[clue] Hear ye! Hear ye! Maddog talk on Aug 24

[Dennis J Perkins]

Jon "Maddog" Hall will grace us with his presence on August 24.  The talk will be at 6:30 PM.


Topic: The United States of America: Fifty Small Countries
Most computer users, businesses and governments have lost control of their software. They have little or no real control over how their software works, what 
systems they may put it on, or how long the software will be supported. These issues are now dictated by the companies that produce the software, and often 
these companies are in different areas than the one you live in, so creates the "good jobs" in other places.
Therefore both money and expertise are exported out of your area, instead of developing and keeping the jobs and expertise inside of your own area.
This talk will outline how this happened, and how to regain control of your software, creating high tech jobs in your own state.

Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International (www.li.org), an association of computer users who wish to support and promote the Linux 
Operating System. During his career in commercial computing which started in 1969, Mr. Hall has been a programmer, systems designer, systems administrator, 
product manager, technical marketing manager, author 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 SGI. He currently works as an independent consultant, and is currently involved with bringing environmentally friendly computing to emerging marketplaces 
through Project Cau� (www.projectcaua.org).
Mr Hall has worked on many systems, both proprietary and open, having concentrated on Unix systems since 1980 and Linux systems since 1994, when he first 
met Linus Torvalds and correctly recognized the commercial importance of Linux and Free and Open Source Software.
He has taught at Hartford State Technical College (HSTC), Merrimack College and Daniel Webster College. While at HSTC his students gave him the nickname of 
"maddog".
Mr. Hall is the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles, many presentations and one book, "Linux for Dummies".
Mr. Hall has consulted with the governments of China, Malaysia and Brasil as well as the United Nations and many local and state governments on the use of 
Free and Open Source Software.
Mr. Hall serves on the boards of several companies, and several non-profit organizations.
Mr. Hall has traveled the world speaking on the benefits of Open Source Software having received his BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University, 
and his MSCS from RPI in Troy, New York.