Date: Saturday the 27th of April 2002
Time 10:00 to 16:00
Location:
Laver Building Floor 6
Streatham Campus
University of Exeter
Exeter
Devon
A Map of the location of the
Streatham Campus
A Map of the Streatham
Campus
The Open Source Day is a collaboration of the Devon & Cornwall Linux Users' Group, The South West Linux Users' Group and Exeter University's Student Linux Users' Group.
The day will cover both Free Software and Open Source Software, highlighting the differences between the two and how they aid software development.
10.00 a.m. Registration & coffee.
10.30 a.m. "An Introduction to Open Source Software", by Simon Waters of Eighth Layer Ltd and member of D&C LUG
11.00 a.m. "A Brief History of Open Source", by Tony Atkin of the Dept of Geography, College of St Mark & St John, Plymouth.
11.30 p.m. "The Open ISP", by Theo Zourzouvillys of Notnet Consultancy.
12.00 p.m. "PostgreSQL", by Stuart Henshall of Westcountry Publications.
12.30 p.m. Lunch
2.00 p.m. "Perl: It's Not Just for System Administration", by Doctor Alasadair Allan, of the Astrophysics Group, the Dept of Physics, University of Exeter.
2.30 p.m. "Open Source in Health - a Review of Some Current Developments", by Doctor Adrian Midgley.
3.00 p.m. "The Two-Year-Old Open Source Office", by Simon Waters
4.00 p.m. Close.
We would like to thank the following for
their generous support.
The University of Exeter
