Tao Student – A Personal Site for Gary Ardito

I just finished the last set of updates to the Tao Institute site including some audio on the Master Paolillo page. It is a good start. We will be adding much more over time especially in the student section.

I came across this today at OSBC and it looks real interesting.. As a backdrop, I am something of a collector of languages and development schemes. This one seems to have real legs, built on top of Pyhon..
http://www.djangoproject.com/
I will dive in and post more later
-Gary

Three more sessions plus a keynote today…
The next session was on Open Source and the Channel. This was a session I was really looking forward to. Lets say it really hit home. The panel in this case included Anthony Gold from Unisys and Anthony Roby from Accenture. The crux of this was that [...]

As promised, here at OSBC..
First impression, this conference has grown dramatically in audience and tenor since the first one a few years ago when the main questions were “What really is open source?” and “What is the GPL?” Overall, today’s audience is composed of people with far more experience with Open Source (both [...]

I love Saturdays!
For me Saturdays include Training, Friends, Food, and usually Folly. Saturdays are physically satisfying, soul cultivating and sometimes a bit decadent. It is rare that you can find all of these in the same set of activities but Saturdays provide it for me.. so what makes up this barrage [...]

About a year and a half ago, following some challenging life changes, I moved from Atlanta up to the mountains of North Carolina…to Asheville. Why Asheville? I have blogged here before about studying martial arts and taoist philosophy. Prior to my move, my primary teacher (Sifu) had moved to a mountain [...]

I am heading to San Fran today to attend OSBC 2007. I am looking forward to it. I am always looking to refine the CxO message around Linux and Open Source and this show often provides the conversation to do just that.
I will blog during the conference

I make no secret on this blog of my Taoist beliefs and study of Chinese Internal Martial Arts….well, I just launched a site sharing information about my Sifu (teacher) and our school, The Tao Institute, in Asheville, NC. It is a beginning effort with more dynamic content including podcasts and video to come.
For [...]

I think that we are lowering our standards all over the place and accepting.. no cheering mediocrity. What promoted this rant… well baseball. I have blogged before about my passion for baseball but I have not touched on the incredible high regard I hold major league players..the skill it takes to play major [...]

Ok, I admit it. This is a step I did not see coming. I think it is great i can run Vista on my MacBook using parallels. I think it is great I can run Vista, and OpenSuse in parallels thereby having almost immediate access to the three platforms that interest me [...]

As someone who has worked on literally hundreds of enterprise (corporate) Identity Management solutions…some mundane and some very complex, I can see the synergy.. I can visualize how users can mix into their world. I see companies looking to include their customers and partners in their business. The overall wave towards information [...]

Just in case you missed it.. I listened to a real interesting Podcast this morning off of IT Conversations.
It is an interview with Caterina Fake who was one of the founders of Flickr. She talks about how Flickr came to be.. almost an accidental by product of what sounds like a Second Life type [...]

Mothers day is a great day and those who truly deserve it the most get rewarded. It is impossible to write enough about the contributions of mothers every day of the year. The only words that come to mind are “Unappreciated” and “Underestimated”. I think these words apply on so [...]

To all you mothers out there and even any mothers to be… Happy Mothers day.
There is a reason all athletes on TV say Hi Mom. If we look deep enough, most of us will admit we are what we are because of the influence of our mothers. I am no different. My [...]

“Spiritual Growth happens at a subtle level.. not gross levels” This is one point that was reinforced for me today during a Chi Kung class. Life is a journey with growth coming at unexpected times and during unexpected surroundings.  Sometimes it is thrust upon you and if you are ready to [...]

I have to confess that there is nothing that quite stirs my soul like the game of baseball. A day spent at the ballpark is unlike any other. This is true whether it is a major league ballpark and a game shared with my father, a minor league ballpark in my home [...]

As I continue to follow the rise and flow of user enablement in the growing collaborative web, I am excited by the progress being made by standards like OpenID and projects like Bandit.  The Internet Identity Workshops have been a great place to discuss the issues of user centric identity and how it will become [...]

The Internet Identity Workshop effort has created a recommended media group with its first recommendation : THE DIGITAL PERSON by Solove.

Also.. more on Open Spaces and how the techniques are blossoming in conferences..probably coming to one you are attending soon.. Great ideas..need to think more…