O'Reilly's Open Source Town meeting

[Jamie <love@cptech.org>]

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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:30:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sara Winge <sara@oreilly.com>
To: lwn@eklektix.com
Subject: Open Source Town Meeting Hosted by O'Reilly

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 20, 1998
CONTACT: Sara Winge, 707/829-0515 x285, sara@oreilly.com, 
More information at http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html

	   O'REILLY HOSTS OPEN SOURCE TOWN MEETING
  "Open Source is Open for Business" is Theme of Public Forum 

SEBASTOPOL, CA--The burgeoning open source (TM) software community will
gather at the first Open Source Town Meeting on Friday, August 21 from
5:00-6:30 pm at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA. O'Reilly &
Associates is sponsoring the Town Meeting, which caps off their Open
Source Developer Day. More information and registration is at
http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html. Admission is $10. 
O'Reilly will donate all proceeds from the Open Source Town Meeting 
to the Free Software Foundation.

The Open Source Town Meeting is for software developers, corporate IS
managers, entrepreneurs, and others who want to take advantage of the
open source development and business models. A panel discussion on the
topic "Open Source is Open for Business" will kick off the Town
Meeting. Moderator Tim O'Reilly, CEO of O'Reilly & Associates, will be
joined by key open source leaders including:
* Larry Wall, creator of Perl and Senior Developer, O'Reilly &
Associates
* James Barry, HTTP and WebSphere product manager, IBM
* Jim Hamerley, Vice President, Client Products Division, Netscape
Communications Corp.
* David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo, which uses FreeBSD, Apache, and
other open source tools
* Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU project
* Bob Young, President, Red Hat Software
* Brian Behlendorf, a founder of the Apache group and vice president of
Web Applications at C2Net Software, Inc.
* John Ousterhout, CEO, Scriptics Corp. and creator of the Tcl
scripting language
* Jordan Hubbard, a founder of the FreeBSD project
* Eric Raymond, independent developer; open source evangelist; author
of the influential paper, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."

The Open Source Town Meeting will include ample time for audience
comment and questions. O'Reilly's partners in the event will have
informational displays on their open source-related efforts. 
Partners include:
Apache Group
C2Net Software, Inc.
Crynwr
Linux International
Linux Journal
Penguin Computing
Red Hat Software, Inc.
Samba
Scriptics Corporation
Sendmail, Inc. 
Silicon Valley Linux User Group
Songline Studios
USENIX
Whistle Communications

The Open Source Town Meeting is a followup to the private Open Source
Summit that O'Reilly hosted for a small group of key open source
developers in April 1998. Another outgrowth of that meeting is Open
Source Developer Day (http://opensource.oreilly.com/osdd), a daylong
workshop for those who want to learn how to develop and market open
source software, which takes place from 9:00am-4:30pm the day of the
Town Meeting.

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"Open Source" is a Certification Mark of Software in the Public
Interest.