Lately it occurs to me, what a long strange trip

it’s been

Steven Feldman

Me

Perspectives

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebelbeb/5244753318/

How customers chose software

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lamentables/1392918774/

Does it do the job?

Robustness and Support

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/3318600273

Feature requests

Scalability

http://www.flickr.com/photos/getbutterfly/6317955134/

Free

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yoghurt/2414338156/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmoorr/7669098910/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/centralasian/7986654321/

The freedom to …..

Cost

FOSS4GX

Ethics

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cin4ski/5059749916/

Intellectual property is

…..

Business responses

http://www.flickr.com/photos/huxhombre/5321871461/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthileo/4826783509/

Getting an Open badge

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/2412755417/

Spatial isn’t …

Gamekeeper turned

poacher

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdrummbks/3812623183/http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremybrooks/2177715225/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/balleyne/2668834386/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/layyourheaddown/6715504533/http://www.flickr.com/photos/loop_oh/

4493818473/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maistora/5285814043/

OpenStreetMap

Open Standards

Open Data

Open Source

17th – 21st Septemberwww.foss4g.org

Open is the freedom to …