[web-team] Nov 2008 SVLUG meeting announcement

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Mark Weisler (mark at weisler-saratoga-ca.us):

> Thanks for the reminder. Do we have any blurb or biographical information at 
> this point?

We do, to the best of _my_ ability -- attached to this question that I
asked on October 7 and never heard any response:

http://lists.svlug.org/archives/volunteers/2008q4/001465.html

Quoting, once again:

It could be cool.  Just to make sure I'm understanding correctly 
(and I'm not complaining, just trying to make sure I have this right):

The answer to the question "What's the topic?" was "He will do a Q&A"
and the description paragraph for the talk is "Everything you wanted to
know, but were afraid to ask."

We certainly _can_ run with:


  TOPIC:
    Question and Answer

  PRESENTED BY:
    James Gosling, 
    VP and Sun Fellow, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

  TOPIC SUMMARY:
    Everything you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask.

  ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
    James Gosling received a BSc in Computer Science from the University
    of Calgary, Canada in 1977. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science 
    from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983. The title of his thesis was 
    "The Algebraic Manipulation of Constraints". He has built satellite 
    data acquisition systems, a multiprocessor version of Unix, several
    compilers, mail systems, and window managers. He has also built a 
    WYSIWYG text editor, a constraint based drawing editor and a port of
    the 'Emacs' text editor to Unix systems. At Sun, his early activity 
    was as lead engineer of the NeWS window system. He did the original 
    design of the Java programming language and implemented its 
    original compiler and virtual machine. 

If that's literally the focus (or non-focus) of Dr. Gosling's talk, 
then fine.  Can I get confirmation that it's correct?

(Also, is Dr. Gosling intending to literally do open Q&A for 1.5 - 2 
hours?  That's what the write-up I have so far would seem to suggest.)