Back from the OSWC2008 at Malaga
Last week in Malaga we had the opportunity to attend the 5th Open Source World Conference, a Spanish-centric (despite its name), politics-driven event of megalomaniac proportions with 8,000 visitors. I consider this conference to be the yearly meeting of everyone working on open source in Spain and it is an opportunity of doing a great networking during three days in a row from dawn till dusk and beyond. It was great to meet old and new friends and get updates of everyone’s status. I also felt very flattered with all the good feedback I heard about eBox and our approach 
I had the chance to meet most of the people at Cenatic, the National Reference Centre for the Application of Open Source Information and Communication Technologies, which is a relatively new public initiative to orchestrate and promote the national policies around open source software. After talking with them in different contexts and attending some of the events they organized during the conference I am pretty optimistic about Cenatic’s success. I think they have created a group of good professionals who understand and really support open source and know how to collaborate with people from other organizations.
I also had the chance to attend an interesting session by Raven Zachary from The 451 Group who showed a brilliant analysis on the situation of open source business today and some perspectives of its evolution for the next years.
The next open source world conference will be in one year in Caceres, Extremadura. See you there!
