Geek culture

I'm so fond of people who can live for their passion, don't ask themselves to many questions and keep their mind in the same direction, to the goal of their life. I've always been very interesting by this kind of passionate people : artists who spend their time drawing alone, passionated business men who found successful or completely crazy companies, and, of course, geeks.

Geeks and hackers are just a passionate community cause of their capacity to forget the world around them, the survey boundaries (except drink coffee and bier ;), the real social life and concentrate them on their passions : computers, games, programming and all.

That's why I've decided to work on geek culture during this year, for my master report. I haven't found a lot of books on it (except the excellent one of Pekka Himanen, Linus Torvalds and Manuel Castells about The Hacker Ethic) but I've already a lot of ideas to begin to work.

Mozilla24

Last saturday I've been to the mozilla24 event in Paris, at the Ecole des Télécommunications. I've seen the info three days earlier reading my Netvibes feeds.

The journey was just amazing. We were connected with members of the opensource family in Japan and Thailand. In Paris there were Tristan Nitot, Mozilla Europe CEO, François Bancilhon, the Chief Executive Officer of Mandriva, Charles Schulz, who work for OpenOffice.org as a lead of Native-Language Confederation and Pierre Baudoin, president of Wikimedia France. You can see the list of all the participants here.

Andrei took some pictures :



They've talked about progresses and hopes of the opensource movement. GNU/Linux could be a great chance for poor countries to receive access to the Internet and improve their capacities being connected to the world.

I've particularly appreciate Tristan Nitot and François Bancilhon speak for the optimism and lucidity of their ideas. A lot of things have been said during this event and I was very enthusiastic of all the generosity who was there.

Thanks Mozilla for all the stuff we bring back at home :)