Randal Schwartz, noted author and Perl wizard, will be talking Sunday Feb 24th, 2-4pm on Oregon's Computer Crime Law at the offices of Eugene Free Community Network (43 West Broadway, Eugene, http://www.efn.org)
Randal is the author of: * Learning Perl, 3rd Edition * Learning Perl on Win32 Systems * Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs With Perl * Object Oriented Perl * Programming Perl (uncredited in most recent edition) He is also, thanks to Oregon's Computer Crime law, a convicted felon. Come hear him talk about the case and trial, about what is wrong with the law as written, and why all technology professionals in Oregon should be concerned. Randal L. Schwartz is a two-decade veteran of the software industry, skilled in software design, system administration, security, technical writing, and training. He writes regular columns for a number of magazines and is a frequent contributor to the Perl newsgroups, and has moderated the comp.lang.perl.announce newsgroup since its inception. He is one of the few people in the world qualified to use P+++++ in his 'geekcode'. He is also a founding board member of the Perl Mongers (perl.org), the worldwide Perl grassroots advocacy organization. Since 1985, Randal has owned and operated Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. For more info on Randal and the case: http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ http://www.lightlink.com/spacenka/fors/ http://www.rahul.net/jeffrey/ovs/ This talk brought to you by Eugene Unix Gnu Linux User Group (http://www.euglug.org) Please forward to anyone who might be interested. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com
