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<!-- Fall 2003 -->
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<eventitem date="2003-12-01" time="7:00 PM"
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room="TBA" title="Jon 'maddog' Hall: Free and Open Source: Its uses in Business and Education">
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<short> Free and Open Source software has been around for a long
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time, even longer then shrink-wrapped code.</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>Free and Open Source software has been around for a long time, even
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longer then shrink-wrapped code. It has a long and noble history in the annals
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of education. Even more than ever, due to the drop of hardware prices and the
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increase of worldwide communications, Free and Open Source can open new
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avenues of teaching and doing research, not only in computer science, but in
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other university fields as well.</p>
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<p>Learn how Linux as an operating system can
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run on anything from a PDA to a supercomputer, and how Linux is reducing the
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cost of computing dramatically as the fastest growing operating system in the
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world. Learn how other Free and Open Source projects, such as office suites,
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audio and video editing and playing software, relational databases, etc. are
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created and are freely available.</p>
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<h3>Speaker's Biography</h3>
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<p>Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of <a href="http://www.li.org/">Linux International</a>,
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a non-profit association of computer vendors who wish to support and promote
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the Linux Operating System. During his career which spans over thirty years,
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Mr. Hall has been a programmer, systems designer, systems administrator,
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product manager, technical marketing manager and educator. He has
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worked for such companies as Western Electric Corporation, Aetna Life and
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Casualty, Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, VA Linux Systems,
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and is currently funded by SGI.</p>
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<p>He has taught at Hartford State Technical College, Merrimack College and
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Daniel Webster College. He still likes talking to students over pizza and beer
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(the pizza can be optional).</p>
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<p>Mr. Hall is the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles, many
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presentations and one book, "Linux for Dummies".</p>
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<p>Mr. Hall serves on the boards of several companies, and several non-profit
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organizations, including the USENIX Association.</p>
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<p>Mr. Hall has traveled the world speaking on the benefits of Open Source
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Software, and received his BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel
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University, and his MSCS from RPI in Troy, New York.</p>
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<p>In his spare time maddog is working on his retirement project:</p>
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<center>maddog's monastery for microcomputing and microbrewing</center>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2003-11-05" time="4:30 PM - 8:30 PM"
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room="Grad House Pub (Green Room)" title="CS Pints With Profs">
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<short>Come have a pint with your favourite CS profs!</short>
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