a gathering after the event is planned.

Location:
UNICEF Headquarters at 3 United Nations Plaza, between 1st & 2nd ave,
near 44th street. I think you will have to go through the main
gate/check point first.

Registration: http://tr.im/iG2u...
Registration is only allowed until noon tomorrow due to security at the UN. Sorry for the short notice folks.

Event Info:
Open Everything is a global conversation about the art, science and
spirit of 'open'. It gathers people using openness to create and
improve software, education, media, philanthropy, architecture,
neighborhoods, workplaces and the society we live in: everything. It's
about thinking, doing and being open.

Let's take open source thinking beyond the tech world. What actually
gets discussed on the day depends on who shows up, and what they're
passionate about.

Doors open at 8am, starts at 9am, ends at 6pm. I hope you can attend
at whatever time.

Open is changing the game. And, while Wikipedia and open source
software offer great examples of what's up, we know that openness,
collaboration and participation are spreading well beyond the realm of
technology. It's about value, and values. Where open is headed is
huge. Open Everything gathers people who are charting this trajectory.

Many of us are mashing-up different kinds of open. Open source. Open
space. Open orgware. Openness is at the core of our businesses,
organizations and networks. Open Everything is for us and by us: it's
about connecting and looking under the hood of each others' projects,
seeing how they tick, when they work and where they break. It's a
about learning how to do open better, together.

Featured speakers:

Leslie Hawthorn - Google, Inc. | Common Sense
Just as the adoption of Free and Open Source software has seen a
significant uptake in the past few years, so have the principles of
meritocracy and transparency that underpin this development
methodology. These two principles have broad implications for both
civic life and the business world, promising to empower citizens
through greater access to data and disruption of existing models. In
this talk, Leslie will explore some areas in which the concept of Open
could be most broadly useful, where it is taking hold successfully and
where we still must journey to achieve the promise of an Open world.
She will also explore some best practices for engaging effectively
with this Open world using lessons learned from her work with the FOSS
community.

About Leslie: Leslie Hawthorn is a Program Manager for Google's Open
Source Programs Office, where she's the Community Manager for the
Google Summer of Code community. She recently conceived, launched and
managed the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, the world's
first global initiative to get pre-university students involved in all
aspects of Open Source software development. Leslie has also organized
more than 100 open source conferences and hackathons, most held at
Google's Corporate Headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA.
When not wrangling FOSS developers, she's usually speaking about Open
Source, FOSS in education, and community building or writing for the
Google Open Source Blog. Prior to joining Google, Leslie got her feet
wet in Silicon Valley high tech at a small communications
semiconductor startup, where she worked in Marketing and Public
Relations. She holds a Honors B.A. in English Language and Literature
from U.C. Berkeley and her personal website is
http://www.hawthornla....

Robert David Steele - OSS.net | Open Source Intelligence
Robert David Steele, the foremost proponent for Open Source
Intelligence (OSINT) and public intelligence in the public interest,
will introduce “the other open source.” In combination, Free/Open
Source Software (F/OSS) and OSINT empower the public as never before.
Information asymmetries and data pathologies that have been used to
concentrate wealth and perpetuate poverty, disease, and the
externalization of environmental costs, as well as to promote wars
that benefit the few at the expense of the many, will be explained.
Each person registered in advance for this event will receive a free
copy of the speaker’s book, THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal,
Public, & Political (OSS, 2003). Robert will remain for the rest of
the afternoon to interact in a small group setting, and will also be
available to do an impromptu “SPY IMPROV: Everything You Ever Wanted
to Know,” should there be a sufficiency of interest.

About Robert: Robert David Steele Vivas, 56, is a former US spy,
co-founder of the US Marine Corps Intelligence Center (today a
Command), and CEO of Open Source Solutions Network (OSS.Net, Inc.) as
well as pro bono CEO and angel funder of Earth Intelligence Network, a
501c3 Public Charity that creates public intelligence
(decision-support) in the public interest. For 20 years he has been
the foremost international proponent for Open Source Intelligence
(OSINT), and offers 30,000 pages of free information online from 750
international authorities, all easily accessed via www.oss.net/BASIC
and www.oss.net/LIBRARY. Since 2002 he has helped pioneer peace
intelligence and is the originator of he proposal for a United Nations
Open-Source Decision-Support Information Network (UNODIN) to be funded
by the United States of America, and to include an Assistant Secretary
General for Decision-Support, a Multinational Decision-Support Centre
that relies exclusively on open sources of information that can be
easily shared with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) and other
stakeholders, and a diplomatic Office of Information Sharing Treaties
and Agreements.

He is the author of ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy in an Open
World; THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal, Public, & Political;
INFORMATION OPERATIONS: All Information, All Languages, All the Time;
THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest; and
ELECTION 2008: Lipstick on the Pig. He is the contributing editor of
PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future and is the
contributing publisher of COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a
Prosperous World at Peace, and of PEACE INTELLIGENCE: Assuring a Good
Life for All (forthcoming, raw material at www.oss.net/PEACE). All of
his books are available at both Amazon in hard-copy, and free online
at www.oss.net. His vision for the future of Earth Intelligence can be
reviewed at www.earth-intelligence.net.

Map/directions
http://nyc.openeveryt...


Address
UNICEF House
3 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10016