Peak Oil, FOSS, Hawaii & You
A discussion of how Free and Open Source Software will foster innovation
and economic growth, maybe even competitive advantages, in the face of
rising fuel prices.
About the Speaker
Jim Thompson has been noodling around the UNIX world for far too long a
time. He knows he started with BSD Unix Release 4.1a on a Vax 11/780
in 1980. He still thinks "echo 'This is not a pipe." | cat - >
/dev/tty' is funny. He submitted his first patch to a Free Software
project in 1985 for a port of GNU Emacs to a Convex vector
supercomputer. Jim refuses to divulge his qualifications and may, in
fact, have none at all. He lives in a fortified condo near Kailua with
his wife Jamie and son, Hunter Speed. His email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Officially:
Jim Thompson was Director of Product Development at Vivato. Prior to
joining Vivato, Jim Thompson founded and served as the chief technology
officer at Musenki, a developer of secure, open-source wireless
networking products targeted at original equipment manufacturers,
wireless Internet service providers, and public access (hot spot)
providers. Prior to that, Mr. Thompson was the chief technology officer
and vice president of engineering at Wayport, where he designed and
built Everywire, a series of products created to bring Internet access
into public spaces. Prior to leaving Wayport, Jim architected and
championed Wayport's move to a 100 percent wireless network. Jim
Thompson was also founder and chief technology officer of Smallworks,
an Internet security technology supplier to Cisco, Sterling Commerce
(acquired by Computer Associates), Quadritek (acquired by Lucent),
Competitive Automation (acquired by @Home), Wells Fargo, Cadence and
Monsanto; Director of Engineering for Tadpole Technology; and Network
Operations Center Manager for Sun Microsystems.
Time: 5:45 to 8:30
Location: Marine Sciences Auditorium, The University of Hawaii
If you want Pizza, $7
For directions, go to
http://www.hawaii.edu/campusmap/
and click on Marine Science [E4]
Look forward to seeing you there.
