From: Turker Gulum (turker.gulum@tubitak.gov.tr)
Date: Thu 04 Mar 2004 - 09:05:14 EST
Linux Kullanicilari Dernegi Seminer Takvimi
http://seminer.linux.org.tr/
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13 Mart 2004 Cumartesi
Yer : TUBITAK Feza Gursey Salonu, Kavaklidere - Ankara
Saat : 14.30 - 17.30
* Seminer dili Ingilizce'dir.
Title : Linux as Free and Open Source Software (FOSS): It's Past, Present
and Future
Speaker : Jon "Maddog" Hall
Abstract: Linux, and its larger set of software called "Free and Open
Source" is changing the way we produce and use software. This talk will
briefly cover the beginnings of FOSS (which is longer ago than most think),
cover where GNU/Linux is today, and look towards the future where FOSS is
taking the world economy.
Bio:
Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International
(www.li.org), a non-profit association of computer vendors who wish to
support and promote the Linux Operating System. During his career which
spans over thirty years, Mr. Hall has been a programmer, systems
designer, systems administrator, product manager, technical marketing
manager and educator. He has worked for such companies as Western
Electric Corporation, Aetna Life and Casualty, Bell Laboratories,
Digital Equipment Corporation, VA Linux Systems, and is currently funded
by SGI.
He has taught at Hartford State Technical College, Merrimack College and
Daniel Webster College. He still likes talking to students over pizza
and beer (the pizza can be optional).
Mr. Hall is the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles, many
presentations and one book, "Linux for Dummies".
Mr. Hall serves on the boards of several companies, and several
non-profit organizations, including the USENIX Association.
Mr. Hall has traveled the world speaking on the benefits of Open Source
Software, and received his BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel
University, and his MSCS from RPI in Troy, New York.
In his spare time maddog is working on his retirement project:
maddog's monastery for microcomputing and microbrewing
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