Amazingly, and unexpectedly for some, open source software is really good. And it's everywhere: as has been said before, you use Linux ten times a day and don't even know it. But that doesn't mean it doesn't have its challenges; for instance, because of the "scratch your own itch" philosophy behind open-source production, there are itches that don't get properly scratched: as open source makes further inroads into society, there are more and more people who use the software who can't program. But there's more. Software that works together with other software has more value than standalone software, and we need agreements on how to represent data, and how to link the data together. Open software, standards, open data are just some of the things necessary to take us to the next level of development.
Keynote: Open Source is not enough!Session time: Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 9:30am - 10:20am About the SpeakerSteven Pemberton
Chair, W3C XHTML2 and XForms Working Groups
Steven Pemberton is a researcher at the CWI, The Centre forMathematics and Computer Science, a nationally-fundedresearch centre based in Amsterdam, which was the firstnon-military Internet site in Europe. Steven's research isin interaction, and how the underlying software architecturecan support the user. In the 80's he helped design theprogramming language ABC (which Python is based on) and thisled to designing a system that if you saw it now you wouldcall a browser. As a result Steven became involved with theWorld Wide Web from the beginning, organising two workshopsat the first Web Conference in 1994, and chairing severalearly W3C workshops. He was a member of the CSS WorkingGroup from its start, and was a long-time member and chairof the HTML Working Group. He is co-author of (amongst otherthings) HTML 4, CSS, XHTML, RDFa, XForms, and XML Events.
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