Date: Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 6:30 PM
Location: Hewlett Packard (see directions),
Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room.
Cost: Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is
only $10/year.
Topic
Open source is an important software development methodology. It can also be an important part of business strategy. In this talk Ron Goldman, a Sun Microsystems researcher, will describe how open source works and discuss why a company might want to participate. He will touch on open source business models, building community, licensing, and common mistakes.
About the Speaker
Ron Goldman is a researcher working at Sun
Microsystems Laboratories on alternative software development methodologies and new software architectures.
He is currently a member of the Sun SPOTs team that is investigating using
Java on small embedded, wireless devices. He was instrumental in defining
the vision and details for the java.net website and helped start the Javapedia
project. He has advised various Sun open source projects including NetBeans,
OpenOffice, and Jini. He is the co-author of the book Innovation
Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy published in April 2005 by
Morgan Kaufmann.
Before joining Sun, Ron developed a program to generate and manipulate
visual representations of complex data for use by social scientists as
part of a collaboration between NYNEX Science & Technology and the Institute
for Research on Learning. He has a continuing interest in the design of
programming languages and has developed various programming environments
(IDEs). He has a PhD in computer science from Stanford University where
he was a member of the robotics group. His research interests include autonomic
computing, biologically-inspired computing, collaborative computing, open
source, programming languages, software robustness and user interface design.