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Select Conference Papers, Interviews, and Articles Open Source: Articles and Interviews Interview (video), OOoCon 2007, September 2007, Barcelona Interview (video), fisl 8.0, April 2007, Porto Alegre, Brazil Interview (video), OOoCon 2006, September (Kiberpipa) Interview on the Tech Conference Show, September, 2006 Interview by Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier: State of the OpenOffice.org, July 2006 Interview by Andrew Updegrove (with John McCreesh), ConsortiumInfo.org, May 2006 Interview by Rosa Sposito, April 2006 Interview, Lulu TV, Boston LinuxWorld Expo, March 2006 Interview by Marshall Kirkpatrick, NetSquared, 14 April 2006 Interview by Anannya Nath, EFY News Network, 8 February 2006 Interview by Richard Giles (podcast), October 2005 Interview by Christian Einfeldt, "Mad Penguin," October 2005 Interview by "Kiberpipa Slovenia" at OOoCon (video), September 2005 Interview by Joshua Chalifour, "Technology Evaluation," July 2005 Interview by Mayank Sharma, "NewsForge," May 2005 Interview by Bruce Byfield "News Forge," October 2004 Indian Linux Users' Group, Kolkata Chapter, May 2004 Interview, by Paul Cesarini, on the Sun-Microsoft deal, April 2004 Several interviews, "Linux For You," March 2004 LinuxWorld Interview, August 2003 ZDNet Interview 2003-04-09. Download Real Video link to disk: 56K \| 200K Publications On open source and OpenOffice.org: a series of articles from 2001 - present Review: Dreaming in Code, by Scott Rosenberg New Scientist, 17 February 2007 "The logic of sponsored open-source development," a work in progress on the difference sponsored open-source projects make to open source. Open Source: Selected Conference Presentations TBD, Asia Open Source Conference and Show Case, Bangkok, Thailand, November 2007 "Shifting the focus: OpenOffice.org 3.0," TBD, Free Software & Open Source Symposium 07, Toronto, Canada, October 2007 "What do governments want? Or, OpenOffice.org and ODF," TBD, Goscon, Portland, USA, October 2007 "Shift in focus: OpenOffice.org 3.0," TBD Ontario Linux Fest, Toronto, Canada, October 2007 "Beyond code and politics," Festvial Software Livre-DF, Brasilia, Brazil, October 2007 "Write the future now: OpenOffice.org," Festvial Software Livre-DF, Brasilia, Brazil, October 2007 "State of the Project, 2007," OOoCon 2007, Barcelona, Spain, September 2007 "OpenOffice.org 3.0 and Beyond," keynote, OOoCon 2007, Barcelona, Spain, September 2007 "Developing Free-and Open-Source Projects," Interop 2007, Moscow, Russia, May 2007 "The future of OpenOffice.org--and how it can be yours," fisl 8.0, Porto Alegre, Brazil, April 2007 "Contributing to OpenOffice.org," Boteco 4Linux, São Paulo, Brazil, April 2007 "Re-Thinking Boundaries: Beyond the Office Suite," LinuxAsia 2007, New Delhi, India, January 2007 "Contributing to OpenOffice.org," IEG, Hyderabad, India, January 2007 "Working in a FOSS Project (and how to start one)," GNUnify 2007, Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies, Pune, India "The Case for the OpenDocument Format,"SoftExpo, Seoul, Korea, November 2006 "The Social Logic of Freedom: OpenOffice.org, Open Source and Open Standards,' FSOSS, Toronto, Canada, October 2006 Panel on User Perspectives on OpenDocument Format (ODF), The Berkman Center, Boston, USA, October 2006 "Making It Work: How to Build a Successful Open Source Project," EuroOSCON, Brussels, Belgium, September 2006 "OpenOffice.org: Year 6," OOoCon 2006, Lyon, France, September 2006 "Monetizing OpenOffice.org," OOoCon 2006, Lyon, France, September 2006 "The Responsibility of Governments? Open Source, Open Standards," LinuxWorld Korea, Seoul, Koera, June 2006 Panel presentation on OpenOffice.org and OASIS OpenDocument format use in government, LinuxWorld Boston, April 2006 "The Migration to OpenOffice.org," LinuxForum 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2006 "OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument Format," keynote, the LinuxForum 2006 Conference, New Delhi, India, February 2006 "The Global Politics of Free Software/Open Source Licensing," part of the panel, "Intellectual Property and Its Discontents," which I organized; 2005 Modern Language Association Convention in Washington, DC, December 2005 "The Impact of OpenDocument and OpenOffice.org, Kansai Open Source Conference," Osaka, Japan, October 2005 "Why Open Source is the Answer," keynote, OSS Global Emerging Technology Executive Summit, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2005 "Is Open Software any good for Business? The Case of OpenOffice.org," keynote, Linux/Open Source Forum 2005, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2005 "Year 5: The State of OpenOffice.org," OOoCon 2005, Koper, Slovenia, September 2005 "Imagining an OpenOffice.org Foundation," BoF, OOoCon 2005, Koper, Slovenia, September 2005 "Bridging the Divide: OpenOffice.org and Open Source Community Development," FISL 2005, Porto Alegre, Brazil, June 2005 "Free Source, Free Communities?" the Open Source Forum, Moscow, Russia, April 2005 "Developing a working free community," Free and Open Source Days, Istanbul, Turkey, March 2005 "Community Development and Managed Collaboration," LinuxAsia 2005, New Delhi, India, February 2005 "Why Open Source Software is the Solution," XpoLinux, Monterrey, Mexico, November 2004 "Open Source Is the Future: What Does that Mean?" Kansai 2004 Free and Open Source Conference, Osaka, Japan "OpenOffice.org: Year 4," OOoCo2004, Berlin, Germany, September 2004 "OpenOffice.org: Community, Code, Collaboration," a series of presentations and workshops at the ebusiness forum, Athens and Iraklion, Greece, April 2004 "Local Wealth: OpenOffice.org," keynote presentation at LinuxAsia 2004, New Delhi, India, February 2004 "The Open Source Desktop," panel presentation at SDForum's Open Source Summit, December 2003 "The Structure of a Revolution in Production: The Case of OpenOffice.org," Kansai Open Source Conference, Osaka, Japan, November 2003 "Enterprise Strategies and Open Source: The Case of OpenOffice.org," presented at OSCON 2003, Portland, Oregon, July 2003 "StarOffice/Open Office: Changing the Ecology of Software Creation and Dissemination," EGovOS Conference on Open Standards/Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and EU, George Washington University, Washington, DC, March 2003 "Where Do We Go from Here? The Future of OpenOffice.org," OOoCon: OpenOffice.org Conference, University of Hamburg, Germany, March 2003 Cultural Studies: Selected Conference Presentations "Mark Twain's Narratives of Governmentality," International Conference on Narrative, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 6-9 April 2006 "The Erotic Tactics of the Paraliterary," Critical Symposium on Samuel R. Delany at the State University of New York at Buffalo, 23-24 March 2006 "Unhomely Pleasures: Dislocation in Twain's Works," Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, DC, December 2005 "Apostate Logic: Resisting Will," paper in the panel, "Theories of the Will in US Culture," chair and organizer, Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, December, 2004 "Women and Economics," Jack London Studies conference, Santa Rosa, May 2004 "Mobility, Desire, and the Naturalist Tramp," American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 2004; an expanded version of this paper was requested for publication in Dreiser Studies "Memoir or Novel? Autobiography and Generic Indeterminacy," panel chair, Narrative, An International Conference, University of California, Berkeley, March 2003 "The Erotics of Government: Hysteria and Fin-de-Siècle Joan of Arc," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, March 2003 "Writing Outside the Law: Personal Accounts of Tramp Life," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Conference, George Mason University, April 2002 "Producing the Popular Work: Bohemianism in "Martin Eden,” Popular Culture Association Meeting, Toronto, March 2002 "Mimesis, Identity, Trauma in The Turn of the Screw," Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Kentucky, Louisville, February, 2002; an expanded version of the paper requested for publication by The Henry James Review "Narratives of Desire, Disarticulations of Identity [in Samuel Delany’s Atlantis]," Modern Language Association 2000, Washington, D.C., December 2000 "Jack London and Josiah Flynt," Jack London Studies Conference, Santa Rosa, CA, October 2000 "Will and the Figure of the American Tramp," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference 2000, Yale University, April 2000 "Mark Twain and U.S. Foreign Policy," International House Conference on Mark Twain, U.C. Berkeley, October 1996 Cultural Criticism: Articles "Like Nobody: Mimesis, Identity, Desire in The Turn of the Screw," accepted for contingent publication at the Henry James Review "Doing a Man's Job: Anti-Imperialism and Mark Twain's Joan of Arc," work in progress "Drift or Mastery": Tramping, Will, Desire,” work in progress

Open Source: Articles and Interviews

Several interviews, "Linux For You," March 2004

LinuxWorld Interview, August 2003

ZDNet Interview 2003-04-09. Download Real Video link to disk: 56K | 200K

Publications

On open source and OpenOffice.org: a series of articles from 2001 - present

Review: Dreaming in Code, by Scott Rosenberg New Scientist, 17 February 2007

"The logic of sponsored open-source development," a work in progress on the difference sponsored open-source projects make to open source.

Open Source: Selected Conference Presentations

TBD, Asia Open Source Conference and Show Case, Bangkok, Thailand, November 2007

"Shifting the focus: OpenOffice.org 3.0," TBD, Free Software & Open Source Symposium 07, Toronto, Canada, October 2007

"What do governments want? Or, OpenOffice.org and ODF," TBD, Goscon, Portland, USA, October 2007

"Shift in focus: OpenOffice.org 3.0," TBD Ontario Linux Fest, Toronto, Canada, October 2007

"Beyond code and politics," Festvial Software Livre-DF, Brasilia, Brazil, October 2007

"Write the future now: OpenOffice.org," Festvial Software Livre-DF, Brasilia, Brazil, October 2007

"State of the Project, 2007," OOoCon 2007, Barcelona, Spain, September 2007

"OpenOffice.org 3.0 and Beyond," keynote, OOoCon 2007, Barcelona, Spain, September 2007

"Developing Free-and Open-Source Projects," Interop 2007, Moscow, Russia, May 2007

"The future of OpenOffice.org--and how it can be yours," fisl 8.0, Porto Alegre, Brazil, April 2007

"Contributing to OpenOffice.org," Boteco 4Linux, São Paulo, Brazil, April 2007

"Re-Thinking Boundaries: Beyond the Office Suite," LinuxAsia 2007, New Delhi, India, January 2007

"Contributing to OpenOffice.org," IEG, Hyderabad, India, January 2007

"Working in a FOSS Project (and how to start one)," GNUnify 2007, Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies, Pune, India

"The Case for the OpenDocument Format,"SoftExpo, Seoul, Korea, November 2006

"The Social Logic of Freedom: OpenOffice.org, Open Source and Open Standards,' FSOSS, Toronto, Canada, October 2006

Panel on User Perspectives on OpenDocument Format (ODF), The Berkman Center, Boston, USA, October 2006

"Making It Work: How to Build a Successful Open Source Project," EuroOSCON, Brussels, Belgium, September 2006

"OpenOffice.org: Year 6," OOoCon 2006, Lyon, France, September 2006

"Monetizing OpenOffice.org," OOoCon 2006, Lyon, France, September 2006

"The Responsibility of Governments? Open Source, Open Standards," LinuxWorld Korea, Seoul, Koera, June 2006

Panel presentation on OpenOffice.org and OASIS OpenDocument format use in government, LinuxWorld Boston, April 2006

"The Migration to OpenOffice.org," LinuxForum 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2006

"OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument Format," keynote, the LinuxForum 2006 Conference, New Delhi, India, February 2006

"The Global Politics of Free Software/Open Source Licensing," part of the panel, "Intellectual Property and Its Discontents," which I organized; 2005 Modern Language Association Convention in Washington, DC, December 2005

"The Impact of OpenDocument and OpenOffice.org, Kansai Open Source Conference," Osaka, Japan, October 2005

"Why Open Source is the Answer," keynote, OSS Global Emerging Technology Executive Summit, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2005

"Is Open Software any good for Business? The Case of OpenOffice.org," keynote, Linux/Open Source Forum 2005, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2005

"Year 5: The State of OpenOffice.org," OOoCon 2005, Koper, Slovenia, September 2005

"Imagining an OpenOffice.org Foundation," BoF, OOoCon 2005, Koper, Slovenia, September 2005

"Bridging the Divide: OpenOffice.org and Open Source Community Development," FISL 2005, Porto Alegre, Brazil, June 2005

"Free Source, Free Communities?" the Open Source Forum, Moscow, Russia, April 2005

"Developing a working free community," Free and Open Source Days, Istanbul, Turkey, March 2005

"Community Development and Managed Collaboration," LinuxAsia 2005, New Delhi, India, February 2005

"Why Open Source Software is the Solution," XpoLinux, Monterrey, Mexico, November 2004

"Open Source Is the Future: What Does that Mean?" Kansai 2004 Free and Open Source Conference, Osaka, Japan

"OpenOffice.org: Year 4," OOoCo2004, Berlin, Germany, September 2004

"OpenOffice.org: Community, Code, Collaboration," a series of presentations and workshops at the ebusiness forum, Athens and Iraklion, Greece, April 2004

"Local Wealth: OpenOffice.org," keynote presentation at LinuxAsia 2004, New Delhi, India, February 2004

"The Open Source Desktop," panel presentation at SDForum's Open Source Summit, December 2003

"The Structure of a Revolution in Production: The Case of OpenOffice.org," Kansai Open Source Conference, Osaka, Japan, November 2003

"Enterprise Strategies and Open Source: The Case of OpenOffice.org," presented at OSCON 2003, Portland, Oregon, July 2003

"StarOffice/Open Office: Changing the Ecology of Software Creation and Dissemination," EGovOS Conference on Open Standards/Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and EU, George Washington University, Washington, DC, March 2003

"Where Do We Go from Here? The Future of OpenOffice.org," OOoCon: OpenOffice.org Conference, University of Hamburg, Germany, March 2003

Cultural Studies: Selected Conference Presentations

"Mark Twain's Narratives of Governmentality," International Conference on Narrative, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 6-9 April 2006

"The Erotic Tactics of the Paraliterary," Critical Symposium on Samuel R. Delany at the State University of New York at Buffalo, 23-24 March 2006

"Unhomely Pleasures: Dislocation in Twain's Works," Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, DC, December 2005

"Apostate Logic: Resisting Will," paper in the panel, "Theories of the Will in US Culture," chair and organizer, Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, December, 2004

"Women and Economics," Jack London Studies conference, Santa Rosa, May 2004

"Mobility, Desire, and the Naturalist Tramp," American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 2004; an expanded version of this paper was requested for publication in Dreiser Studies

"Memoir or Novel? Autobiography and Generic Indeterminacy," panel chair, Narrative, An International Conference, University of California, Berkeley, March 2003

"The Erotics of Government: Hysteria and Fin-de-Siècle Joan of Arc," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, March 2003

"Writing Outside the Law: Personal Accounts of Tramp Life," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Conference, George Mason University, April 2002

"Producing the Popular Work: Bohemianism in "Martin Eden,” Popular Culture Association Meeting, Toronto, March 2002

"Mimesis, Identity, Trauma in The Turn of the Screw," Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Kentucky, Louisville, February, 2002; an expanded version of the paper requested for publication by The Henry James Review

"Narratives of Desire, Disarticulations of Identity [in Samuel Delany’s Atlantis]," Modern Language Association 2000, Washington, D.C., December 2000

"Jack London and Josiah Flynt," Jack London Studies Conference, Santa Rosa, CA, October 2000

"Will and the Figure of the American Tramp," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference 2000, Yale University, April 2000

"Mark Twain and U.S. Foreign Policy," International House Conference on Mark Twain, U.C. Berkeley, October 1996

Cultural Criticism: Articles

"Like Nobody: Mimesis, Identity, Desire in The Turn of the Screw," accepted for contingent publication at the Henry James Review

"Doing a Man's Job: Anti-Imperialism and Mark Twain's Joan of Arc," work in progress

"Drift or Mastery": Tramping, Will, Desire,” work in progress