I was asked for forward this to the list. re Eric Raymond.

[gaf at gaf.ne.mediaone.net (Jerry Feldman)]

Note that Eric will be speaking at the BLU in April.
The Greater Boston Chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery
March 16, 2000 meeting presents Eric Steven Raymond speaking on "The Open
Source Movement."  The meeting is being co-sponsored with the IEEE
Computer Society.  Here are some details:

Time

  Refreshments at 6:45 p.m. 
  Meeting at 7:00 p.m. 

Location

  Newman Auditorium 
  GTE Internetworking (formerly BBN) 
  Cambridge, MA (near Fresh Pond Circle)
  (for directions see:  http://www.gbcacm.org/meetings.shtml#Additional )

Optional Post-Meeting Dinner

  An optional pay-your-own dinner at Bertucci's, Alewife, follows the
  meeting.

Additonal Information for This Meeting

  This meeting is free, open to the public, and no registration is
  required. For more information, contact Marcia Nizzari at
  (617) 856-1804 (marcia.nizzari at tfn.com), Scott Curry at
  scurry at object-components.com, or Jim Ganino at jsganino at tasc.com
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The Greater Boston Chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery
March 16, 2000 meeting presents Eric Steven Raymond speaking on The Open
Source Movement.  The meeting is being co-sponsored with the IEEE
Computer Society.  Here are some details:

Time

  Refreshments at 6:45 p.m. 
  Meeting at 7:00 p.m. 

Location

  Newman Auditorium 
  GTE Internetworking (formerly BBN) 
  Cambridge, MA (near Fresh Pond Circle)
  (for directions see:  http://www.gbcacm.org/meetings.shtml#Additional )

Meeting Overview

Eric Steven Raymond has become the spokesman over the course of the last
several years for the open-source software community. His much-discussed
paper, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," played a pivotal role in
persuading Netscape to make their browser software open-source.

The burgeoning open-source software movement is fueled by free source
code, and contributions from innumerable programmers around the world
are helping to keep this movement at the forefront of software industry
consciousness. In addition to Netscape opening its source, IBM decided
to support the popular open-source Apache web server, and several major
database vendors ported their products to the UNIX-like open-source
operating system Linux. Even Microsoft revealed a strong interest in
open-source when two of its internal strategy memoranda on open-source
software were leaked to Mr. Raymond.

Mr. Raymond added his own commentary to these memoranda, renamed them
"Halloween I" and "Halloween II" in commemoration of the date on which
he received the first one, and published them on the Internet. Both
memoranda were striking not just for the attention they brought to bear
on the open-source movement, but for their surprisingly upbeat analysis
of the abilities of the open-source movement to marshal programming
resources and use them to develop high-quality software.

In "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" Mr. Raymond describes his own
experiences with using open-source methods to develop the "fetchmail"
utility. He analyzes how such open-source or "bazaar" development
methods differ from those of more traditional closed-source or
"cathedral" software development efforts, and concludes that open-source
methods provide a powerful set of methods for producing software that is
both efficient and extremely reliable. Mr. Raymond emphasizes in
particular the powerful impact on software quality of global peer review
of source code, which he summarizes in the statement that "Given enough
eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." For more information, please see Mr.
Raymond's website at:   http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr

Optional Post-Meeting Dinner

  An optional pay-your-own dinner at Bertucci's, Alewife, follows the
  meeting.

Additonal Information for This Meeting

  This meeting is free, open to the public, and no registration is
  required. For more information, contact Marcia Nizzari at
  (617) 856-1804 (marcia.nizzari at tfn.com), Scott Curry at
  scurry at object-components.com, or Jim Ganino at jsganino at tasc.com

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-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org


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