Eric Allman at BALUG 2008-04-15!, and other BALUG News
Contents: * Eric Allman at BALUG 2008-04-15! * LugRadio Live USA 2008 in San Francisco * Additional upcoming BALUG meeting dates and speakers * Contacts, etc.
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For our 2008-04-15 meeting we are proud to present:
Eric Allman, on: Email Evolving
Internet email is in a process of rapid evolution. Besides the obvious things, such as spam and malware, many other technology trends are having an impact. These include mobile devices, new messaging technologies, social networking, changing legal requirements, the rise of Software as a Service and Service Oriented Architectures, and an unstable underpinning of the network itself. Not surprisingly, many of these same forces do or will affect other parts of the network. This talk will describe these evolutionary pressures, point out some of the unexpected consequences of our attempts to adapt to these pressures, and make some dire predictions for the future. Generous time will be allotted to Q&A.
Eric Allman[1] created and authored sendmail[2], spearheads sendmail.org[3], and is Chief Science Officer[4] and co-founder of Sendmail, Inc.[5] Sendmail remains the most popular mail transfer agent (MTA) on the Internet. Eric co-authored the draft specification for DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)[6]. Among his work and contributions, Eric was also Chief Programmer on the INGRES Relational Database Management System and an early contributor to Berkeley UNIX, authoring syslog, tset, the troff -me macros, and trek in addition to sendmail.
If you intend to come, please RSVP to: rsvp@balug.org Why RSVP? Well, we probably wouldn't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan settings/food/staffing and help ensure that we're able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room.
Subscribe to our (low volume) Announce list[7] to be sure and be notified of our upcoming events.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Allman 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail 3. http://www.sendmail.org/ 4. http://www.sendmail.com/sm/company/management/ 5. http://www.sendmail.com/ 6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dkim 7. http://www.new.balug.org/#Lists
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LugRadio Live USA 2008[8] at The Metreon in San Francisco, April 12th & 13th, 2008
LugRadio Live USA 2008 brings San Francisco the unique atmosphere of LugRadio Live UK, an event that has developed a strong reputation for providing a range of topics about free software, Open Source, digital rights, technology and more, a compelling list of speakers, exhibitors and birds of a feather sessions, and wrapping it all in a unique, fun, loose, social and inclusive event, which is often described as combining the atmosphere of a rock concert and a computer conference.
8. http://www.lugradio.org/live/USA2008/
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Additional upcoming BALUG meeting dates[9] and speakers (see our web page[9] for more details):
2008-05-20 Jeremy Allison[10] 2008-06-17 Andrew Morton[11] 2008-07-15 Mike Linksvayer, CTO, Creative Commons[12] 2008-08-19 (speaker confirmation pending) 2008-09-16 Ian Murdock, founder of Debian[13]
Subscribe to our (quite low volume) Announce list[7] to be sure and be notified of our upcoming events.
7. http://www.new.balug.org/#Lists 9. http://www.new.balug.org/#Meetings%20(upcoming) 10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Allison 11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Morton_%28computer_programmer%29 12. http://creativecommons.org/ 13. http://www.debian.org/
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