[LUAU] OPEN SOURCE PIZZA - TONIGHT

R. Scott Belford scott at hosef.org
Tue Oct 18 15:13:19 PDT 2005


"Peak Oil, FOSS, Hawaii & You"


A discussion of how Free and Open Source Software will foster innovation 
and economic growth, maybe even competitive advantages, in the face of 
rising fuel prices.

About the Speaker

Jim Thompson has been noodling around the UNIX world for far too long  a 
time.  He knows he started with BSD Unix Release 4.1a on a Vax  11/780 
in 1980.  He still thinks "echo 'This is not a pipe." | cat -  > 
/dev/tty' is funny. He submitted his first patch to a Free  Software 
project in 1985 for a port of GNU Emacs to a Convex vector 
supercomputer.   Jim refuses to divulge his qualifications and may,  in 
fact, have none at all.  He lives in a fortified condo near Kailua  with 
his wife Jamie and son, Hunter Speed.  His email address is  jim at netgate.com

Officially:

Jim Thompson was Director of Product Development at Vivato. Prior to 
joining Vivato, Jim Thompson founded  and served as the chief technology 
officer at Musenki, a developer of  secure, open-source wireless 
networking products targeted at original  equipment manufacturers, 
wireless Internet service providers, and  public access (hot spot) 
providers. Prior to that, Mr. Thompson was  the chief technology officer 
and vice president of engineering at  Wayport, where he designed and 
built Everywire, a series of products  created to bring Internet access 
into public spaces. Prior to leaving  Wayport, Jim architected and 
championed Wayport's move to a 100  percent wireless network. Jim 
Thompson was also founder and chief  technology officer of Smallworks, 
an Internet security technology  supplier to Cisco, Sterling Commerce 
(acquired by Computer  Associates), Quadritek (acquired by Lucent), 
Competitive Automation  (acquired by @Home), Wells Fargo, Cadence and 
Monsanto; Director of  Engineering for Tadpole Technology; and Network 
Operations Center Manager for Sun Microsystems.



Time: 5:45 to 8:30
Location: Marine Sciences Auditorium, The University of Hawaii

If you want Pizza, $7

For directions, go to

http://www.hawaii.edu/campusmap/

and click on Marine Science [E4]

Look forward to seeing you there.







-- 
R. Scott Belford
Founder/Executive Director
The Hawai`i Open Source Education Foundation
PO Box 392
Kailua, HI 96734
808.689.6518 phone/fax
scott at hosef.org



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