Lansing Chamber Of Commerce Open source presentation
Jeffrey Utter
utterjef@zelda.cl.msu.edu
Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:44:28 -0400 (EDT)
On 9 Jul 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Mark Szidik <szidikm@mlc.lib.mi.us> writes:
>
> > Ben: do you know how we can reach Linus, and do you know if he is
> > willing to do this kind of presentaiton?
>
> I've heard of Linus speaking at trade shows like Comdex, but I
> don't think he does small events. I mean, I don't *know* that
> that's his policy, but I suspect it is. At any rate, his email
> address is torvalds@transmeta.com.
>
> There's not much about him on the web, besides these two pages:
> http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~torvalds/
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/linus/
>
> OTOH it probably wouldn't be hard to get ESR if you're willing to
> make it really easy for him. He has a list of ground rules on
> his webpage:
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/travelrules.html
>
> --
> "Ho ho ho. I _so_ enjoy making a fool out of myself."
> --Linus, on Christmas Day, 2000
I know someone that works with Linus and I could try and see if he is
willing to help convince hime to speak at your thing.
Jeff U.