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

Heather Brown heatherbriannabrown at gmail.com
Mon Aug 15 21:18:46 MDT 2011


Thanks for the tip! I'll check them out.

Cheers,
Heather

On 08/15/2011 09:20 PM, David L. Willson wrote:
> 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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