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1998 Atlanta Linux Showcase
Fundraiser Dinner
- When: Friday October 23, 1998 at 8:00PM in the 15th Floor Theater.
- Cost: $35.00 minimum donation per person.
- Worthy Causes: Linux International Developer Grant Fund, Free Software Foundation.
- Menu:
- Baby lettuce with cucumbers, carrots and tomatoes served with raspberry vinaigrette
- Roasted prime rib of beef au jus with beefeater sauce
- Oven-roasted garlic potatoes, asparagus spears, baby carrots, rolls
- Double chocolate cake, cheesecake with strawberry topping
- Coffee and iced tea
- Vegetarian entree available upon request
Guest Speaker: Alan Cox, State of the Kernel Update
Alan will give a brief update on recent developments in the Linux kernel.Guest Speaker: Peter H. Salus, Trapped in the Bazaar
Abstract: From the earliest days after UNIX escaped from central New Jersey (in October 1973) it was fixed, maimed, battered, and augmented by its users. Despite the valiant efforts of AT&T, UNIX International, OSF, X/Open, and now The Open Group and SCO, UNIX has grown up in the bazaar. So, too, Linux. The growth of UNIX/Linux as a function of users in the bazaar will be my focus.About the speaker: Peter H. Salus holds a B.S. (Chemistry), an M.A. (Germanic Languages), and a Ph.D. (Linguistics), all from New York University. After 20 years as an academic (including stints as a chairman, associate dean, and dean), he went to IBM Research as ``visiting faculty.'' From there he went into computer user groups, spending a half-dozen years at the USENIX Association and the Sun User Group. He has been Vice President of the Free Software Foundation and is currently the Director of The Tcl/Tk Consortium.
Over the past six years, he has been an independent consultant and author, producing A Quarter Century of UNIX (Addison-Wesley 1994) and Casting the Net (A-W 1995) and innumerable columns in networking and computer periodicals. He is Editor in Chief of the Handbook of Programming Languages (Macmillan). He has recently joined MIDS as Editorial Director.
Peter runs Solaris on his SPARC 5 and Red Hat 5.1 on his Hitachi laptop.
Register for the Dinner
1998 Atlanta Linux Showcase dinner tickets can be purchased from the on-line registration system when you register. If you have already registered for the showcase, you can use your Confirmation ID to purchase a dinner ticket A limited number of tickets will also be available at the registration counter.