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

[Heather Brown]

Hi all, I'm new to the group and want to attend the meetings but I live 
in Ft Collins. Is there a way to follow along through skype or EVO?

Cheers,
Heather

On 08/15/2011 01:31 PM, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> 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.
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