Hey all -
Today is Software Freedom Day! It is a day designed to celebrate
Free/Open Source Software. We are joining in the national celebration
with a Virginia Tech-specific celebration, sponsored by Sun.
There will be four speakers, each talking about open source software
projects here on campus and in the local Blacksburg area.
The celebration will present a forum for open source software and will
be held in Torg 3100 at 5pm. We invite everyone in the Virginia Tech
community to come out and enjoy free pizza and drinks, hear about open
source software, and enter to win some free prizes.
Date: September 20th, 2008
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Torgersen 3100
The schedule will be something like:
-John Edstrom - Sun presentation
-Jonathan Turner - Minnow programming language
-Pizza break/software distribution
-Dr. Godmar Back - LibX
-Mike Taczak (and/or Naren) - Funambol
-Raffle give-away
Ten O’Reilly books will be given away - 2 of each of the following titles:
sed & awk. 2ED
Learning the vi and ViM Editor
Linux in a Nutshell, 5ED
Managing Projects with GNU Make
Mastering Regular Expressions
There will also be software give-aways from Sun and Canonical (the
sponsor company of Ubuntu).
This event is being organized by the Association for Computing
Machinery, Association for Women in Computing, Virginia Tech
Linux/Unix User’s Group, and Free Culture. To learn more about
Software Freedom Day, check out http://softwarefreedomday.org/.