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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Greetings Everyone!<br><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For our June 10 meeting we will be welcoming Chris Tozzi and his presentation on the history of Free and Open Source Software. <br><br></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Chris Tozzi will discuss the history of the free and
open-source software movements. Areas of emphasis will include the
origins of "hacker culture" in the 1950s, the development of Unix
starting in the 1960s, the founding of GNU and the Free Software
Foundation in the 1980s, the emergence of Linux in the 1990s and the
ways in which FOSS technologies have been adopted and expanded in
diverse areas of the computing world since the early 2000s. The talk
will also consider several key questions in the history of FOSS,
including: What motivates free/open source developers? Why did Linux
succeed, while so many other "free" Unix clones gained comparatively
little traction? Why has FOSS not completely displaced proprietary
software? In which ways has FOSS influenced "free culture" and society
more broadly?<br clear="none"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">And here's a bit about Chris:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Chris
Tozzi is an assistant professor of history at Howard University. He
normally specializes in the history of France, but his summer project is
to write a history of the free/open-source software movement.<br clear="none"></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br>The meeting will take place at OmniTI, located in Fulton, MD. The
</span><br>address is 11830 West Market Place Fulton, MD 20759. The building is
<br>near the Harris Teeter, easily seen from the road. When you approach the
<br>HT head on, the OmniTI office is to its right.
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<br>We'll be using the back entrance which is surrounded by plants which
<br>will lead directly to the meeting room.
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<br>Be sure to show up from 6:30 until 7 for pizza provided by Tenable Network Security and socializing. The meeting will start about 7pm. <br>
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<br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Chuck Frain </div><div>GPG Key: B2420431</div><div><a href="http://www.chuckfrain.net" target="_blank">http://www.chuckfrain.net</a></div></div></div>
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