NC*SA Meeting - Monday, July 12, 2004 - Outsourcing in the Information Technology Industry

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The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators will be
Monday, July 12, 2004, at 7pm.  Details about the meeting and
directions are provided in this note.  We hope to see you there!

     Topic: Outsourcing in the Information Technology Industry
     Speaker: Joseph Mack PhD, High Performance Computing & Scientific
Visualization, LMIT, Supporting the EPA Research Triangle Park
     7:00 p.m., Monday, July 12, 2004

             Dreyfus Auditorium
     Research Triangle Institute
             Research Triangle Park, NC

Abstract:
The IT industry is using outsourcing, employees with H1-B visas
and a publicity campaign depicting a desperate shortage
of IT workers as a way of not paying the prevailing wage.
Foreign workers brought in on H1-B visas have few rights
and are under threat of deportation at the whim of their
employer.

The falsely created shortage is blamed upon the workers
not to keeping up their skills and needing more education.
The computer education system is beholden to industry for
grants and hardware and does not act in the interests of
students.

Joe Mack will explore the myths that are being perpetuated
by the IT industry and accepted by the politicians and the
general public as a smoke screen to avoid paying the prevailing
wage. If 10,000 IT workers wrote to their congressman,
we would not hear about outsourcing again.

Bio:
Joe came to the USA to do biochemical research. He was surprised
that most of the workers were foreigners and found that few
americans wanted the lifestyle, the pay or the working conditions.
He worked at UC Davis, Yale U, US Dept Agriculture, U Maryland,
National Cancer Inst, National Inst Health, Duke U on the way attaining
residency by taking a job that no qualified american would accept. One
day he realised that he was worth more as a self taught programmer
than as a biochemist with 25 years of experience and changed careers.

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Directions to Research Triangle Institute:

Directions to Research Triangle Institute
See also a map to the meeting place.

>From I-40 west of RTP (e.g. Chapel Hill):

Get onto I-40 heading east. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway -
North (towards Durham). Stay in right lane. Shift right as soon as
possible after merging with traffic coming off I-40 westbound.

Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn
to the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going
the wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift
immediately to the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute
Drive. Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus
Laboratory will be the first building on your right. Use the parking lot
in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance.

>From I-40 east of RTP (e.g. Raleigh):

Get onto I-40 heading west. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway -
North (towards Durham). Shift to rightmost lane as soon as possible Exit
to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn to
the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going the
wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to
the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the
second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the
first building on your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and
enter at the main entrance.

>From north of RTP (e.g. Durham):

Get onto NC-147 - Durham Freeway - south. Exit at the Cornwallis Road
exit. At the top of the exit, turn left to cross over the bridge. After
turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right lane. Take
the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the second right off of
East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on
your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main
entrance.

A map of RTI is available at http://www.rti.org/images/campus.gif

Enter through the glass doors at the front; all of the doors except one
will be locked, but one will be open for our access.  Walk through the
lobby, go straight out the glass doors, across the patio, and straight
into Dreyfus Auditorium.