[SC.LUG] January Meeting

[Adam Huffman]

The next meeting of ManLUG will take place at 2pm on January 21st at
the Lascelles Williams room of the Kilburn Building at the University of
Manchester, as usual.

We have two invited speakers - Jono Bacon and David Gilbert.

On the front line: convincing people the inconvincible - Jono Bacon

Linux advocacy is a funny old game. Although many of us want to bring
new people over to free software and Open source, there is precious
little advice about doing it effectively.

Jono Bacon (www.jonobacon.org) has been advocate of Linux and free
software since 1998 and currently works as a full time Open Source
evangelist and consultant at the UK government funded OpenAdvantage
(www.openadvantage.org). As a journalist, Jono has written extensively
about advocacy, and has authored columns and articles, and provides
consultancy for community building and Open Source development. Jono
is also one of the four large gents in the popular LUGRadio
(www.lugradio.org) podcast.

In this talk, Jono will share some techniques and pointers about
effectively advocating Open Source. Riddled with anecdotes and
stories, the presentation provides a good grounding for those of you
who want to help do you bit to push Open Source and free software
forward to more people.


David Gilbert, a ManLUG regular and previous speaker, will be talking
about coreutils.

An early version of his presentation is available here:

http://www.treblig.org/daveG/coreutils.odp


Best Wishes,
Adam