Shmulik Shelakh of P&C called me an hour ago about the Linux confference day at IW2k. Apperently the "day" was chopped down from 7 to 3 hours, and the current direction is once more marshmello lectures instead of technical stuff. Shmulik agrees with me that it should have been more "hard core" but OTOH not commercially biased like the last Interbit Linux day a week ago was (I was there, and it was HORRIBLE), and therefore tapping us as the community is what he preffers. Lecturers already scheduled are Jacky Romano from SGI and someone from Sela Institute and they would love to have 2 of ours. For now I have Izar as a volunteer to talk about security, and Reuven Lerner about Web development, and I'm offering myself to talk about the linux culture, Free Software (Stallmanism, free speech in the software world, LUGs, our group). so here's the open call: the linux lectures will be on the 29th, probably 4pm to 7pm, they are asking for not-too-technical lectures, as the audience is mixed PHB/IT people (they are expecting the real programmers to be a minority). The sort of subjects wanted are security (or it's-ok-to-use-linux- it's-as-secure-as-other-unix-boxes), Free Software, and Hebrew in Linux. Please send me offers in person, so I can collect them and send him a summery offer tommorow. if you have lectures about more technical stuff, and I'm talking professional conference type lectures here, we are starting to collect ideas and matterial for an international conference we want to erect, with the kind help of maddog Hall and USENIX. hopefully it means also celebrities coming to lecture from abroad, and we hope to attract an international, USENIX-level professional audience. TIA, Ira, IGLU. -- Ira Abramov ; Penguinophile ; www.linux.org.il "I am not convinced that they can write solid stable software. Proprietary software is already hobbled by it's secretive cathedral nature, but Microsoft seems to have a corner on incompetent programming as well." -- Chris DiBona from the introduction. (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
