[BALUG-Talk] CARPOOL Monday23June futuresalon.org CrowdOpenSourcedMobileDevices

[William Heath]

Hello,
I would like to go to this.  What time does it start and what is the exact
address of SAP labs?  Can I have someone's cell # so I can call them if I
need to?

-Tim

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:01 PM, john_re <john_re at fastmail.us> wrote:

> Want to offer a carpool to Palo Alto, CA?
> Ride offered from Berkeley if you will split gas/bridgetoll. Email me
> your phone#.
> futuresalon requests you RSVP at the link below too.
> Please email me if you decide to go to this (even if you don't carpool),
> so I'll get an idea as to if this event is of interest to BALUGers.
> Thaks.
>
> =====
> http://www.futuresalon.org/2008/06/mobile-devices.html
> Crowd and Open Sourced Mobile Devices Future Salon
>
> O.K. everyone let's all stop the drooling over the iPhone. There are in
> my opinion more interesting developments happening in the mobile
> handheld space.
>
> Two of them we will look at on Monday the 23rd of June at our usual hang
> out SAP Labs.
>
> First there is Ismael Ghalimi who gave away at his Office 2.0 conference
> one year an iPod Nano, last year an iPhone and had the crazy idea, that
> the participants of the conference could develop with him the device for
> this year's Office 2.0. He calls it the Redux Model 1. In his own words:
>
>    The more interesting option would be to build our own device. By
>    that I mean designing, certifying, and manufacturing our very own
>    piece of hardware, all in the one year that separates us for the
>    next Office 2.0 Conference. Today's engineering processes make such
>    a challenge technically feasible, but for someone who has never done
>    it before, and has no engineering budget for it, this is virtually
>    impossible, so by all means, please assume that we will fail and
>    have to revert to option 1. But if you dare to dream with us for a
>    moment, feel free to read what follows.[more]
>
> Last time I talked with him he was looking for a CEO for the venture,
> but not certain whether it will be available for Office 2.0. Still the
> approach of getting input from his network and publically develop a new
> device is such a novel approach, that I invited him to speak about his
> experiences.
>
> Buglabs_bug_2Another interesting development I found at Buglabs.
> Doc Searls is convinced, that the IT industry is going to develop
> similar to the construction industry. Check out this article:
>
>    This change in perception is tied to the relative (im)maturity of
>    the computer indus-
>    try; when it finishes growing up, it will look much like the
>    construction industry.
>
> Now the folks at Buglabs have created a mobile base station that they
> call the bug and they have many modules that you can connect to it like
> Lego blocks.  The cool thing is, that software as well as hardware is
> Open Source, that means there is only a limit in imagination and funds
> to possible extensions of the bug.
>
> Jeremy Toeman from Buglabs will present their approach and current
> status. He also promised to bring some bugs and extensions.  It is going
> to be very interesting.
>
> Jeremy Toeman (JT) is an expert in digital media and consumer
> technology. Over the past ten years he has designed, built, and marketed
> numerous award-winning products in the "convergence" space. Jeremy is
> currently the VP of Marketing for Bug Labs, and is also a consultant
> advising companies on both product design and deployment as well as
> non-traditional marketing (such as community-driven) strategies.
>
>  Ismael Ghalimi  [LinkedIn], a passionate entrepreneur and fervent
>  industry observer, founder and CEO of Intalio, creator of BPMI.org,
>  initiator of the BPM 2.0 movement, producer of the Office 2.0
>  Conference, organizer of the Extreme Productivity Seminars, and
>  designer of the Redux Model 1. Ismael is an advisor to several
>  high-tech companies, including 3TERA, AdventNet (a.k.a. Zoho),
>  Buzzgain, Diigo, EchoSign, EveryTrail, G.ho.st, Move & Play, and
>  ThinkFree. Ismael is a professional scuba diver, instrument rated
>  private pilot, and American V-Twin rider. Ismael lives with his wife
>  and daughter in Palo Alto, CA, and can be reached at
>  ismael at itredux.com.
>
> Future Salons have the following structure: 6-7pm is networking with
> light refreshments proudly sponsored by SAP; 7-9+pm is the presentation
> followed by questions and discussion. SAP Labs North America, Building
> D, Room Southern Cross or Cafeteria depending on number of RSVPs. SAP is
> located at 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304[map]. Free and open
> to the public. Please spread the word and invite others, but be sure to
> RSVP so we know how many people to expect.
>
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