A final note, please RSVP to pia at linux.org.au if you are attending, as we are organising some catering for the event.
Cheers, Pia On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 08:36 +1100, Pia Smith wrote: > Hi all, > > After the success of our first Open Source Forum last year, Linux > Australia decided to continue with the Forums. The Open Source Forums > take current topical issues and invite a variety of speakers from > different point of views to put forward their ideas. This is extremely > valuable for attendees as they are able to see a cross section of > different ideas and be in a better position to make an educated decision > on the issue. > > The next Open Source Forum will be on "Linux on the Desktop". We've > invited 4 commercially supported Linux distribution companies to give a > brief talk on what makes them relevant, what their differentiators are > in this space, where they see the market, and a success story or two to > illustrate. There will also be a generic Linux desktop speaker from a > company who uses all of these desktop distributions and has practical > experience if each. > > Date: 3rd March > Place: UTS Sydney Room 4.10, Level 4, Building 2, Broadway > Provided: Light lunch and refreshments > > Agenda: > 12:00 - Introductions - Pia Smith (Linux Australia) > 12:10 - Industry perspectives from 4 commercial Linux vendors: > * Red Hat - Dean Samuels > * Novell - Greg Kieser > * Sun - Laurie Wong > * Canonical - Jeff Waugh > 13:30 - Break for short lunch > 14:00 - An overview of Linux on the Desktop - Mark Englaro (Si2) > 14:30 - Panel discussion > 15:00 - Close > > Thanks all! I'll put details up on the website within a day or two at > http://linux.org.au/projects/ under Open Source Forums. > > Pia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
