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2007-09-17 15:42:53 |
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CITRIS Distinguished Speaker Series
Monday, September 17 *today*
4:00 p.m.
306 Soda Hall, HP Auditorium, UC Berkeley Campus
On Monday, September 17th, we are pleased to offer the next
talk in the CITRIS Distinguished Speaker Series:
";Innovation Goes Public"
Bruce Perens, Creator of the Open Source Definition, and vice
president at Sourcelabs
A reception will follow, with generous support from Infineon
Technologies. As always, these talks are free, open to the public and
broadcast live online at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast.
http://www.citris-uc.org/CDS-Sept-17-2007
Abstract:
Open Source provides much of the software infrastructure for many of
the world's largest companies and organizations: Merrill Lynch, Google,
Pixar, Amazon, the City of New York, and probably you - although you
might not know it. Innovative products like Linux, Firefox, and Apache
are the market-leaders in their sectors, but there are tens of thousands
of Open Source programs, used for just about everything. But the
economics of Open Source are non-intuitive: how can you make money by
giving software away?
Perens will show how Open Source is often the most effective strategy for
creating and utilizing new innovation. He will explain the economics of
Open Source and how it works for profit-generating companies. His talk
will be clear to beginners yet informative even for Open Source
pros.
Speaker Bio:
Bruce Perens is a leader in the Free Software and Open Source
community. He advises large corporations and several national governments
on Open Source policy. He is creator of the Open Source Definition, the
manifesto of the Open Source movement in Software. Perens is a vice
president at Sourcelabs, a venture-funded company that provides Open
Source services to Wall Street. He is a visiting researcher at Agder
University in Norway, funded by a national grant. He was HP's first
Senior Global Strategist for Linux and Open Source, and was Senior
Research Scientist for Open Source with George Washington University's
Cyber Security Policy Research Institute. The Bruce Perens' Open Source
Series from Prentice Hall published 24 titles with Perens as series
editor. Perens previously spent 20 years in the computer graphic
animation industry, 12 of them at Pixar Animation Studios. He has a
credit on the films A Bug's Life and Toy Story II.
Please join us at 4:00 p.m. today for what promises to be an exciting
talk.
best, Yvette
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yvette subramanian, ph.d. | CITRIS publications and events
coordinator
386 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley campus
(510) 643-4866 | (510) 642-1800 fax | yvette citris-uc.org
http://www.citris-uc.org/ |
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