added maddog events so that he can get a hotel room

events.xml

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 <!-- Winter 2018 -->
 
+<eventitem date="2018-03-13" time="6:00pm" room="MC Comfy"
+  title="Discussion with maddog">
+  <short>
+    <p>
+      We'll be having a discussion session with maddog, an out-of-town speaker
+      from the LPI. Food will be provided, as well as good company. Come out!
+    </p>
+   </short>
+   <abstract>
+     <p>
+       Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International, an
+       association of computer users who wish to support and promote the Linux
+       Operating System.  During his career in commercial computing which
+       started in 1969 (almost a half-century ago), Mr. Hall has been a
+       programmer, systems designer, systems administrator, product manager,
+       technical marketing manager, educator, and consultant.
+       <br/>
+       He has worked for such companies as Western Electric Corporation, Aetna
+       Life and Casualty, Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, VA
+       Linux Systems, SGI and Futura Networks (Campus Party).
+       <br/>
+       Mr. Hall is currently the CEO of OptDyn, Inc (www.optdyn.com) which
+       creates the Subutai(tm) suite of Open Source Peer-to-Peer Cloud
+       computing tools.  He also works as an independent consultant, and is
+       involved with bringing environmentally friendly computing to emerging
+       marketplaces, as well as working on performance and educational issues
+       with Free and Open Source Software via the Linaro Association.  He is
+       the Chairman Emeritus of wit.com
+       <br/>
+       Mr Hall has worked on many systems, both proprietary and open, having
+       concentrated on Unix systems since 1980 and Linux systems since 1994
+       (almost a quarter century ago), when he first met Linus Torvalds and
+       correctly recognized the commercial importance of Linux and Free and
+       Open Source Software.
+       <br/>
+       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).
+       <br/>
+       Mr. Hall is the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles,
+       many presentations and one book, "Linux for Dummies".  He currently
+       writes a monthly article for Linux Pro Magazine and occasionally blogs
+       for them on their web site.
+       <br/>
+       Mr. Hall has consulted with the governments of China, Malaysia and
+       Brazil as well as the United Nations and many local and state
+       governments on the use of Free and Open Source Software.
+       <br/>
+       Mr. Hall has served and serves on the boards of several companies,
+       universities and several non-profit organizations.  He is currently
+       very active with the University of Sao Paulo's Centro Interdisciplinar
+       Em Tecnologias Interativas (CITI), acting as a member of their advisory
+       board.  Mr. Hall is also the Board Chair of the Linux Professional
+       Institute, the world's premier Open Source Certification organization,
+       and is the senior advisor and co-founder of Caninos Loucos, bringing
+       inexpensive, locally designed and manufactured single board computers
+       to Brazil.  He is also the President of Project Caua.
+       <br/>
+       Mr. Hall has traveled the world (over 100 countries) speaking on the
+       benefits of Free and Open Source Software, and received his BS in
+       Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University (1973), and his MSCS
+       from RPI in Troy, New York (1977).
+     </p>
+   </abstract>
+</eventitem>
+
+<eventitem date="2018-03-12" time="6:00pm" room="MC Comfy"
+  title="Programming for the 22nd Century">
+  <short>
+    <p>
+      We are bringing an out-of-town speaker, John "maddog" Hall, to come speak!
+      Come to this event, where he will be talking about changes in programming
+      paradigms since the invention of C, and the discussion event tomorrow.
+    </p>
+   </short>
+   <abstract>
+     <p>
+       Abstract: Many things have changed since the early days of programming,
+       but many programs are written as if they were for the machines of the 20th
+       century which had small memories, no cache, single core CPUs, small
+       address spaces.  Even the definition of "performance" has changed.  This
+       talk will investigate some of these issues and hopefully lead people to
+       better programming.
+     </p>
+   </abstract>
+</eventitem>
+
 <eventitem date="2018-02-07" time="5:30pm" room="QNC 1502"
   title="Technical Interview Prep">
   <short>