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

[Jon Larsen]

Friday, October 12th, 2012,  11:30 AM to 1:00 PM, PKI 279

On 09/25/2012 03:40 PM, Kevin wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Adam Haeder
>> adam at adamhaeder.com
>>
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