[PLUG] Eric Raymond speaking at Chester County Book & Music Co., Oct 18, 12:30 pm

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

I was at Chester County Book & Music yesterday and saw that PLUG's own
Eric Raymond will be speaking there later this month.  Here's the
official announcement from their website, http://www.ccbmc.com/:

  Saturday, October 18 -- Eric S. Raymond will visit to sign and
  discuss his new book, The Art of UNIX Programming (Addison Wesley,
  $39.99), at 12:30 PM. Eric is, with Linus Torvalds and Richard
  Stallman, one of the three most influential thinkers/leaders in the
  open-source movement; his face has been on T-shirts and posters for
  the geek crowd more than once. He is also its most visible public
  spokesperson, and is frequently quoted in the computer trade press
  and mainstream media like the Wall Street Journal, Business Week,
  and The Economist. In 1997 Eric published a technical paper called
  The Cathedral and the Bazaar which explained the astonishing success
  of Linux as a product of the transparent peer-review process
  surrounding its development. This document rocked the tech world; it
  shook up a lot of established ideas about software development, gave
  Linux advocates powerful new arguments, motivated Netscape to
  release the source code for the Mozilla browser, and helped trigger
  the tech-stock boom of 1998-1999. It also catapulted Eric's position
  from that of ordinary tribal elder to one of the philosopher-princes
  of the hacker culture. The book version of the paper made the New
  York Times business-book bestseller list. In 1998, Eric ran the
  meeting where the term "open source" was invented, and later founded
  the Open Source Initiative, which has become one of the movement's
  two principal advocacy organizations. He has since been one of the
  most sought-after public speakers in the technology, visiting
  fifteen countries on every continent with the exception of
  Antarctica and riveting audiences with a style that has been
  described as halfway between evangelism and stand-up comedy.

I'll add that CCB&MC is by far the best independent bookstore in the
area and well worth a visit anytime, even when Eric isn't speaking. :)
Unfortunately, though, it's a bit of a hike from the city and not
easily reached by public transit.

Walt

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