[olug] Jeff Bates, Google Open Source IT Manager, speaking @ UNO on 2012-10-12

[Kevin]

What time is this going to be?
On Sep 25, 2012 3:31 PM, "Adam Haeder" <adam at adamhaeder.com> wrote:

> UNO hosts monthly "College of IS&T Round Tables", where they have speakers
> (usually UNO IT instructors) present on an IT topic. On 2012-10-12, the
> speaker is Jeff Bates, Open Source IT Manager at Google. Here is the text
> from the official invite:
>
> About the Talk
> How does Google participate with open source communities? Jeff Bates,
> Google
> Open Source IT Manager, will address this question, illustrating what open
> source
> community participation entails (considering business and legal issues) and
> what are
> the expectations both to open source communities and Google. He will talk
> about
> Google’s management of open source community participation internally and
> how the
> organization interfaces with the greater open source landscape. Jeff will
> also highlight
> how Google releases intellectual property to an open community landscape
> and how
> the organization addresses employees who have been contributors to various
> open
> source communities prior to joining Google.
>
> About the Speaker
> Jeff Bates is the co-founder of Slashdot.org and was responsible for
> building
> SourceForge.net as well as running Thinkgeek.com. He has been a frequent
> speaker in the Open Source community and has advised various companies and
> governments about adoption of open source code and techniques. After years
> of
> running engineering teams, building data centers and replying to many, many
> emails,
> he joined Google in 2011 and works on releasing tools and services that
> Google has
> built to the open source community via code or available as services to the
> whole
> world. He continues to respond to many, many emails.
>
> The event is open to the public and will be at the Peter Kiewit Institute
> in room 279 (unless they need to move it to a bigger room).
> RSVP to Angela Nastase at (402)554-4150 or anastase at unomaha.edu by October
> 1, 2012.
>
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