[wellylug] Simon Phipps meeting in Wellington

[Rob Giltrap]

I met Simon when he was speaking at the Sydney OpenSolaris User Group. 
He's a very 'non-conformist' person and spoke in detail about the 
various open source licenses, very interesting and gave me a whole new 
insight into the topic. He's definitely NOT a marketing type but a real 
technologist and technology theorist. I don't know what he's got lined 
up for this session but he's bound to inspire some new thought 
processes. See you there.

Cheers, Rob.

Jethro Carr wrote:
> "Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystems Global CTO for Open Source will be in
> Wellington for one day only on Monday, 26 January 2009.  This proposed
> open forum will provide the opportunity for interested parties to
> discuss the role of Open Source in today's increasingly demanding
> working environment."
>
> See the attached email for full details - could be an interesting talk
> to go to. :-)
>
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> Subject:
> Simon Phipps meeting in Wellington
> From:
> Nigel Charman <nigel at charman.net.nz>
> Date:
> Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:10:07 +1300
> To:
> Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com>
>
> To:
> Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com>
>
>
> Hi Jethro
>
> This meeting may be of interest to the WellyLUG group.  I'll let you 
> know if we get any more details on what Simon is planning to talk about...
>
>
> Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystems Global CTO for Open Source will be in 
> Wellington for one day only on Monday, 26 January 2009.  This proposed 
> open forum will provide the opportunity for interested parties to 
> discuss the role of Open Source in today's increasingly demanding 
> working environment.
>
> When:
>     Monday, 26th January
>
> Where:
>     Holiday Inn, 75 Featherston Street
>
> Time:
>     4.30pm  Registration and afternoon tea
>     5pm   Session commences
>     7pm   Finish
>
> Please register your interest at 
> http://www.eventbrite.com/event/251885396 so that we can get a idea of 
> the numbers for the venue and catering.
>
> Technology futurist Simon Phipps is a well-known computer industry 
> insider and commentator and as well as having a widely-read weblog he 
> speaks frequently at industry events on technology trends and futures. 
> At various times he has programmed mainframes, Windows and on the Web. 
> Currently the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., he 
> was previously involved in OSI standards in the 80s, in the earliest 
> commercial collaborative conferencing software in the early 90s, in 
> introducing Java and XML to IBM and most recently with Sun's launching 
> Sun's blogging site, blogs.sun.com <http://blogs.sun.com>. He lives in 
> the UK, is based at Sun's Menlo Park campus in California and can be 
> contacted via http://www.webmink.net
>
> This event is being sponsored by Sun Microsystems.
>
>
> regards
> Nigel Charman,
> Wellington Java User Group
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