<html><head><style type="text/css">body {word-wrap: break-word; background-color:#ffffff;}</style></head><body><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px">Not presently, sorry.<br><br>Did you ever work for PARSEC?<br><br><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px"><i><font color="#333333">Sent via David's Droid X.</font></i></span></font></div><br><br>-----Original message-----<br><blockquote style="; border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px"><b>From: </b>Heather Brown <heatherbriannabrown@gmail.com><b><br>To: </b>clue@cluedenver.org<b><br>Sent: </b>Tue, Aug 16, 2011 01:19:41 GMT+00:00<b><br>Subject: </b>Re: [clue] Hear ye! Hear ye! Maddog talk on Aug 24<br><br></div>Hi all, I'm new to the group and want to attend the meetings but I live <br>in Ft Collins. Is there a way to follow along through skype or EVO?<br><br>Cheers,<br>Heather<br><br>On 08/15/2011 01:31 PM, Dennis J Perkins wrote:<br>> Jon "Maddog" Hall will grace us with his presence on August 24. The talk will be at 6:30 PM.<br>><br>><br>> Topic: The United States of America: Fifty Small Countries<br>> 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<br>> 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<br>> these companies are in different areas than the one you live in, so creates the "good jobs" in other places.<br>> 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.<br>> This talk will outline how this happened, and how to regain control of your software, creating high tech jobs in your own state.<br>><br>> Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International (<a href="www.li.org">www.li.org</a>), an association of computer users who wish to support and promote the Linux<br>> Operating System. During his career in commercial computing which started in 1969, Mr. Hall has been a programmer, systems designer, systems administrator,<br>> product manager, technical marketing manager, author and educator.<br>> He has worked for such companies as Western Electric Corporation, Aetna Life and Casualty, Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, VA Linux Systems,<br>> and SGI. He currently works as an independent consultant, and is currently involved with bringing environmentally friendly computing to emerging marketplaces<br>> through Project Cau� (<a href="www.projectcaua.org">www.projectcaua.org</a>).<br>> 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<br>> met Linus Torvalds and correctly recognized the commercial importance of Linux and Free and Open Source Software.<br>> 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<br>> "maddog".<br>> Mr. Hall is the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles, many presentations and one book, "Linux for Dummies".<br>> 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<br>> Free and Open Source Software.<br>> Mr. Hall serves on the boards of several companies, and several non-profit organizations.<br>> 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,<br>> and his MSCS from RPI in Troy, New York.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> clue mailing list: clue@cluedenver.org<br>> For information, account preferences, or to unsubscribe see:<br>> <a href="http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue">http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>clue mailing list: clue@cluedenver.org<br>For information, account preferences, or to unsubscribe see:<br><a href="http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue">http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue</a><br></blockquote></body></html>