Princeton Linux Users Group

Announcement

The Princeton Linux Users Group sponsors lecture by John Hall!

Jon Hall, an expert on the Linux computer operating system, will discuss its impact on computer use in government, business and education at 5 p.m. Monday, March 22, in 6 Friend Center.

Hall is the executive director of Linux International, a nonprofit association of computer vendors who support the Linux computer operating system and promote its use.

The specifics for the talk:
Monday March 22
5:00 pm (cookies and coffee start at 4:30)
Friend 006

Title: Linux and Free and Open Source (FOSS) in Government, Business and Education

Abstract: Linux and Free and Open Source (FOSS) has gone in the last four years from being a "Hacker's Toy" to being recognized as a solid answer for the "enterprise". Yet this answer will once again change the way that people purchase software answers, and in turn places changes on Government, Business and Education. This talk will outline some of those changes, and what it means for current and future students.

Bio:
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 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.

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 Open Source Software, and received his BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University, and his MSCS from RPI in Troy, New York.

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