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Just a reminder, if anyone's thinking of going, that this is happening tomorrow afternoon. Walt On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 05:31:03PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote: > I was at Chester County Book & Music yesterday and saw that PLUG's own > Eric Raymond will be speaking there later this month. Here's the > official announcement from their website, http://www.ccbmc.com/: > > Saturday, October 18 -- Eric S. Raymond will visit to sign and > discuss his new book, The Art of UNIX Programming (Addison Wesley, > 39ドル.99), at 12:30 PM. Eric is, with Linus Torvalds and Richard > Stallman, one of the three most influential thinkers/leaders in the > open-source movement; his face has been on T-shirts and posters for > the geek crowd more than once. He is also its most visible public > spokesperson, and is frequently quoted in the computer trade press > and mainstream media like the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, > and The Economist. In 1997 Eric published a technical paper called > The Cathedral and the Bazaar which explained the astonishing success > of Linux as a product of the transparent peer-review process > surrounding its development. This document rocked the tech world; it > shook up a lot of established ideas about software development, gave > Linux advocates powerful new arguments, motivated Netscape to > release the source code for the Mozilla browser, and helped trigger > the tech-stock boom of 1998-1999. It also catapulted Eric's position > from that of ordinary tribal elder to one of the philosopher-princes > of the hacker culture. The book version of the paper made the New > York Times business-book bestseller list. In 1998, Eric ran the > meeting where the term "open source" was invented, and later founded > the Open Source Initiative, which has become one of the movement's > two principal advocacy organizations. He has since been one of the > most sought-after public speakers in the technology, visiting > fifteen countries on every continent with the exception of > Antarctica and riveting audiences with a style that has been > described as halfway between evangelism and stand-up comedy. > > I'll add that CCB&MC is by far the best independent bookstore in the > area and well worth a visit anytime, even when Eric isn't speaking. :) > Unfortunately, though, it's a bit of a hike from the city and not > easily reached by public transit. > > Walt
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