TODAY: Bruce Perens to speak at CITRIS at 4:00 p.m.

CITRIS Distinguished Speaker Series
Monday, September 17 *today*
4:00 p.m.
306 Soda Hall, HP Auditorium, UC Berkeley Campus

On Monday, September 17th, we are pleased to offer the next talk in the
CITRIS Distinguished Speaker Series:

"Innovation Goes Public"
Bruce Perens, Creator of the Open Source Definition, and vice president at
Sourcelabs

A reception will follow, with generous support from Infineon Technologies.
As always, these talks are free, open to the public and broadcast live
online at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast.

http://www.citris-uc.org/CDS-Sept-17-2007

Abstract:
Open Source provides much of the software infrastructure for many of the
world's largest companies and organizations: Merrill Lynch, Google, Pixar,
Amazon, the City of New York, and probably you - although you might not
know it. Innovative products like Linux, Firefox, and Apache are the
market-leaders in their sectors, but there are tens of thousands of Open
Source programs, used for just about everything. But the economics of Open
Source are non-intuitive: how can you make money by giving software away?

Perens will show how Open Source is often the most effective strategy for
creating and utilizing new innovation. He will explain the economics of
Open Source and how it works for profit-generating companies. His talk will
be clear to beginners yet informative even for Open Source pros.

Speaker Bio:
Bruce Perens is a leader in the Free Software and Open Source community. He
advises large corporations and several national governments on Open Source
policy. He is creator of the Open Source Definition, the manifesto of the
Open Source movement in Software. Perens is a vice president at Sourcelabs,
a venture-funded company that provides Open Source services to Wall Street.
He is a visiting researcher at Agder University in Norway, funded by a
national grant. He was HP's first Senior Global Strategist for Linux and
Open Source, and was Senior Research Scientist for Open Source with George
Washington University's Cyber Security Policy Research Institute. The Bruce
Perens' Open Source Series from Prentice Hall published 24 titles with
Perens as series editor. Perens previously spent 20 years in the computer
graphic animation industry, 12 of them at Pixar Animation Studios. He has a
credit on the films A Bug's Life and Toy Story II.

Please join us at 4:00 p.m. today for what promises to be an exciting talk.

best, Yvette

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yvette subramanian, ph.d. | CITRIS publications and events coordinator
386 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley campus
(510) 643-4866 | (510) 642-1800 fax | yvette_at_citris-uc.org
http://www.citris-uc.org/

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Received on Mon Sep 17 2007 - 14:00:02 PDT