the law of averages

I’m in Portland, Oregon this week for OSCON 2008. Asheesh and I are speaking tomorrow on ccREL and liblicense.

Things I’m hoping to see this week:

• lots of attention paid to identi.ca, not just as an alternative to Twitter but as a first step towards truly open services,
• lots of discussion about how free software can enable user autonomy,
• corporate suit-types excoriated for not giving back (or for expecting us to build our “open” systems on theirs (I’m looking at you, Sourceforge 2.0 Atlassian).

So I’m probably just dreaming when it comes to the last one (maybe all of them, particularly with my qualifier of lots), but for the first time in a few years, there are actually talks I want to go to scheduled against one another. Maybe I’ll have to revise Yergler’s Theorem of Conference Value. But probably not.