[GLLUG] National Youth Leadership Forum

Jeff Lawton Jeff at idealso.com
Fri Jun 9 16:15:29 EDT 2006


Idealso Internal and GLLUG,

I was nominated by someone a few months ago for the National Youth 
Leadership Forum on Technology ( http://www.nylf.org/tech ) and I have 
decided to attend. It takes place in "Silicon Valley" (San Jose), 
California, and will have the following speakers giving key notes:

Blake Ross- Architect of Firefox
Sophie Vandebroek - chief tecnology officer and president, Xerox 
Innovation Group for Xeroc Corporation.
Bob Rice - Founder/CEO of FBI (Four Bars Intertainmaint).
Tommy Tallarico - President of Tommy Tallarico Studios. Most successful 
company dedicated to music       composition, sound design, and voice 
over production for video games
Jack Wall - Composer of music for video games.


"Site Discoveries" (field trips):

    * Affymetrix, Inc.
    * Google Inc.
    * IBM Almaden Research Center
    * Intel Corporation
    * Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    * NASA Ames Research Center
    * Palm, Inc.
    * Redback Networks Inc.
    * TiVo Inc.
    * SBC Laboratories
    * Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    * Yahoo! Inc.


I will add more information as I get it. The intent of this email to to 
round up questions, comments, etc that you might want voiced there. 
There is an opportunity to speak there for 50 minutes; I am considering 
applying to talk about open source. What sort of things do you think 
they might want to know? I already have an Open Source speech guideline 
that Jeff once used, but perhaps you have something you feel 
particularly passionate about, or even something focus on specifically. 
It might also be helpful to know that most of the people going there 
aren't open-sourcers, or at least aren't linux users. I found this data 
out after taking a survey of attendies; I was one of 5 who used linux. 
(Over 400 participants).

Any suggestions you could give are helpful.

Thanks,
Karl




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Jeff Lawton
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