Ed

Thanks for your thoughtful comment. You clearly took something from the event as well, with some planned networking of your own. I think that we might last night, but just briefly.

The crowd was certainly a good mix of people, including several like yourself who claim to not really be part of the new-media scene. But 1) you were following the signups on the wiki and 2) you’ve left a long comment to the blog, so you’re clearly not a complete newbie at this. Don’t sell yourself short!

I didn’t even include the wiki component in my original post, but that was yet another new-media element incorporate into this event.

Do you have plans to read the book yourself?

The speed of this publication is shocking to me. This blog thing is new to an old school land line guy like myself; and fascinating. I was at the book-launch. I met several interesting people including some of Michael Raynor’s business school colleagues that made the trip from Toronto and NY, several people, like yourself, that attended podcamps and the like, and several local business owners. I had fun.

I was there to meet up with a potential client who suggested we meet at the book-launch and network before we talked business. We had a long discussion about whether a software invention operating on open source code can be patented. My opinion is that it can because the invention is independent of the source code that it is running on. However, we agreed to review the open source code software licenses to determine what limitations are placed on its use and further development.

I did not know Michael Raynor or his books but I did talk to him for more than 15 minutes and received a free copy of his book. Thank you Michael.

The WiKi sign up process was also fascinating to me. I used it to check out the attendees before I showed up and as it turned out not everyone on the WiKi list did show up, and that was a little disappointing.

In any event, thanks for this forum. It was nice to meet you.