| Who: |
Tim O’Reilly (bio) |
| Slides: |
Tim’s slides are available here in PDF, HTML and PowerPoint formats |
| Writeups: |
A writeup has been done by Mike McKay. Some photographs. |
| When: |
Monday 23rd June, 2003 7pm start; 6:30pm doors |
| Cost: | Free entry although preregistration is required and places are limited. You do not have to be a UKUUG member to attend Registration is now closed |
On June 23rd 2003, in conjunction with O’Reilly, UKUUG
is proud to be hosting Tim O’Reilly, in London.
Tim is founder and President of the widely acclaimed
O’Reilly and Associates.
The Open Source Paradigm Shift: Lamp (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. Perl,
Python) as the ‘Intel inside’ of the next generation of computer
applications.
The computer industry has gone through a sea change in the past few years.
The killer applications of the web era turned out not to be PC-based
software packages like the web browser, but web hosted applications like
google, mapquest and amazon.com. These applications are built on top of
Linux and Apache, yet they are themselves fiercely proprietary. But what
would most developers do with their source code? These massive systems are
valuable for their data as much as for their programs. And by opening up
XML web services APIs to that data, the most innovative of these sites are
creating new opportunities for hackers to “scratch their own itch.”
One of
the greatest challenges for open source in the next few years is to
understand and adapt to the paradigm shift implicit in network computing,
and to shed the legacy thinking of the desktop era.
Registration for this event is free and open to all (registration form).
Registrations must be confirmed (confirmation form) and can be cancelled
at any point after confirmation (cancellation form)
Acknowledgements:
Thanks to Josette and the rest of O’Reilly UK for organising Tim’s visit.
UKUUG is grateful to the
Department of Computing,
at City University for
providing accommodation and to David Dodson of the
ACM British Chapter
for local organisation.
Thanks also to Tushar Joshi of LONIX
for their assistance with publicity and other tasks.
About UKUUG
The UKUUG was formed to represent users of UNIX and Open Systems in the
United Kingdom. It uniquely caters for the needs of people in this area
and, being totally funded by membership subscriptions, is completely
independent of specific hardware and software vendors. All profits are
used to further the activities of the organisation
(more details about UKUUG).
UKUUG members get a 21.5% discount on all
O’Reilly books.