[Speakers] Tivo speaker for SVLUG

[Marc MERLIN]

Hi Rebecca,

As per our phone call, here's some information.

I'm the president of the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group
( http://www.svlug.org/ ).

We have about 500 members, and a  monthly meeting the first wednesday of the
month, 19:00 to 21:00, at Cisco in Santa Clara (by Zanker and Tasman).
Depending on  the month  and the speaker,  we usually have  from 100  to 300
people.

We have  had a fairly  prestigious list of speakers,  you can find  the list
here:
http://www.svlug.org/meetings.shtml
and here:
http://www.svlug.org/prevmeet.shtml
(Linus  Torvalds,   Marc  Andreesen/Netscape,  O'Reilly,   Larry  Wall/Perl,
David  Miller/Red  Hat,  Paul  Vixie/ISC, Phil  Hughes/Linux  Journal,  Eric
Allman/Sendmail,  Richard  Stallman/FSF,   Brian  Behlendorf/Apache,  Jeremy
Allison/Samba, Peter Anvin/Transmeta, VmWare, EFF, MAPS, Cisco, Sun, etc..)

The talk would be 90 to 120mn,  and would more of a technical talk, anything
about the choice of linux for  the Tivo, the technical challenges you faced,
your plans for the future, TivoNG, etc...

While this  wouldn't be  a marketing talk  about what tivo  is and  why it's
useful (most of us do know about Tivos even those who don't own one), a demo
of  the current  or upcoming  product  would of  course be  welcome (we  can
project video  on big screens),  and I'm sure it'll  be a good  reminder for
those who don't have a Tivo yet, to go buy one :-)

Feel free  to contact speakers at svlug.org  for any further questions  you may
have.

Marc
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