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Date and Time
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Location
MIT Building E51, Room 315
Presenter
Jon "maddog" Hall - maddog li org
Summary
Maddog talks about his travels around the world visiting Linux users.
Abstract
For more than a decade Jon "maddog" Hall has been traveling around the world talking about Free and Open Source Software. He has experienced software users from the island of Fiji to the depths of the Amazon rainforest to the depths of far behind what was the iron and bamboo curtain all using FOSS. Come here the stories of what these people were doing with it, why they chose it and why the things they did would simply have been impossible to do with closed source, proprietary software. Liberal use of his many photographs taken over the years will be applied to the talk.
About Jon "maddog" Hall
Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International (www.li.org), a non-profit association of computer vendors who wish to support and promote the Linux Operating System. During his career in commercial computing which started in 1969, Mr. Hall has been a programmer, systems designer, systems administrator, product manager, technical marketing manager and educator. He has worked for such companies as Western Electric Corporation, Aetna Life and Casualty, Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, VA Linux Systems, and SGI.
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 met Linus Torvalds and correctly recognized the commercial importance of Linux and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
He has taught at Hartford State Technical College, Merrimack College and Daniel Webster College. He still likes talking to students over pizza and beer (the pizza can be optional).
Mr. Hall is the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles, many presentations and one book, "Linux for Dummies".
Mr. Hall serves on the boards of several companies, and several non-profit organizations, including the USENIX Association.
Mr. Hall has traveled the world speaking on the benefits of FOSS, and received his BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University (1973), and his MSCS from RPI in Troy, New York (1977).
In his spare time maddog is working on his retirement project: maddog's mansion for math, music, microcomputing and microbrewing
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