[CALUG] June 10 Meeting Announcement -- Chris Tozzi's History of FOSS

[Chuck Frain]

 Greetings Everyone!

For our June 10 meeting we will be welcoming Chris Tozzi and his
presentation on the history of Free and Open Source Software.

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?

And here's a bit about Chris:

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.

The meeting will take place at OmniTI, located in Fulton, MD. The
address is 11830 West Market Place Fulton, MD 20759. The building is
near the Harris Teeter, easily seen from the road. When you approach the
HT head on, the OmniTI office is to its right.

We'll be using the back entrance which is surrounded by plants which
will lead directly to the meeting room.

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.

http://www.calug.org
http://www.tenable.com
http://omniti.com
http://omniti.com/is/here


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Chuck Frain
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