[volunteers] Some meeting/speaker leads

[Rick Moen]

Mark --

The following list was mostly gleaned from a quick pass through the
SVLUG speakers at lists.svlug.org mailing list archive.  No guarantees
about anything, but they might either pan out directly or be leads for
finding other speakers.  E.g., we might not want some of our former
speakers (e.g., the Scalix guy) again so soon, but they might recommend
other interesting people who are co-workers, friends, etc.

I also recommend looking up, in that mailing list archive, the "Call for
Speakers" standard announcement / invitation text that Steve Traugott
and other SVLUG Speaker Coordinators have sent out in the past.




Jean Tourrilhes from HP who has a set of Web pages about
Wireless on Linux would be interesting to hear.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

Larry Wall <larry at wall.org>.

Jim McQuillan <jam at McQuil.Com>, founder/leader of the LTSP (Linux
Terminal Server Project), http://www.LTSP.org/.

Someone from TiVo?  They're in north San Jose.

Is it time for EFF, again?  Seth David Schoen.

Linux on PlayStation3.  Maybe Adam Bertsch
<Adam_Bertsch at playstation.sony.com>?  Luca Barbato?  Others?
Yellow Dog Linux (Sony-sponsored), FC5, and Gentoo are available for PS3.

Peter Thoeny, the author of TWiki http://www.twiki.org/
SVLUG speaker of Jan 2004.

Greg Keraunen <gk at proliberty.com>,  http://www.xmake.org  At one point,
offered to do a talk on PHP.
He's in San Jose.  http://www.proliberty.com/gk/resume.html

Matt Hire <matt.hire at tapeware.com> Yosemite Systems, tape backup

"Paul F. Kunz" <Paul_Kunz at SLAC.Stanford.EDU>,  installed the first
Web server in America, invented use of CVS over the Internet, founder
of GNUStep.  (Has spoken at SVLUG on the first of those topics.)

Rob Barret, Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center
Long ago, spoke to SVLUG on the topic "System Administrators are Users,
Too".

Jon Parshall <jparshall at codeweavers.com> 
C.O.O.
CodeWeavers
jparshall at codeweavers.com
(w) 651-523-9304
(fax) 651-523-9399  
(not local, but a guy who can find local contacts from that firm)


SBE, Inc. (formerly PyX Technologies)
[Concord, CA]
http://www.sbei.com/
They do SAN storage architecture on iSCSI and such.

Barracuda Networks
[Cupertino, CA]
http://www.barracudanetworks.com/
They sell 'spam firewall' devices.

Tall Maple Systems
[Sunnyvale, CA]
http://www.tallmaple.com/
They provide 'a complete solution for companies building Internet
Appliances.'  Their technology 'allows companies starting to build
an Internet appliance a way of jump-starting their product
development.'

Psion Teklogix
[Ontario, Canada]
http://www.psionteklogix.com/
Used to do Symbian-based devices, moved to Linux.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02/11/psion_looks_past_windows/

Someone talking about The Gimp?

SlimServer (formerly SliMP3) music appliances
http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_features.html  (Bought by Logitech.)

Nokia about the Nokia Web Browser (based on S60WebKit, a port of kHTML).
Also Internet Radio app, likewise for S60 cellphone.
http://opensource.nokia.com/

Scalix
Steve Martensen <steve.martensen at scalix.com>
Sr. Messaging Specialist
Scalix Corporation
1400 Fashion Island Blvd, #180
San Mateo CA 94404      
Did the talk at SVLUG in March 2005.

Shawn Walters of UncoverTheNet
Don Marti had recommended him, at some point.  Ask Don.
http://www.uncoverthenet.com/editors.php

Penguin Computing ( http://www.penguincomputing.com/ )
We've had Don Becker (of Penguin) speaking to us about Beowulf, but
maybe they have other things/speakers?

Bill Weinberg <bweinberg at osdl.org> and Brian Grega represent the Open
Source Development Lab in the Bay Area.  Spoke to SVLUG in June 2005.

Folks from the Calif. Air Resources Board & Franchise Tax Board spoke at
LUGOD on 08 Dec 2004:  Bill Kendrick said it was a great presentation.

Open Vote Foundation, BlackBoxVoting.org
Bill Kendrick comment:  These guys spoke at LUGOD recently.  Both
speakers were kinda... quirky... but they're non-profit folks working on
important issues, so this should be fine, too.                 

VMWare, Palo Alto

XenSource, Palo Alto

Tim Flagg, Linux Migration, Inc. (Palo Alto),
http://www.linuxmigration.com/ .  Consultancy to business for Linux
conversions.  

How 'bout a panel discussion featuring Bay Area Linux consultants?
You could have Tim Flagg (Linux Migration, Inc.), Jim Dennis / Heather
Stern of Starshine Technical Services, Tim Tuck of Pervasive Netwerks 
(Hayward), Christian Huebner of Linux Wisdom, Inc., Jason Venner of
Vennerable Consultants.