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3Allow me to diverge on a personal note. I am so proud of my niece, Stormy Peters. She is one of the keynote speakers at the Open Source Convention O’Reiley Network that will be held in Portland, Oregon in July this year. Nathan Torkington>

OSCON Keynotes highlights her keynote with the following comments:

Stormy Peters works for HP in my own town, Fort Collins. She’s talking directly to the theme of the conference, the way that open source and proprietary software often coexists rather than it being an all-or-nothing situation. Miguel’s an interesting aspect of this, come to think of it, with his work bringing the best of Microsoft to open source. She works for a company that’s making a big investment in Linux, and she’ll be presenting the financial story behind why adopting open source is a good idea. These arguments have actually been pretty hard to find.