[Speakers] Speaker: Borland RAD tools for Linux?

[Steve Traugott]

Shawn,

I really needed to nail down the speaker earlier this month -- it's
been 9 days since your last mail.  It looks like we already have
someone else lined up for May 1st, as well as a likely backup.  Would
John be willing to provide backup for the first two?  

- I'd need John's email, and direct communications with him.

- I need a more complete description of the talk -- again, see my
  sample, attached below.

Steve



We're pleased to announce the next meeting of the Silicon Valley Linux
Users Group!

WHAT: 

  SpringBox -- http://www.dloo.org

WHEN: 

  Wednesday, 6 March, 7pm-9pm or so.

WHO: 

  Nile Geisinger and Alex Ledin, dLoo, Inc., Petaluma, CA

BACKGROUND: 

For the past two years dLoo has been developing a new way of creating
and sharing open source software. The result is a project called
SpringBox.

Before the Web, information was trapped in proprietary databases and
couldn't be linked together. The Web overthrew that model, and
replaced it with a model in which information was public and linkable.
These two traits made the value of the information available online
grow exponentially.

Today, open source software is trapped on individual computers and
can't be linked together. SpringBox makes it possible to build
networks of software out of distributed units of code that live on the
Internet. With SpringBox, open source developers can post code
publicly in discrete units, like web pages, and other developers can
create new discrete units of code that link to those units. In this
way, SpringBox enables a Web of Software.

We believe SpringBox has the potential to do for open source software
what the Web did for online information. Our presentation will discuss
SpringBox, this new unit of code (the Symbol) and the way that Symbols
can be used to construct an extensible Linux software environment.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Alex Ledin is the COO of dLoo and has contributed to the technology of 
SpringBox. In prior work, Ledin has contributed to large public engineering 
projects and developed electric vehicles. Ledin is a graduate of UC Davis 
with majors in Electrical Engineering and Political Science. In his spare 
time he enjoys restoring old cars, playing classical piano and jazz 
saxophone, and traveling.

Nile Geisinger is CTO of dLoo and the creator of SpringBox. Before working 
at dLoo, Geisinger worked at TimeDance and the Advanced Development Center 
at Ricoh. Geisinger is also a graduate of UC Davis with majors in Computer 
Science and Philosophy. In his spare time, Geisinger writes statements 
about what he does in his spare time. He doesn't expect to finish.

WHERE:

Cisco Building 9.  The land of NUMBERS. The VINEYARDS conference
center.  The side we are on is the Silver Oak/Jordan conference rooms,
where a large Cisco fountain is usually not turned on.  Directions on
how to get there are listed at:

        http://www.svlug.org/directions/cisco-9.shtml 

We've tried our very best for these directions to be accurate.  If you
have any improvements to make, please let our Web Team know!
web-team at svlug.org

NOTES:

It's best if you arrive close to on time, as otherwise there may not
be someone posted at the door to let you in.  After the speakers end
their presentation there is usually a Q&A session, time for job
seekers and employers to meet, and often a few door prizes.  When the
meeting is over people are encouraged to chat a bit, but also to exit
the building so Cisco can lock up. Don't worry, a lot of us go to
dinner afterward so there's plenty of time to chat outdoors or
offsite.

We look forward to seeing you there!


On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:17:50AM -0700, Shawn McKenzie wrote:
> Hi Steve.
> 
> Here is the bio for John Thomas who will be the speaker.
> 
> ---
> 
> John (JT) Thomas is a product manager for the RAD Tools Group at 
> Borland. He is an avid graphics programmer and is a co-founder of el 
> Barrio Interactive, a computer game development company. JT is also a 
> student of computer graphics at the University of California, Santa Cruz 
> and lives in Santa Cruz with his wife, Jessica, and baby daughter, Izabella.
> 
> ---
> He will be speaking about Borland RAD products (Both our Delphi language 
> product and the upcoming release of our C++ product).
> 
> Let me know if you need anything else.
> 
> 
> 
> Steve Traugott wrote:
> 
> >Hi Shawn,
> >
> >Can you do the evening of May 1st?
> >
> >Steve
> >
> >On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 01:59:35PM -0800, Shawn O. McKenzie wrote:
> >
> >>Hello Steve.
> >>
> >>I'm trying to put together a few little talks for one of our engineers 
> >>here at Borland, & thought you all might be interested. I used to be 
> >>fairly involved with BALUG & have set up a talk there in march. The 
> >>speaker will be John Thomas. he gave a presentation at the last 
> >>linuxworld in NY showing off our upcoming C++ RAD product for Linux. For 
> >>the BALUG talk (and hopefully the SVLUG as well) I was thinking he could 
> >>cover both that and our current version of Kylix (which is Delphi for 
> >>Linux). Kylix just won "Best Development Tool" at Linuxworld, so I 
> >>thought you all might be interested.
> >>
> >>Let me know if you all have interest and I will set it up.
> >>
> >>Thanks.
> >>
> >>
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> >
> 
> 

-- 
Stephen G. Traugott 
UNIX/Linux Infrastructure Architect, TerraLuna LLC
stevegt at TerraLuna.Org   
http://www.stevegt.com