The first quarterly GNHLUG meeting of 2006 will be a joint meeting with the New Hampshire Chapter of ACM/IEEE. The presentation takes place at 5 PM (NOTE THE TIME!) on January 24th in the Walker Auditorium in Robert Frost Hall on the Southern New Hampshire University campus. We're privileged to have Tim Burke of Red Hat with an interesting presentation on the roles of Red Hat the corporation and Fedora the project and their roles in the Open Source community. It should be a great presentation!

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

NH ACM/IEEE page: http://acadweb.snhu.edu/Isaak_James/ITseminars/ITSeminars05-06.htm

TOPIC: Open source development & productization: how Red Hat balances its role as community steward and purveyor of enterprise products.

Open source development is rapidly gaining momentum due to developer interest as well as empowerment to 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 our distribution and how Red Hat fosters 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.

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 core 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 available cluster solutions and Unix kernel technology. When not juggling bugs, features and schedules, he enjoys running, rock climbing, bicycling, and paintball.