Hi Folks:
This is a reminder that Bruce Perens will be speaking at BALUG Tonight. (See the abstract below) So, if you'd like to come, its time to get your RSVP in:
RSVP@balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and they ensure that we're able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room.
Upcoming 2008 speakers include:
Feb 19th - Bruce Perens March 25th (New Date) - Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu/Canonical) April 15th - Eric Allman (Sendmail) May 20th - Jeremy Allison (Samba) June 17th - Andrew Morton (Linux kernel) July 15th - Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons) Aug 19th - TBD Sept 16th - Ian Murdock (Debian & Sun)
So why not signup for BALUG's extremely low volume announce list:
http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org
Meeting Details...
6:30pm February 19th, 2008 (TONIGHT!)
Four Seas Restaurant 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 PARKING: http://www.portsmouthsquaregarage.com/
Cost:
The meetings are always free, but dinner is $13
ABSTRACT: "Innovation Goes Public"
Presented by Bruce Perens, co-founder of the Open Source initiative insoftware.
Open Source provides much of the software infrastructure for many of the world's largest companies and organizations: Merrill Lynch, Google, Pixar, Amazon, the City of New York, and probably you - although you might not know it. Innovative products like Linux, Firefox, and Apache are the market-leaders in their sectors, but there are tens of thousands of Open Source programs, used for just about everything. But the economics of Open Source are non-intuitive: how can you make money by giving software away? Why did IBM de-emphasize AIX, after spending Billions, in favor of Linux, the product of a loose collaboration of programmers that it can never control? How can the world's greatest city trust Open Source to help manage its jails?
Bruce Perens will show how Open Source is often the most effective strategy for creating and utilizing new innovation. He will explain the economics of Open Source and how it works for profit-generating companies. His talk will be clear to beginners yet informative even for Open Source pros.
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