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

[Heather Brown]

Oh well. I did not work for PARSEC... I'm just a grad student looking to 
get involved with the ubuntu project in spare time. Cheers anyways,
Heather

On 08/15/2011 08:46 PM, David "Barahon" Willson wrote:
> Not presently, sorry.
>
> Did you ever work for PARSEC?
>
> /Sent via David's Droid X./
>
>
> -----Original message-----
>
>     *From: *Heather Brown <heatherbriannabrown at gmail.com>*
>     To: *clue at cluedenver.org*
>     Sent: *Tue, Aug 16, 2011 01:19:41 GMT+00:00*
>     Subject: *Re: [clue] Hear ye! Hear ye! Maddog talk on Aug 24
>
>     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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