If I can squeeze it in.  Mark kindly gave OK to record.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Joseph Kern <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Will there be a video available?
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:09 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> If you'll be in the SF Bay Area this weekend, Mark Burgess is giving a
>> talk on Promise Theory at LinkedIn on Saturday at 5 P.M., would love to see
>> you there.
>>
>>
>> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thinking-in-promises-for-the-cyborg-age-tickets-17284050059
>>
>> Event Details
>>
>> The traditional way of talking about all aspects of human organization is
>> through commands, requirements, and obligations. However, this tradition is
>> not only presumptuous but actually inconsistent in a logical sense. As we
>> embrace more of the realities of distributed systems for a global world, we
>> need a new way of thinking about intent. In this talk, Mark Burgess
>> explains the motivation for Promise Theory (the subject of his new book
>> Thinking in Promises), and what this means for our technology and
>> interactions in a world of humans and machines.
>>
>> About the speaker
>>
>> Mark Burgess is the Founder and original author of CFEngine. He was
>> senior lecturer and then professor of Network and System Administration at
>> Oslo University College from 1994-2011. He was the first professor with
>> this title and remains Emeritus Professor. Mark obtained a PhD in
>> Theoretical Physics in Newcastle, for which he received the Runcorn Prize.
>> His current research interests include the behaviour of computers as
>> dynamic systems and applying ideas from physics to describe computer
>> behaviour. Mark is the author of the popular configuration management
>> software package CFEngine, and is the founder of the CFEngine company. He
>> led theoretical and practical contributions to the theory of automation and
>> policy based management, including the idea of Operator Convergence and
>> Promise Theory. He is the author of numerous books and papers on Network
>> and System Administration and has won several prizes for his work.
>>
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