Open Source and Me in Norway
A few months ago I was asked to come to Norway to give a keynote on openness and libraries. Now I’ve learned that at least one library in Norway is on the right road 
Thomas Brevik, librarian at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy (in Bergen) selected Koha for his library. He selected Libriotech to help him out with this project : Libriotech is a company recently created by Marcus Enger, who starts on his own for now. I had been in Norway in February to meet up with Magnus, who was thinking about starting a business with Koha there at the time, and to also meet several librarians interested in Koha. We talked about our experience with Koha in France, and about the ways in which BibLibre might help Koha flourish in Norway.
This from BibLibre. Very cool.
As for me - I will be in Norway in November to sing Thomas’ praises and talk about openness in libraries.
July 27th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Eh, I’ll be there too. See you there and don’t forget your coat, and gloves, and hat, etc…
July 27th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
hehe - yeah - wish I was coming another time of year, but at least I get to come
July 27th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Got room in your luggage for me?
July 27th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Hmmm - well considering how tall you are - I doubt it
July 28th, 2009 at 4:49 am
If we manage to get more Norwegian libraries on board the Open Source train, I’m sure we will ba able to have more conferences about it in the future, and perhaps even in the summertime! It could be nice to have one in summer in Northern Norway, with the midnight sun… I’m looking tremendously forward to November, though, I hope and think it will be an important event for FLOSS in Norwegian libraries!