Hi Folks: Ian Murdock will be speaking at BALUG this coming Tuesday (2008-09-16). Ian founded Debian in 1993 and served as project lead through 1996. Currently Ian is the Vice President of Developer and Community Marketing at Sun Microsystems and previously was the CTO of the Linux Foundation. (Full bio links below)

============================ VERY important changes... ============================

1)Change in venue We are NOT meeting at the Four Seas Restaurant because they have a conflict. However, Songbird (http://www.songbird.com/) has kindly offer the use of their office in SOMA for the meeting. (Address below)

2)Change in food & cost We will be ordering pizza & soda for this meeting. The cost will be $10, meat and veggie-friendly options will be available and we promise it won't be Pizza Hut or Domino's.

3)RSVPs REQUIRED Due to the fact that Songbird can host about 75 attendees (we may well get a full house) _AND_ that BALUG volunteers are personally paying for pizza upfront, we are *requiring* an RSVP for this event. So, if you'd like to join us *please* RSVP now (or at least as soon as you can!) to:

rsvp@balug.org

Meeting Details...

6:30 P.M. September 16th, 2008

Songbird's Corporate Office 585 Howard St. (near 2nd St.) San Francisco, CA 94105-3032 Map w/ Parking Garages: http://tinyurl.com/5zbwuu

Cost: The meetings are always free, but pizza & soda is $10

Links to Ian Murdock's full bios:

Personal: http://ianmurdock.com/about/

Corporate: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/bio.jsp?name=Ian%20Murdock

More information, additional maps, other upcoming meetings, etc.: http://www.balug.org/