Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:32:03 -0400 From: R. A. Hettinga Subject: DCSB: Marcel Meth; fileTRUST, Distributed Storage and Digital Commerce The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Marcel Meth, Founder, fileTRUST FleetBoston Financial fileTRUST, Distributed Storage and Digital Commerce Tuesday, November 6th, 2001 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA Marcel Meth will talk about his experience at being an entrepreneur within a large traditional bank, FleetBoston. He'll describe the trials and tribulations that were involved in developing an entirely new product, fileTRUST (sm) a secure web service that allows any web user to requisition online storage and collaborate with others. Marcel will also talk about how he dealt with some of the social barriers in the bank and the organizational methodolgy he used to build the product in 9 months. Marcel Meth has been a member of the Internet Strategy Team at FleetBoston Financial since January 1999. During this period he has been involved in looking at new technologies and how they can be leveraged in banking. He is the founder of fileTRUST (sm), a secure web service that allows any web user to requisition online storage and collaborate with others. Prior to FleetBoston, Marcel spent 8 years at Lotus Development Corporation (now IBM) where he was an architect on many facets of Smart Suite and started an effort to deploy a small business portal. Prior to Lotus, Marcel was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs for 8 years. Much of his work focused on CAD for Silicon and Printed Wiring Boards. He was also responsible for the early releases of the OPEN LOOK user interface. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, November 6th, 2001, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $37.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, A/V hardware if necessary, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club has relaxed its dress code, which is now "business casual", meaning no sneakers or jeans. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your meal if the Club finds you in violation of what's left of its dress code. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, November 3rd, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will be returned. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $37.50. Please include your e-mail address so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (we've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: December Chuck Wade January TBA February TBA As you can see, :-), we are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, are a principal in digital commerce, and would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Committee, care of Robert Hettinga, . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to . We look forward to seeing you there! ----------------- R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe from this list, send a letter to: Majordomo@reservoir.com In the body of the message, write: unsubscribe dcsb-announce Or, to subscribe, write: subscribe dcsb-announce If you have questions, write to me at Owner-DCSB@reservoir.com