Thanks to those of you who came to my Open Source Pizza presentation at the University of Hawaii tonight. It was really nice to talk in front a receptive crowd with great questions afterwards.
The slides are available on my blog in OpenOffice.org Impress and PDF format: http://ohana.lava.net/blogs/jyap/systems/2006/09/19/leveraging_free_software_presentation ~ Julian On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 10:34 -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: > Please join us for this evening's Open Source Pizza. > > > TITLE: Leveraging Free Software to create the new LavaNet web site and > LavaNet 'Ohana Community portal > > How many IT projects do you know take less than 3 months to complete and > cost $0 in software? While at LavaNet, Julian Yap has led the creation > of the community portal, LavaNet 'Ohana, and a rebuild of the main web > site using Free and Open Source Software. Julian discusses the top to > bottom implementation of Free Software and how the ethos of the Free > Software community were used to complete this project. > > Julian Yap works as a Unix Systems Administrator/Web Specialist for the > locally owned Internet Service Provider, LavaNet Inc. He is also a > member of the Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation (HOSEF) Board of > Directors and has recently become a Red Hat Certified Technician. Prior > to November 2005 he lived in Melbourne, Australia where he has worked > for the companies Raywood Communications, Sidewinder Holdings (Asia > Pacific) and IBM Global Services Australia. He holds a Bachelors of > Business Information Systems degree from Monash University, Australia. > > Time: 5:45 to 8:30 > > Location: Marine Sciences Auditorium, The University of Hawaii > > If you want Pizza, $7, otherwise it is Free > > For directions, go to > > http://www.hawaii.edu/campusmap/ > > and click on Marine Science [E4] > > For parking please write [EMAIL PROTECTED] >