FOSSLC

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Thomas Prowse will describe the evolution of his company's alternative delivery model for open source software legal information services. This service is built on the foundation of "commons sourcing” a term which Thomas coined some time ago to describe the pooling of shared information based resources under OSS methodologies for use by companies for commercial purposes. Thomas will demonstrate how n2one inc.'s Commons Knowledge™ service harnesses the power of commons sourcing to offer affordable subscription based access to developers, lawyers, and business leaders to world class practical OSS related legal information resources.

Thomas, who was peer selected for the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada in the Technology Law speciality, was formerly the Global Law Department leader on the Nortel Open Source Advisory Team and is currently a partner at a major Canadian law firm. Thomas will put forward his company's concrete business offering and model as a proof point for his deeply held conviction that commons sourcing represents both the future of legal and other professional services and a third wave of global commercial transformation!

This talk introduces geospatial features added to Ingres for Ingres 10.1 and provides a glimpse at the roadmap for Ingres geospatial.

OpenStreetMap is a free (as in speech) wiki-editable map of the world. The OpenStreetMap project is working on mapping roads, rivers, schools, pubs and most and many other things by sending people out into the world with GPS units, notepads and cameras.

This talk will cover an introduction to OpenStreetMap and show attendees how they can start adding to the map.

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Some time before the SummerCamp a new Canadian Copyright bill will be tabled. Since Canada intends to ratify the 1996 WIPO treaties it will contain some form of legal protection for technical measures, also known as anti-circumvention legislation.

I will provide some aids to understanding different types of technical measures, and well as reasons why some are highly controversial while others are not. (Hint: It matters who owns the thing that is locked, and who holds the keys)

We will go through a little history discussing the origins of this policy, as well as a few treaties, trade agreements, and laws in other countries which contain this policy.

In the discussion it is expected we will encourage participants to become politically involved in helping clarify this issue for politicians and other policy makers, so we can avoid (or amend) very bad laws.