[Wylug-admin] Potential speaker...

[Jim Jackson]

This guy emailed the list to offer a talk. Maybe Tom you could contact him
and take him on his offer...

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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:21:09 +0100
From: Robert Burrell Donkin <robertburrelldonkin at gmail.com>
To: WYLUG Announce list <wylug-announce at wylug.org.uk>
Cc: Jim Jackson <jj at franjam.org.uk>, Christopher Brown <snecklifter at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Wylug-announce] WYLUG Tonight - Mon 14th April.....

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Christopher Brown
<snecklifter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  I'm assuming there is no speaker or anything, what with no wylug-announce
> > and nothing on the web.
>
>  Ben's threatened to give a talk on intercal. He might have been joking.

i've been threatening to come along for a few months now but things
haven't really worked out so far this year...

as well as seeing the current state of the FOSS world in yorkshire,
i'm keen to extend the FOSS OpenPGP WOT. (my code signing key is
deeply embedded in the apache WOT. even if you don't have a public key
for me to cross-sign, privately signing my key will allow you to
verify apache releases and link into many FOSS WOTs.)

if you're short of speakers then i'd to happy to step up sometime.
most talks i'd be confortable giving would probably be of more
interest to FOSS developers and contributors (rather than just users)
and would be somewhat (possibly obliquely) apache (software foundation
not httpd project) related. (i'm towards the OS end of the FOSS
spectrum.) here's a list off the top of my head: apache incubator,
pretty much any java-related project at apache (pick one: hadoop is so
hot right now ;-), open source licensing (theory and practice),
Mail2.0, open software auditing, open source verses open development,
how apache works (organisational structure), open source release
management, OpenGPG. if any of these topics might be of interest and
you're short of a speaker then let me know.

- robert