Sorry for the double post, forgot to change the subject line. <br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Samir Faci</b> <<a href="mailto:samir.list@gmail.com">
samir.list@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Apr 5, 2007 4:12 PM<br>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Swapping Systems<br>To: <a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br><br></span><font style="font-weight: normal;" size="2">
Hi all,<br><br> I know this is late notice, but I just found out about this mailing list recently. We're having an Open Source/Free software conference this Friday and Saturday. If anyone from tclug has an interest in attending, please feel free to come by. There is a schedule of events on the main page. Please note that the event is free if you register online, there is a seperate registration for the IBM social and the hack-a-thon.
<br><br></font><br>--<br>Samir Faci<br>UIC LUG President<br><h2><font size="2">---- Blog extract from main website --
</font><br></h2><h2>Question to the world of Free and Open Source Software: What are my prospects when I graduate?</h2>
<br>
As many of you know by now, for the last few months here at UIC*, we -
the ACM* and g/LUG*,- have been eagerly working to put together a
conference to discus FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) as an
engine of innovation. The Flourish Conf. will take place next 6-7 of
April at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
<br>I am a self confessed gnu/Linux user, I love gnu/Linux, free
software and even open source - sorry RMS!. I am also a CS student at
the University of Illinois at Chicago, and curiously enough, even
though most of our curricula is done in Unix - we even have 2 RedHat
labs here, - it appears as if none of the big players within FLOSS ever
come to hire at UIC. Why is that Microsoft comes here semester after
semester snatching some of the most brilliant students on campus? Yet,
I have yet to see FLOSS big players to come out here looking for
people.
<br>
<br>
These has made me wonder: Is there a professional future in FLOSS? ....
<br>
... and I know I'm not alone in my wonders.
<br>
<br>To answer these questions, we have invited quite a few of really
smart people from different organizations: Google, IBM, Red Hat, and
the FSF, and we are going to have a a chance to hear about the
opportunities that FLOSS has to offer for our future. <br>
We will have two panels, a talk on GPL v3, a talk on Google's
contribution and use of FLOSS, among many other really interesting
talks, etc. We have also put together a series of technical talks on
FLOSS related technologies and topics, and a couple other really
interesting activities to give attendees a chance to meet and to be
met: Friday's Social mixer, and Saturday's Hack-a-Thon.
<br>This is not only going to be a great time for students around
Chicago, this is going to be a great chance for community members, and
companies to come together and explore how FLOSS is shaping up our
future! <br>
<br>
Come and join us!
<br>
<br>
Roberto C. Serrano
<br>
g/LUG @ UIC vice-president