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On May 6th, Tim O'Reilly will speak to the Silicon Valley Linux Users
Group at 7pm.  He is the CEO of O'Reilly & Associates, and the leader
of last month's Open Source Summit.  He will speak on the significance
of open source software: its historical impact on developers and the
Internet, and what the future impact on the corporation might be.

Everyone is invited to the meeting.

Tim O'Reilly was the moderator of the historic Open Source Summit
where Linus Torvalds (Linux), Larry Wall (Perl), Brian Behlendorf
(Apache), Paul Vixie (Bind, Cron), Eric Raymond (Fetchmail), Tom
Paquin (Mozilla), Eric Allman (Sendmail), John Ousterhout (Tcl/Tk),
Guido van Rossum (Python), Phil Zimmerman (PGP) and others met to
confirm advantages of open source development process and agree to
cooperate in spreading the word.  For more info see
http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/press/opensource.html And also
http://www.eklektix.com/lwn/980416/a/guido-oss.html

Tim is founder and president of O'Reilly & Associates, publisher of
books on the X Window System, Linux, Unix, Perl, Java, Python and
similar subjects.  Tim has had a hand in writing or editing many of
the books published by O'Reilly & Associates.

This meeting will be held at the Gateway Conference Center, Building
J, Cisco Systems. The address of the conference center is
 255 W. Tasman Drive
 San Jose, CA 95134 

Maps and directions are at http://www.svlug.org/meetings.shtml.
Our main web page is http:///www.svlug.org

We hope to see you there.  

Afterwards we'll all go out to eat.

Coming up events include...
May 16th All Day Linux-Fest at UMax (11am-4pm)
June 3 at 7pm...Larry Wall on Perl
July 1 at 7pm...Mitch Wyle on Vim and Ben Wing on XEmacs

To get announcements about the group regularly please go to 
http://www.svlug.org/mdstuff/lists.shtml


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Sam Ockman                    |   Penguin Comptuing         
(415) 722-2851                |   A Different Kind of Linux Company
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