Bruce Perens @ BALUG (Feb 19th)

[Andrew Fife]

Howdy Folks:

Former Debian project leader Bruce Perens will be giving a talk titled
"Innovation Goes Public" at the Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) on
February 19th.  (See the abstract below)  

If you'd like to come, please RSVP: 
  
  RSVP at balug.org

If you haven't been to BALUG in a while, this a great opportunity to check
out what we're up to... and who knows you may just wind up eating dinner
with Bruce Perens at your table. 

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)

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 
 
  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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