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ETD 2006 - rest of day 1 and all of day 2

Fri, 2006/06/09 - 9:51pm — mark

Art Rhyno presented on open source software. This was a broad overview which focused on the benefits of open source and also the general health of open source software in libraries. Although the whole hour was great -- for example, seeing actual photos of executives from major software companies frothing at the mouth while spreading fear uncertainty and doubt about open source always makes me smile -- the highlight for me was Art's story that expresses the essence of open source software.

ETD 2006 - morning of day 1

Fri, 2006/06/09 - 11:39am — mark

[Note: Edited June 9 to clean up some pretty egregious and numerous typos.]

I'm lucky enough to be at ETD 2006 in Quebec City, and want to share some of my notes. At the end of the first day I can say that this is an excellent conference for anyone involved with electronic theses and dissertations, and since this is an international conference, the variety of approaches to supporting the creation of and access to this extremely important body of knowledge is wide and at the same time remarkably cohesive.