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

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

Just a reminder, if anyone's thinking of going, that this is happening
tomorrow afternoon.

Walt

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 05:31:03PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> 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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