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

David L. Willson DLWillson at TheGeek.NU
Mon Aug 15 20:20:55 MDT 2011


Check out CoLoCo. They may be more active up north, and I'm fairly certain they're active on IRC, and they have a mailing list, but it's usually pretty quiet, except around version launches.

http://coloco.ubuntu-rocks.org/

David L. Willson
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Heather Brown" <heatherbriannabrown at gmail.com>
> To: clue at cluedenver.org
> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 8:01:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [clue] Hear ye! Hear ye!  Maddog talk on Aug 24
> 
> 
> 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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