Matt Asay to deliver keynote address

Community Capitalism: The Art of Corporate Involvement in Open Source Communities.

JA-SIG is very pleased to announce that Matt Asay, manager for sales and business development activities in the Americas for Alfresco, will be the Wednesday keynote speaker at JA-SIG's upcoming Denver conference, "JA-SIG: With Altitude"', Sunday through Wednesday, 24-27 June 2007, at the Renaissance Denver Hotel.

Abstract:

As enterprises, government organizations, and educational institutions increasingly turn to open source for lower costs, improved innovation, and better software, they are also discovering that a project's community largely determines the relative value of each of these. In other words, the stronger a community, the better the software and the less it costs.

But community is hard to come by in any product - open source or proprietary source. This presentation will identify the most successful mechanism commercial open source vendors and community open source projects have found to improve the depth and breadth of their communities, and how end users can derive significant benefits from participating in and contributing to relevant open source communities.

Matt's keynote address is scheduled for Wednesday, June 27, at 11:30am.

BIO:

Matt Asay has been involved with open source since 1998, and is one of the industry's leading open source business strategists. Asay currently manages sales and business development activities in the Americas for Alfresco, the open source leader in Enterprise Content Management.

Prior to Alfresco, Asay co-founded Novell(r)'s Linux Business Office in 2002 and was an early agitator and architect for the company's shift to open source. In 2003 Asay founded the Open Source Business Conference, now owned by IDG's InfoWorld, the industry's premier open source strategy event, and has served as an Entreprenuer-in-Residence for Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, focusing on open source investment opportunities. Before Novell, Asay was General Manager at Lineo(r), an embedded Linux software startup, where he ran Lineo's Network & Communications business.

Asay earned his Juris Doctorate degree at Stanford Law School, spending two of his three years studying software licensing and innovation, and specifically the GNU General Public License, under Professor Larry Lessig. He also holds Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK) and Brigham Young University, respectively.

Asay is a board member for OSI, and serves on the advisory boards of various open source companies, including SugarCRM, JasperSoft, MuleSource, Loopfuse, Specifix, Radview, Bungee Labs, and Intoto.