Date: Jul 07/10/15 5:46 PM Subject: Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - Federico's 2015 OSCON Preview From: Jerry Feldman When: July 15, 2015 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A) Topic: Federico's 2015 OSCON Preview Moderators: Federico Lucifredi Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 335 ### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed. ### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will be ### 2-way during construction. Take a right onto Ames St and another ### right onto Amherst St. Summary Federico's annual talk Abstract Federico Lucifredi previews his OSCON presentation Bio Federico Lucifredi is the maintainer of the man suite, the primary documentation-delivery tool under Linux, a graduate of Boston College and Harvard University, and the Ubuntu Advantage Product Manager at Canonical. As a software engineer-turned-manager at the Novell corporation, Federico was part of the SUSE Linux team for five years, overseeing the update stack of a 150 million dollar maintenance business. Previously, Federico has been a CIO and a network software architect at technology and embedded Linux startups, and he has spent two years teaching in Boston University's graduate and undergraduate programs, while simultaneously consulting for MIT. He is a frequent speaker at user group and conference events, notably the Linux Foundation's LinuxCon, LinuxWorld, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, and the IMPlanet conferences, where he was a panelist representing the Jabber community. Federico is a recognized expert in computing performance issues, and consults pro-bono with Standard and Poor's clients interested in Free/Open Source Software technical and strategic issues. He participated in the GPL v3 drafting process in the large-corporation panel. See http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-may for attachments For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site http://www.blu.org Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51 parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St. After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting location at The Cambridge Brewing Company http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/ -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 ______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/announce