OpenTech 2005 is the successor conference to last year’s NotCon and 2003’s Festival of Inappropriate Computing, put on by NTK and the UK Unix Users’ Group. It’s sponsored this year by backstage.bbc.co.uk, the BBC’s project to expose its data as a series of web-services and APIs, and the thrust is “open source” development and methodologies. Like all the NTK conferences, this one is bound to be funny, irreverent, and rife with tipsy hilarity.
They’ve put out a Call for Proposals — if you want to present your open technology, this is the place to do it:
Saturday July 23rd – The Reynolds Building, Hammersmith, London W6 8RP
If you’re
reverse-engineering proprietary protocols, making useful information
available in a way people couldn’t get at before, pioneering
unexpected methods of knowledge sharing – or (equally likely) doing
something so cool we haven’t even thought of it yet, then please get
in touch via the submissions form at:
(Thanks, Etienne!)