Who : Tim Burke, Director of Fedora Project and Kernel Development at Red Hat

When : Tue, 24 Jan 2006, at 5:00 PM

Where: Walker Auditorium, Robert Frost Hall, SNHU

GNHLUG, NH ACM/IEEE, and SwANH are privileged to present Tim Burke, Director of Kernel Development for Red Hat Software, and Director of the Fedora Linux Project. Tim will speak on "How Red Hat balances its role as community steward and purveyor of enterprise products".

This presentation will be at 5:00 PM, on Tuesday, January 24th, 2006 in the Walker Auditorium, in Robert Frost Hall, at Southern New Hampshire University.

GETTING THERE

Campus Map: http://www.snhu.edu/212.asp

Robert Frost Hall is #2 on the map.

Directions: http://www.snhu.edu/209.asp#Getting_Here_by_Car

ABOUT THE PRESENTATION

Free and open source software development is rapidly gaining momentum and worldwide acceptance because it empowers end users. This presentation will describe Red Hat's approach to balancing the interests of community, customers, and business partners. We will see how open source projects are integrated to form Red Hat's distribution and how Red Hat supports and contributes to the community development process. This approach can serve as a model to others who are trying to understand the intersection of free open source software and business.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Tim Burke is the Director of Kernel Development at Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise. The Kernel Development team is responsible for the kernel portion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Burke is also the Director of the Fedora Project, an open source project sponsored by Red Hat and supported by the Fedora community. In his role as Fedora Director Tim leads both internal and external community projects with the ultimate goal of product incorporation. Prior to becoming a manager, Tim earned an honest living developing Linux high availability cluster solutions and Unix kernel technology. When not juggling bugs, features and schedules, he enjoys running, rock climbing, bicycling, and paintball.

ABOUT GNHLUG

Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group, http://www.gnhlug.org

ABOUT NH ACM/IEEE

http://acadweb.snhu.edu/Isaak_James/ITseminars/ITSeminars05-06.htm

ABOUT Software Association of New Hampshire

http://www.swanh.org