[wellylug] Simon Phipps meeting in Wellington

[Mark Foster]

I've just registered. This sounds interesting enough that I think my other 
plans will be rainchecked.
This largely due to the number of goodly comments made by various people 
about the quality of the speaker. Thanks guys.

Mark.

On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Rob Giltrap wrote:

> 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. :-)
>>