<p>Please join us for our next meeting on April 10, 2008 at 7pm at Red
Hat, 1801 Varsity Dr, Raleigh. Directions are available at
<a href="http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/ww/americas/raleigh.html">http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/ww/americas/raleigh.html</a> . Our speaker will be Paul Jones, founder and director of ibiblio. This meeting will also kick off our 2008 membership drive, so if you need a membership, need a membership card, or need a shell account, join us!<br>
</p><p>About our speaker:</p><p>For the past 15 years, ibiblio has remained one of the major brands
in the Open Source ecosystem providing services to over 3,000 projects
in Open Source and Open Information. A center for collaboration,
innovation and service, ibiblio (as <a href="http://sunsite.unc.edu">sunsite.unc.edu</a> and later as
<a href="http://metalab.unc.edu">metalab.unc.edu</a>) pioneered website hosting, Internet radio,
network-distributed Linux distributions , and other ground- breaking
activities.</p>
<p>PaulJones, founder and director of <a href="http://ibiblio.org">ibiblio.org</a>, will talk about how
the Big Ideas are put into practice and how they have played out in such<br>
specific projects as Project Gutenberg, Groklaw, Degree Confluence,
eTree.org, The Linux Documentation Project, Roger McGuinn's Folk Den
and other ibiblio-hosted and supported projects.</p><br>Doors open at 6:45. This meeting begins around 7pm and is expected to end by 9pm. <br><br>Best,<br>Matt Frye<br><p><br></p>