On Monday Oct 24th I gave a talk at the Seneca’s 4th Free Software and Open Source Symposium. The event overall was quite neat, and successful. I was only able to stay for the morning, but was quite impressed by the turnout and general enthusiasm amongst the people gathered. The talk I gave was about Openflows, and our approach to the Open Source world.

Fernando Duran wrote up a great summary of the entire day as well as some generous comments about me:

This was my favorite non-technical presentation. Jesse Hirsh is the president and founder of Openflows, and open source consultancy firm in Toronto. By the way, the logo of Openflows looks like the one for Ubuntu, only this time there’s a fourth guy falling back (what!? I’m the one to get stuck with the Windows machine? Aaaah!).

Jesse is a very enthusiastic and vibrant speaker of strong convictions; he tells things bluntly as he sees them. He talked was about his personal life journey from a political activist living in his parents house to a business man (still political).