[Speakers] Tivo speaker for SVLUG

[Steve Traugott]

Hi Rebecca!

I'm Speaker Coordinator for the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group.  I'd
be very interested in seeing a technical talk from Tivo in the near
future -- I suspect this topic would pack the house.

Right now we have a tentative for Larry Wall April 3rd, which means
that May 1st is likely to be the next slot available, unless Larry
can't make it.  Can one or more senior Tivo engineers/architects
present on either of those dates?  

I'd say most of our members are familiar with the basic concept of
Tivo, but have never seen it in action.  I don't own a Tivo myself
yet; maybe you can help convince my wife.  ;-)  The presenter(s)
should be prepared for an audience of a few hundred, and will likely
get some in-depth technical questions about design and implementation
history, advanced usage tricks, as well as new feature suggestions.

Steve


			  CALL FOR SPEAKERS

The Silicon Valley Linux User Group (SVLUG) has openings for speakers
for our monthly meetings during several upcoming months.  If you would
like to present a topic of general interest to the Linux community,
please feel free to contact SVLUG speaker coordinator Steve Traugott
at speakers at svlug.org.  

About the group:
================

The Silicon Valley Linux User Group (SVLUG) is the oldest and one of
the largest Linux user groups in the world.  Past speakers include
Marc Andreessen, Paul Vixie, Tim O'Reilly, and Larry Wall.  SVLUG
celebrated its 10th anniversary at the March 4, 1998 meeting, where
Linus Torvalds addressed an audience of 500 people.  

SVLUG members include Linux professionals and enthusiasts in the
vicinity of San Jose, California, internationally known as Silicon
Valley.  Member interests include Linux and free or low-cost
implementations of Unix, open source software, and commercial products
which incorporate Linux.  The group was originally formed in 1988 as
the PC-Unix Special Interest Group of the Silicon Valley Computer
Society.  

SVLUG meetings are held the first Wednesday of the month, in
conference centers provided by Cisco.  The meetings are either
technical presentations, product demonstrations, or general question
and answer meetings.  Typical audience size for the monthly meeting is
150-250 people, with as many as twice that for popular topics.  The
standard room configuration includes video projector and wireless
microphones.  All meetings are free and open to the public.

See http://www.svlug.org for more information.



On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 03:48:33PM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> 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
> -- 
> Microsoft is to operating systems & security ....
>                                       .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking
>   
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http://www.svlug.org
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