Michael Meeks, one of the lead GNOME developers, who works near Cam|(!#*@, has kindly agreed to give a joint OxLUG/CompSoc talk tomorrow evening at 8.30pm in Comlab.
I appreciate it is a late mid-week starting time for many of you, but Michael is a superb speaker and linux enthusiast, and we are privileged that he is visiting us; so please do make that extra effort to come along if you possibly can! I would like him to take away good impressions of the thriving Linux community that we have in Oxford:-)
This talk will present the latest and greatest, smaller, faster and more beautiful Gnome 2.0 desktop environment; and explain why this is going to be the platform of choice for Unix Vendors and ISVs for the next 5 years. You will catch a glimpse of the power of the new environment, and the (fading) glory of the exciting things still happening on top of the Gnome 1.4 platform. You should come away inspired with the vision of an accessible Free software desktop.
Michael is a Christian and enthusiastic believer in Free software. He very much enjoys working for Ximian Inc. where as a member of the Research Labs he gets paid to develop Gnome 2.0 infastructure, particularly ORBit2 and Bonobo, and play with interesting things. Prior to this he worked for Quantel gaining expertise in real time AV editing and playback achieved with high performance focused hardware / software solutions.
Date: Tuesday 28th May 2002 Time: 8.30pm Maps: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/ox/maps.html (enter from Parks Rd)