[Bradford] [Fwd: [Wylug-announce] [UKUUG] OSSG & BCS - 20th October - 'The World of Ubuntu and Open Source']

[David Carpenter]

This may be of interest:

Matthew Barker, Corporate Services, Canonical Ltd
will give a talk for the Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) and the
BCS West Yorkshire Branch on Tuesday 20th October 2009 from 1830 hours
at The Met Hotel, King Street, Leeds, LS1 2HQ.

See below for more detail...

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From: Jane Morrison <office at ukuug.org>
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Subject: [Wylug-announce] [UKUUG] OSSG & BCS - 20th October - 'The World
of Ubuntu and Open	Source'
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:09:53 +0100

[Forwarded on from UKUUG list - odd words running together as they  
were in the original sent to me...]

The World of Ubuntu and Open Source – Leeds 20/10/09

   Matthew Barker, Corporate Services, Canonical Ltd
will give a talk for the Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) and the
BCS West Yorkshire Branch on Tuesday 20th October 2009 from 1830 hours
at The Met Hotel, King Street, Leeds, LS1 2HQ.

As open-source software has grown in sophistication, it has quickly
become a viable alternative to the major proprietary operating systems.
This presentation will give an update on the current capabilities of
open source along with an insight into future developments. Matthew
will discuss the issues and myths around its use in commercial and
public-sector organisations, whilst also providing pointers for
personal use.

The talk will include:

Overview of UbuntuUsage in the contexts of: Commercial-enterprise,  
Public
Sector, PersonalOpen Source ApplicationsOpen Source Capabilities The  
road map

Matthew Barker joined Canonical in 2006, taking responsibility for
the OEM channel in South Asia. Having successfully built partnerships
with hardware manufacturers like HCL, Wipro and eSys, he moved into the
Canonical Corporate Services Team in 2008 focussing on driving the
adoption of Ubuntu in enterprise. He has overseen deployments with
organisations like the NHS, York University and Handelsbanken. He has
experience across all the significant vertical markets and of “the how
and why” open source is being adopted.

Founded in late 2004, Canonical is the commercial sponsor of the
Ubuntu project with the mission to help individuals and organisations
take full advantage of open-source technologies by:

Delivering the world’s best free-software platformEnsuring its  
availability to
everyoneSupporting it with high-quality professional service
offeringsEncouraging the continued growth and development of the
free-software community

Canonical believes the open-source community creates better
software. The community enables an increase development capacity many
times over.

Ubuntu is a community-developed and supported project. Since its
launch in October 2004, Ubuntu has become one of the most highly
regarded Linux distributions with millions of users around the world.
Every six months the world’s best free and open-source software is
selected, tested, brought together, and made freely available on common
technology platforms.

To book a place to attend this event please email your name to
wybranchbcs at googlemail.com

Tea, Coffee, and Biscuits from 1745 hours

Please visit http://ossg.bcs.org/ for any further information


Cheers

Mark Elkins
Chair
OSSG
-- 
David Carpenter
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