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