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October 04, 2009 – Comments (3) | RELATED TICKERS: IBM , BBY , GKNT

On September 17th a panel discussion was held in NYC at the Hudson Hotel led by Chris Anderson, WIRED, Editor in Chief, Karim R. Lakhani, assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School, co-editor of Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2005) and co-founder of the MIT-based Open Source research community and web portal, and Jon Sobel, President, Group Media, SourceForge *

 

Panel Discussion Topics:

I.    The Triumph of Open: Speaker Intros

II.   The Triumph of Open: Open Source

III.  The Triumph of Open: Advertising on the New Internet

IV. The Triumph of Open: Geek Culture

 

SourceForge photostream of this event on Flickr.

* Jon Sobel's last day at SourceForge was eight days after this panel discussion was held, September 25th. 

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#1) On October 04, 2009 at 8:03 PM, gnulaw (57.46) wrote:

>>* Jon Sobel's last day at SourceForge was eight days after this panel discussion was held, September 25th. 

Sobel's announcement of his departure was announced on August 31st . 

One has to wonder whether this was disclosed at this event and also one is compelled to wonder why this event was not the subject of, at least, a press release given exposure of Open Source to "Madison Avenue" was the intent of this panel.  This event does not appear, under 'Events' on SourceForge nor under Media??? 

 

What was Jon Sobel thinking? What was Ross Turk thinking (as host)?  

 

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#2) On November 15, 2009 at 7:21 AM, gnulaw (57.46) wrote:

NOTE: Geeknet has taken down the link pointing to their feature 

Unscrambling the Puzzle of Digital Marketing On The Modern Web

where Jonathan Sobel was a featured speaker and promoted as SourceForge's Group President, Media. Jonathan Sobel left the Company on September 25th, eight days after said Meeting was held. Significantly this was not disclosed to the participants of this meeting and was kept on the Geeknet site through all of October putting Geeknet Management and its Board of Directors in alleged violation of, at least, Section 406 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and SEC Rule 10b-5...at least someone is paying attention to our warnings.

 

References:

SourceForge (LNUX) Website Promoting Jon Sobel as Current Group President Media as Shares Continue to Slide below 50-100-200 MA

http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=284339&t=01005232244381733972

Group President of Media for SourceForge and Former General Counsel for Yahoo to Join Tesla Motors Executive Team

http://www.topix.com/com/sourceforge/2009/09/tesla-motors-hires-veteran-technology-executive-jon-sobel-as-general-counsel-and-secretary

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#3) On November 15, 2009 at 7:31 AM, gnulaw (57.46) wrote:

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It is back up. It is still there under http://www.geek.net/nycpanel and also directly off the main Geeknet home page http://www.geek.net, as follows:

"The Triumph of Open" (right-side) > "Learn More" > "Unscrambling the Puzzle of Digital Marketing On The Modern Web"

=>Alleged continuing consistent patterns of violations of Section 406 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, SEC Rule 10b-5...

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