GNHLUG Major Event - Tim Burke, Director of Fedora - Tue 24 Jan

[Jeff Kinz]

GNHLUG requested that this info be passed on to BLU:

What : Open Source Development and Productization
Who  : Tim Burke, Director of Fedora Project & Kernel Development at Red
Hat
When : Tue, 24 Jan 2006, at 5:00 PM
Where: Walker Auditorium, Robert Frost Hall, SNHU

GNHLUG regulars, please note the time!

GNHLUG, NH IEEE/ACM, and SwANH are privileged to host a joint
presentation:  Tim Burke, Director of Kernel Development for Red Hat
Software, and Director of the Fedora Linux Project.  He will be speaking
on how Red Hat balances its role as community steward and purveyor of
enterprise products.  The event will take place at 5:00 PM, on Tuesday,
January 24th, 2006. It will be in the Walker Auditorium, in Robert Frost
Hall, at Southern New Hampshire University.

GETTING THERE

Campus Map: http://www.snhu.edu/212.asp

Robert Frost Hall is #2 on the map.

Directions: http://www.snhu.edu/209.asp

ABOUT THE PRESENTATION

Open source development is rapidly gaining momentum due to developer
interest as well as empowerment to end users. This presentation will
describe Red Hat's approach to balancing the interests of community,
customers, and business partners. We will see how open source projects
are integrated to form our distribution and how Red Hat fosters and
contributes to the community development process. This approach can
serve as a model to others who are trying to understand the intersection
of free open source software and business.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Tim Burke is the Director of Kernel Development at Red Hat, the world's
leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise. The Kernel
Development team is responsible for the core kernel portion of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. Burke is also the Director of the Fedora Project, an
open source project sponsored by Red Hat and supported by the Fedora
community.  In his role as Fedora Director, Tim leads both internal
and external community projects with the ultimate goal of product
incorporation.  Prior to becoming a manager, Tim earned an honest living
developing Linux high available cluster solutions and Unix kernel
technology. When not juggling bugs, features and schedules, he enjoys
running, rock climbing, bicycling, and paintball.

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