[NBLUG] General Meeting Announcement

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