WHAT: NBLUG General Meeting
TOPIC: Can the Embedded Linux Consortium help
Embedded Linux Dominate the Universe?
SPEAKERS: Murry Shohat of the Embedded Linux Consortium
Rick Lehrbaum of LinuxDevices.com
WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol
WHEN: July 9th, 2002 @ 7:30PM
This is our normal monthly meeting at the normal scheduled time and place.
Yes, that's less than a week away and some of you just came to a meeting
last night.
How did LinuxDevices.com and the Embedded Linux Consortium come
to be?
What plethora of devices have come (and gone) in the
embedded Linux world, and what's expected in the future?
And embedded Linux's "Holy Grail": a unified technical
specification.
Murry Shohat helped organized the Embedded Linux
Consortium and serves as Executive Director, trade show
manager, and janitor. Murry has enjoyed working as both
a technology journalist covering Silicon Valley and as a
marketing consultant, helping young and mature firms
introduce new projects. His background is concentrated in
embedded computing
Rick Lehrbaum is the founder and executive editor of the
LinuxDevices.com "embedded Linux portal," which is widely
associated as the foremost resource for Embedded Linux
related news and information. Rick has worked in the
field of embedded systems since 1979. He co-founded
Ampro Computers, founded the PC/104 Consortium, and was
instrumental in creating the ELC.
OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS:
August 13th we're having Augie talk about database
administration with PostgresQL and MySQL
September 10th Larry Rosen will talk about Open Source and
law.
October 8th, Mark Linford will talk about PHP
(we're likely to have an InstallFest sometime in September,
too; once it's figured out we'll post an announcement)
--
Eric Eisenhart <eric(a)nblug.org>
Co-Founder and President Pro Tempore
North Bay Linux Users' Group
http://nblug.org/
IRC: freiheit(a)irc.nblug.org
AIM: falsch freiheit
ICQ: 48217244
Greetings all,
This is just a quick announcement to let you know that the meeting for
tomorrow night, July 2nd with Hans Reiser is full. We seem to have had a
late rush to RSVP and we've filled up the space available at O'Reilly and
Associates.
If you did not RSVP, we appologize for this. Hans will be speaking at LUGOD
(Linux Users Group of Davis) on July 15. You can find more info about this
meeting at their site: http://www.lugod.org/.
-Dustin
--
Founder & President Emeritus
The North Bay Linux Users' Group
http://www.nblug.org/
dustin(a)nblug.org
