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.