CLUE DTC : October 7th - Special Meeting with Bruce Perens

[CLUE President]

Hello - 

My name is Jeffery Cann.  I'm the president of CLUE - the LUG for Denver metro 
area.  (http://clue.denver.co.us/)

I apologize for the spam-like nature of this announcement, but we're having a 
special meeting one week from this Tuesday.  I retrieved your emails from 
your LUGs (CLUE maintains a list of all Colorado LUGs).  Please pass this 
along to your members.

We hope to see you at the CLUE meeting!

Regards,
Jeff

------- Meeting Announcement ----
Greetings.

I'm giddy to announce that Bruce Perens, noted Linux and Open Source leader, 
contributor, and advocate will give the a presentation entitled "The Future 
of GNU/Linux and Free Software".  He describes it:

"I will talk about some of the issues confronting us (Linux Users) - software 
patents, trusted systems, competitive and technical issues, SCO (if you 
haven't already heard too much), etc."

For those unfamiliar with Bruce Perens, here's his short bio from his web site 
(http://www.perens.com/)

Bruce Perens is a leader in the Free Software and Open Source community. He is 
creator of the Open Source Definition, the manifesto of the Open Source 
movement in Software. He's founder or co-founder of the Open Source 
Initiative, The Linux Standard Base, Software in the Public Interest, and 
No-Code International. Perens released his first Free Software program, 
Electric Fence, in 1987. He is creator of Busybox, which has spawned its own 
development community and is part of most commercial devices using embedded 
Linux. 

Perens is series editor of the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series line of books 
with Prentice Hall PTR publishers. The books sell well in retail stores, even 
though their texts are released under an Open Source license. Perens is 
Senior Research Scientist for Open Source with George Washington University's 
Cyber Security Policy Research Institute. Through his own research 
organization, Perens has a $50,000/year grant to work 1/4 time on the patent 
policy issues of standards organizations. He is an elected director of 
Software in the Public Interest, Inc.

Perens previously spent two years with HP as Senior Global Strategist for 
Linux and Open Source, and was president of Linux Capital Group, a venture 
fund that specialized in Linux. 

Perens spent 20 years in the computer graphic animation industry, 12 of them 
at Pixar Animation Studios. He has a credit on the films A Bug's Life and Toy 
Story II. 

*** PLEASE NOTE ***
We have moved the date of our October DTC meeting to accommodate his travel 
schedule to October 7th.  In addition, we will not have a KISS session, so 
the meeting will start at 7 pm.

Date:  October 7, 2003
Time:  7:00 pm
Location:  Radisson Hotel (I-225 and Parker Road)
Info:  http://clue.denver.co.us/

Please spread this announcement around to your friends and colleagues.  If you 
only make one CLUE meeting in the next 5 years, this is the one to attend!

Feel free to contact me directly for questions.
Jeff
-- 
Colorado Linux Users and Enthusiasts (CLUE)
http://cluedenver.org/
Jeffery Cann, President