When: January 18, 2006 7:00PM (6:30 for Q&A)
Topic: Free and Open Source Software: Reaching for the Stars
Moderator: Jon "maddog" Hall - maddog li org
Location:  MIT Building E51 Room 315

Maddog talks about his travels around the world visiting Linux users.
For more than a decade Jon "maddog" Hall has been traveling around
the world talking about Free and Open Source Software. He has
experienced software users from the island of Fiji to the depths of the
Amazon rainforest to the depths of far behind what was the iron and
bamboo curtain all using FOSS. Come here the stories of what these
people were doing with it, why they chose it and why the things they
did would simply have been impossible to do with closed source,
proprietary software. Liberal use of his many photographs taken over
the years will be applied to the talk. 

Additionally, we will have a visitor from Kuwait who is forming a Linux
user group in Kuwait. Husain Al-Bustan is in Boston on business and is
able to attend. 

For more information, directions and parking please refer to the main
BLU site: http://www.blu.org. 

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