[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] TONIGHT: June PLUG Meeting: Open Hardware and why it matters

[Michael Dexter]

Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement

Who: John Hawley
What: Open Hardware and why it matters - MinnowBoard MAX case study
Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level)
When: Thursday, June 4th, 2015 at 7pm
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom
Stream: http://pdxlinux.org/live

Open Hardware is starting to change the way the world works, giving more 
people access to customizable hardware, and giving more power to smaller 
entities.  I intend to give a general overview of open hardware, 
focusing on the MinnowBoard MAX, and use it as a case study of what 
people are doing with it and why the open hardware is important to the 
space it's entering.

John 'Warthog9' Hawley led the system administration team on kernel.org 
for nearly a decade, leading a team including four other administrators. 
His other exploits include working on Syslinux, OpenSSI, a caching 
Gitweb, and patches to bind to enable GeoDNS. He's the author of PXE 
Knife, a set of interfaces around common utilities and diagnostics tools 
needed by an average systems administrator, as well as SyncDiff(erent) a 
state-full file synchronizer and file transfer mechanism. He currently 
works for Intel working on Open Hardware, and the Minnowboard. In his 
free time he enjoys cooking extravagant meals and watching bad movies.

Calagator Page: http://calagator.org/events/1250468146

Many will head to the Lucky Lab at 1945 NW Quimby St. after the meeting.

Rideshares Available

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See you there!

Michael Dexter
PLUG Volunteer