<p>I received this email notice from the Ubuntu-UK mailing list and thought it might interest some KLUGGERS.<br>It's a talk about GNU/Linux on mobile phones and will be held in London on 9th April. I enjoyed the recent MIRO (<a href="http://www.getmiro.com">www.getmiro.com</a>) talk so will probably go to this one too.<br>
<br>Anyone else interested?<br><br>Colin<br></p> <br> -------- Original Message --------<br> From: - Tue Apr 1 12:45:44 2008<br> <br> <br> <br> UKUUG 'free' Evening talk<br> <br> 'OpenMoko (GNU/Linux on the mobile phone)' - speaker: Ole Tange<br>
<br> Wednesday 9th April, 2008 - Talk starts at: 6:30 p.m. (ends approx. 8:30<br> p.m.)<br> <br> Venue: Cruciform Lecture theatre 2,<br> UCL, Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT<br> <br> There is no need to book a place - just turn up.<br>
<br> see UKUUG web site for information:<br> <br> <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/openmoko/">http://www.ukuug.org/events/openmoko/</a><br> <br> Abstract<br> <br> OpenMoko is the GNU/Linux distribution that runs on the free phone Neo<br>
Freerunner from FIC. It is completely Free Software. Being able to<br> completely control a cell phone gives new posibillities that people<br> only dreamed of.<br> <br> Have you ever had a mobile phone where you have been<br>
annoyed by some of the functionality and thought: "If only I had the<br> source code I could have fixed this annoying thing"? Then you are not<br> alone. The phone Neo Freerunner from FIC runs a completely free<br>
operating system. Because it is free it is possible to try out completely<br> new ideas - even ideas that the phone companies make no money from.<br> <br> The presentation will be about the possibilities and how you can take<br>
part in this revolution.<br> <br> About the speaker:<br> <br> Ole Tange has worked as Hostmaster for .dk, as a security consultant,<br> as network admin, as site reliablility engineer, and is now working as<br> developer.<br>
<br> He has worked with UNIX since 1991, GNU/Linux since 1992,<br> and in 1996 he deleted his Microsoft Windows partition.<br> <br> He has done lots of presentations on security, Free Software, and IT<br> political<br> issues (such as software patents) - both for the general public and to<br>
polticians. He is best know as the person behind Parallel, the<br> patented webshop and wordprocessor and Remindmail.<br> <br> He sees a completely Free phone as the most disrupting that has happened<br> since<br> the introduction of GNU/Linux.<br>
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