Mark Surman, commonspace, shares his experience of the September 15 Open Everything half-day event held in Lien Center for Social Innovation, Singapore.
We had about half local NGOs, half local social entrepreneurs and a very small smattering of the usual software / open content / open edu crowd.
The speedgeeks seemed like the big highlight for most people. Personally, I really enjoyed listening in on Gary Kwong as he answered questions about how the Mozilla community works and what’s going on with Chrome. Andrew Lowenthal’s wide ranging ‘open source for NGOs‘ talk and Giorgos Cheliotis overview of Creative Commons licensing were also great. These presentations dropped people fast and deep into basic open source thinking, which was what they wanted.
All in all, an interesting event. Very useful in terms of a bridge from ‘open everything’ thinking into the mainstream NGO and social entreprenuership world. We need more of that.
