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AspenCon 2025 Keynote

Written\ Created \ Syndicated by Taofeek Folami

I was extremely happy to be invited to deliver the opening keynote at AspenCon 2025…speaking to a room full of people excited to be a part of open source development in libraries is always a great time. I was feeling reflective when I was asked to come up with a topic, and decided to look back on my forays into open source and open hardware products in libraries with two projects that I created.

I called the talk Collaborative Creation and Collective Good; or a List of My Public Failures and it seemed to go over well with the audience. Here’s a video of the talk;

Here’s a poorly-formatted transcript as well.

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