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 20th April 2007By Julian H.
        Stacey & Associates
       
 Summary
      The lecture targets professional engineers' requirements, as
      well as more general office personal work- station usage for
      non technical staff & corporate server requirements.
      Using Free Software enables more cost effective engineering
      & business. "Don't Panic!"   
      
       Technicalities for `gurus/ geeks/ freaks/ hackers' are
      omitted from this talk. 
       
        Where & Why it's very cost effective to adopt free
        software.Extra Benefits (beyond Nothing to pay!) : Source Code -
        What benefit ? ...Drawbacks - Just a few, & how to avoid them.Free Software Systems : Linux & BSD Unix etc.Free Supplementary Packages: Sixteen thousand - pre
        integrated !Case Studies: Governmental & Commercial users.Support available: Free & Professional consultancy.
        Various local co.sHow to start saving money, & reducing risk, &
        development time.Format & Schedule
      Lecture with four assistant speakers 
      to briefly outline some sub topics. Questions during talks
      should be kept brief please, as timescale is tight for all speakers . Question session to panel of
      all speakers at end in the lecture room. Speakers  will be available over dinner for
      more questions. Lecture in English, More complex/ specialist
      questions over dinner in English or German. 
       Schedule (subject to change) 
        
          | TIME | EVENT / TALK TOPIC | WHO |  
          | 18:30 | Equipment arrival: Projector
          (Beamer), main Laptop, KVM, cable & wireless
          presenters, connection, configuration | Alan & Julian |  
          | 18:40 | Arrival of extra Speakers. Reservation of top adjacent
          seats for question panel & Faraday organisers.
          Copying presentations to/ from main laptop with USB
          sticks. Extra laptop resolution compatability check with
          projector | Speakers |  
          | 19:00 | Doors Open. Audience
          find seats, order drinks from waiter, & inspect
          literature & media the speakers have laid out. |  |  
          | 19:20 | Faraday e.V. Announcements/ Intro. | Gareth |  
          | 19:30 | Main Talk Starts
          Introduction & Overview | Julian |  
          | 19:50 | Topic: Text Processing : Open
          Office & other tools | Astrid |  
          | 20:00 | Topic: NetBSD. More CPUs than
          Linux. + BSD ports/packages. | Marc |  
          | 20:10 | Topic: VOIP - Internet integrated
          telephony + BSD V. Linux | Emil |  
          | 20:20 | Topic: 15 Years Windows-Free
          Zone | Bernhard |  
          | 20:30 | Summary. 
          
           + Distribution of various media & leaflets. | Julian |  
          | 20:35 | Questions to Panel | Speakers |  
          | 20:50 | Pay waiter for Drinks | All |  
          | 20:50 | Announcement of room reserved for food
          &/or drink | Gareth |  
          | 21:00 | Depart to new room (taking clothing
          media & equipment). | All | No Smoking
      
        
          |   |  | No Smoking during talk & meal after
          please. Main Speaker is allergic,
          All topic speakers are non
          smokers, Faraday Stammtisch regulars don't seem to smoke:
          either people do not like it, are non smoker, or refrain
          if they are smokers. The venue offers other rooms for any
          who may want to pollute. (Part of the public rooms there
          are now also smoke free). |  Business Cards
      Do exchange business cards. speakers 
      will be happy to hear if later you personally or your company
      adopts free open source software: There's local Linux &
      BSD  user groups to
      help you, & we can put you in touch with various
      specialists & open source oriented companies.
    
      Main Speaker: Julian H. Stacey 
       
      Topic Speakers : 
       
        
          
            | Astrid Jekat | Internet security company. |  
            | Bernhard Schneck | Internet security
            company. |  
            | Emil Stoyanov | VOIP Developer. |  
            | Marc Recht | NetBSD
            commiter. Banking Software. | Venue
      Prince Albert room, (1st floor, East), Unions Bräu, 
      Einstein-Str 42, Haidhausen, 81675 Munich/ München,
      Germany. (Venue will later be added to IET / Faraday  site. 
       Directions: Right by exit of U Bahn U 4 & 5, Max Weber
      Platz (East end, furthest from city centre, South side of
      road). Maps
    FREE Seat Booking / Registration
      
        Please book your seats for lecture &
        optional dinner (or drinks) after. You do Not need to
        be a member to book a free seat, but DO book as soon as
        possible.The lecture is free, both for members of Faraday
        & others, but IET /
        Faraday members may get preference over late
        bookers.Pay waiter direct for drink & food you order off
        normal menu.
Please tell your colleagues & associates & book
        as soon as possible. (Much time will be spent
        preparing the lecture, so nice if maximum audience benefit
         )If seats are all gone by the time you book, email the
        Speaker direct, & he may arrange
        a repeat later. 
      After the lecture, presentation "slides" will be archived
      here , for audience & free source software groups.
     Review
      A review was kindly written by Derek, to appear in Faraday
      quarterly.
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