For most of June, I was a visiting researcher in the Informatics division of the Swedish Business School, Örebro University.  Thanks to the group’s rigorous, precise daily schedule of lunch times and coffee breaks (fika), I had the structure I needed to be productive!

I gave a talk on my open source deployment research in San Francisco (talk title:  “Open Source Deployment at the City and County of San Francisco:  From Cost Reduction to Rapid Innovation”).  Open Source (or öppen kod, as they say) attracted good interest, particularly with the eGovernment angle.  I also served as an external examiner on Ella Kolkowska‘s licentiate thesis, which focused on a values-based approach to IS security.  As Örebro, along with many other European universities, makes the transition to a more American-style system of rewards based on publications, strategies for cracking the right journals were another hot topic.

I’ll miss having the intellectual stimulation of Karin, Ella, Fredrik, Johan P, Johan A, Kai, Nena, Hannu, and the entire group on the rest of our sabbatical world tour.  Thanks Örebro!