[Watford] OSSG Event 11/05/10 -- Luton

Thu Apr 29 12:38:49 UTC 2010

FYI

Monday, a couple of weeks time.

This is close enough that we should be able to get there.
Car sharing might be an idea, I can offer 3 seats (or 4 if you don't mind being cosy).

Who else will go ?

Drat, I have just realised that I am working in Reading that week;
I should still be able to make it but I might not be reliable for giving
a lift.

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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:28:23 +0100
From: Jane Morrison <office at ukuug.org>
Subject: [UKUUG] UKUUG - OSSG Event 11/05/10
To: members at ukuug.org

"Question Time” on Open Source 

Luton 11/05/10

In the style of the BBC program “Question Time”, join us for an
evening of Q & A on Open Source software.

The Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) joins forces with BCS Bedford – for an 
entertaining evening debating this hot topic. 

Is Linux the answer to everything? 

Can Open Source software provide a real viable alternative in the business
world?

A panel of “experts” detailed below will be available to answer your
questions and adjudicating events will be the OSSG Chair, Mark Elkins.

If you have a question please submit this before the event to  
mark_elkins at bcs.org although, just like the real program, we will take some 
questions on the night.

Click on this link to Register for this event

http://ossg.bcs.org

Time – 7pm for 7:30pm start

Location – Room J110, First Floor, Vicarage Street Campus, Vicarage
Street, University of Bedfordshire, Luton LU1 3JU. 

Use Mall (Arndale) shopping centre car park (free from 6pm)

Directions – http://www.beds.ac.uk/contactus/directions

Contact details: Mark Elkins via mark_elkins at bcs.org

Panelists

Jane Curry a consultant with 29 years experience in
operating systems, communications and systems management. Highly
experienced in many business sectors with an IT skill-set ranging from
microcomputers to mainframes. 

An IBM Certified Tivoli Consultant and Instructor dedicated to providing high 
quality systems and network management consultancy with a commitment to 
education and training.

More recently, Jane has been working with Open Source systems
management offerings such as Zenoss, OpenNMS and Nagios and was
recently awarded the title of “Zenoss Master” by Zenoss Inc. 

A professional member of the British Computer Society well versed in
educating others regarding technical roles in business computing. Jane
is also very interested in promoting IT as a career, especially for
women. To this end, she is a Science Engineering Technology (SET)
Ambassador and has acted as mentor to a female postgraduate student in
the IT department at Oxford Brookes University.

Peter Dawes-Huish, CEO for LinuxIT, has been part of CRN’s A-List for two 
years in a row and is a member of the Society of Industry Leaders (SIL). In 
2006 LinuxIT was chosen ‘IT Services Supplier of the Year’ at the Computing 
Awards for Excellence. 

LinuxIT helps companies throughout Europe by delivering IT consulting,
technology and support services through the integration of Open Source
solutions.

Michael Kay develops the Saxon XSLT and XQuery
processor for manipulating XML; he is the founder of Saxonica, which
develops and licenses both the open source and commercial versions of
the product. Both versions have a large user base, including many
high-throughput and high-profile applications especially in publishing
and financial services. 

As an open source project there are probably two distinctive features worth 
noting about Saxon: the fact that the software (200K lines of code) is almost 
entirely developed by one person, and the successful use of a dual-licensing 
business model.

Before starting the development of Saxon ten years ago, Michael was an
ICL Fellow, having spent nearly 25 years with ICL as a software product
designer and in a variety of other systems architecture and senior
engineering roles. As well as developing Saxon, he is editor of the W3C
XSLT language specification, and has written the definitive book on the
language. He is a frequent conference speaker, and his contributions to
the XML community were recognized in 2005 by the award of the XML Cup.

Richard Taylor is a System Architect and Technology
Analyst at QinetiQ, he has a background in software systems research
with a particular interest in the fields of Systems of Systems
Architectures and Open Source Software.

As well as doing research work he has hands on implementation experience as an 
Integration Architect for multi-site, multi-tier, fully redundant enterprise 
information systems for high transaction rate Internet applications. Richard 
has been advising the MOD and central government on Open Source issues for
more than a decade. He advised the OGC on the formulation of the eGif
standards, was co-author of the Defence Scientific Advisory Council
report into Open Source Software and part of the QinetiQ team that
helped to develop the UK government policy on use of Open Source
Software. 

His main area of research has focused on achieving desired
emergent properties in large scale Systems of Systems through novel
architectural assessment approaches that can be applied in the public
sector acquisition cycle. He has worked with organisations to exploit
an appreciation of the emergent properties of complex Systems of
Systems to achieve enterprise goals through the practical application
of IS policy. He is also a developer of Open Source software including
contributions to a number of projects and he helps to run the PyConUK
and EuroPython Python programming language conferences.
http://ossg.bcs.org/

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