NC*SA Meeting - Monday, February 10th - Eric S. Raymond on Freedom, Power, and Software

[Lisa Lorenzin]

NC*SA is pleased to announce that our February meeting, co-sponsored with
the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG), will feature a lecture by Eric S.
Raymond.

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Please note the CHANGE OF VENUE for this meeting.  The lecture will be
held at the North Carolina School of Science and Math in Durham, courtesy
of NCSSM.  This is not our regular location, and was chosen to
accommodate the expected number of attendees.

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Speaker:	Eric S. Raymond
Topic:		Freedom, Power, and Software: What the Internet teaches us 
                about ethics and politics
Date:		Monday, February 10th, 2003
Time:		7:00PM (hall opens at 6:30PM)
Location:	General Assembly Hall
		John Friedrick Educational Technology Center
		North Carolina School of Science and Math (NCSSM)

Eric S. Raymond is an observer-participant anthropologist in the Internet
hacker culture. His research has helped explain the decentralized
open-source model of software development that has proven so effective in
the evolution of the Internet. His own software projects include one of
the Internet's most widely-used email transport programs [fetchmail]. Mr.
Raymond is also a science fiction fan, a musician, an activist for the
First and Second Amendments, and a martial artist with a Black Belt in Tae
Kwon Do. His home page is at http://www.catb.org/~esr

Eric Raymond is on the Board of the Open Source Initiative and VA
Software. He is editor of "The New Hacker's Dictionary" and author of "The
Cathedral and the Bazaar." Eric has been a sparing partner of Richard
Stallman in the debate between "Free Software" and "Open Source" software.

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Directions to the John Friedrick Educational Technology Center at NCSSM:

>From RTP / Wake County / Points East

1) Take I-40 West to NC 147 North - Durham Freeway.
2) Take Exit 14, Swift Avenue, and turn right (north) at top of ramp.
 	(this is the Duke East Campus exit)
3) Turn left at the first traffic light onto Main Street.
4) Turn right at the next traffic light onto Ninth Street.
5) Follow Ninth Street until it tees into Club Blvd.
	(NCSSM will be directly in front of you)
6) Go straight through the light for Club Blvd into the NCSSM driveway.
7) Park in main parking lot on your right.

>From Chapel Hill / Points South; and points West

1) Take 15-501 Bypass North, or I-85 East, to NC 147 South - Durham Frwy.
2) Take Exit 14, Swift Avenue, turn left (north) at top of ramp.
 	(this is the Duke East Campus exit)
3) Turn left at the first traffic light onto Main Street.
4) Turn right at the next traffic light onto Ninth Street.
5) Follow Ninth Street until it tees into Club Blvd.
	(NCSSM will be directly in front of you)
6) Go straight through the light for Club Blvd into the NCSSM driveway.
7) Park in main parking lot on your right.

>From northern Durham / Points North

1) Take I-85 to Exit 175 - Guess Rd.
2) Take Guess Road south into Durham.
	(From 85 North, turn right onto Guess)
	(From 85 South, turn left onto Guess)
3) Turn right at the first light (after the I-85 ramps) onto Broad St.
	(Follow the sign for NCSSM)
4) Pass NCSSM on your right; turn right at the first light onto Club Blvd.
6) Turn right at the next light (Ninth Street) into NCSSM.
7) Park in main parking lot on your right.

Once on campus:

1) Park in main parking lot on right of entrance
2) Walk uphill (away from Ninth Street) towards the Bryan Center
3) Friedrick Center is on the left end of the Bryan Center building
4) Enter at the circular patio with the paired round concrete columns
5) The auditorium (General Assembly Hall) is just inside the entrance
6) Restrooms and stairs to balcony are down the hall on the right

Further locator and campus maps are at:
http://www.ncssm.edu/General/map/index.htm

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Information is also available on the NC*SA website 
(http://www.ncsysadmin.org/) and the TriLUG website
(http://www.trilug.org/).


-- 
Lisa Lorenzin
lorenzin@1000plus.com