[Linux-aus] Update: GPLv3 Symposium - Tridge is coming

[Pia Waugh <greebo@pipka.org>]

Hey all,

next updated on GPL3 conference :) Tridge will be there!

Cheers,
Pia

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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:41:29 +1000
From: David Vaile <d.vaile@unsw.edu.au>
To: unlockingip@austlii.edu.au, cyberlpc@bondi.austlii.edu.au
Reply-To: David Vaile <d.vaile@unsw.edu.au>
Subject: [unlockingip] GPLv3 Symposium - Internationally recognised developer Tridge to speak at 

Dear Colleagues,

One of Australia's most recognised Linux developers, Dr Andrew "Tridge"
Tridgell, is lined up as a keynote presenter at the Cyberspace Law and
Policy Centre's symposium on "the General Public License (GPL) version 3
and Australia" at UNSW Law Faculty 30 November 2006. (The event aims to
assist participants to contribute final submissions in relation to the
last draft of Version 3, particularly in relation to issues affecting
its Australian application.) http://www.cyberlawcentre.org/2006/gpl/

Tridge, as he is known in the software community, has been recently
applying his attention to the evolution of the core GPL licence's next
version. The GPL's viral nature has been associated with the success of
the free and/or open source software movement. 

Dr Tridgell has earned international recognition in the IT industry for
his development of Samba, a standard open source network file system
which interacts with Windows. He is also the co-inventor of the RSYNC
algorithm, a core file manipulation utility used, for instance, by
AustLII.edu.au to handle the massive file management tasks behind their
data repository of primary legal materials. His other software includes
rproxy, ldb and JitterBug.

In 2003 the Bulletin named him as "Smartest person in the ICT sector",
on top of a list of 100. Andrew Tridgell's recent engagements have
included time with IBM and in 2005, he was the second Open Source
Development Labs Fellow for a year. 

In January 2006, the Free Software Foundation awarded Tridgell its 2005
FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software, for his work on Samba,
the Linux kernel, and rsync. Tridgell was considered to have furthered
an important goal of the free software movement since the founding of
GNU, analyzing ways for free software to interact with widespread
proprietary systems (particularly communication protocols and formats)
to allow people to more easily move away from those systems.

We are naturally excited that he will be participating in this event!

See his entry in Wikipedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tridgell> (where some of this was
sourced) and home page http://www.samba.org/~tridge/ for further
details.

Regards,
David

David Vaile
Executive Director
Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, UNSW

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Cheers,
Pia

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