Wellington's Brenda Wallace cruises to victory in predictions contest
Well-known Wellington geek Brenda Wallace cruised to victory for the second year running, in developer group Unlimited Potential’s contest for the best predictions for ICT in the year ahead.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/technology/android-boosted-ipad-dism...
A growing number of organisations, especially government agencies, will choose open-source software during 2010, for the wrong reasons, Wallace predicts. Referring to the Public Sector Remix open-source desktop trial, she says, “I suspect they’re doing it because Microsoft wouldn’t give them the price they wanted. I hope they’ll stay open-source, because it gives them freedom and control and breaks a monopoly.”
Libraries will begin renting e-books, she says. More tablet computers will enter the market, running “quasi-operating systems” such as Google’s Android rather than full-blown Linux, Apple or Windows; “but users won’t know or care about the OS; they’ll just use [the devices].”
The move to open government “will get creepy”, Wallace says, observers will “stalk” politicians, reporting their movements through Twitter and other real-time forums. “I’d like to see them do it to the lobbyists,” she says; “I’d like to know who they’re having lunch with.”
“We’ll have robots in our houses doing our bidding,” Wallace says, pointing to the Roomba vacuum cleaner as an early example.
Lastly, she predicts New Zealand, in technology and elsewhere, will continue to be a follower of overseas trends. “We think it’s not okay to do it until someone else does it first. Sadly, I think New Zealand’s going to keep saying that.”
announcing Casey Aroha Wallace
born 6:17am on 10th December 2009.
more photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/taniwha/sets/72157622988101788/
Brenda Wallace, blogger
Brenda Wallace, at the Domain Name Commission re-branding launch, runs a blog at coffee.geek.nz and is "the face" of the second level domain name .geek.nz www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-TV6grOQxM
.NZ is our home campaign
Yes, that's me in the .nz is our home campaign, trying to sell more .geek.nz domain name registrations to New Zealanders.
Watch the video at http://dnc.org.nz/content/campaign
Sunset in Island bay
Tapu-te-ranga island, wellington.
Hacking gadgets at town hall
Immediately following Richard Stallman, I spoke on opensource in gadgets (some of it not necesarily freesoftware, such as the BSD based iphones)
According to the organisers of Gadgets, Games & Geeks '08:
Wellington’s own Girl Geek supremo and open source advocate extraordinaire, the irrepressible Brenda co-founded the monthly developer picnic known as SuperHappyDevHouse. Describing herself as a “mobile technology wrangler”, Brenda develops open source code for mobile applications at Catalyst I.T.
Waves hit Tapu Te Ranga
This photo was published in the NZ Heritage Society's magazine.
Taken with a Nikon D50
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