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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - MAY 2005 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S MAY 2005 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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When: THURSDAY, May 19th, 2005 (3rd Thursday)
Where: Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
Downtown Center
104 Washington Street
South West Corner of Wall Street Area
Downtown, New York City
Time: 6:15 PM - 6:25 PM Registration
6:25 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
Answers and Current Events
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation
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Topic: Getting Your Manager to Approve Open Source
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Speaker: Maria Winslow,
Author of "The Practical Manager's Guide to Open Source",
Contributing Editor, LinuxWorld Magazine.
INTRODUCTIONS:
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The media keeps publishing articles about the pros and cons of
Open Source in the enterprise. Those of us who have been using
Open Source for many years, certainly do know and understand its
many benefits. Nevertheless, it can still remain a challenge to
convince others to allow its use in the enterprise. Unigroup's
May 2005 meeting on "Getting Your Manager to Approve the use of
Open Source" will attempt to directly address this challenge.
In her professional work, Maria Winslow, has been directly
addressing the use of Open Source in the Commercial Enterprise
in recent years, and she will share her insights with us at
this month's Unigroup meeting.
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MAIN PRESENTATION:
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Getting Your Manager to Approve Open Source
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The grass roots efforts of system administrators have brought
Linux and other open source software into the enterprise,
frequently under the radar. But to take the next step in open
source advocacy at work, you need to speak the language of
management and convince them from their point of view. We will
discuss the right and wrong ways to present your case, why your
audience makes all the difference (technical manager versus
non-technical business owner), how to really hook them with proof
of cost savings, and two secret weapons in your quest to promote
open source.
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Web Resources:
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Maria's Book: "The Practical Manager's Guide to Open Source"
http://windows-linux.com/practicalOpenSource
Maria @ LinuxWorld Magazine: Practical Open Source
http://winslow.linuxworld.com
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Speaker Biography:
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As an open source business analyst, Maria Winslow assists clients
in understanding the technical and budgetary impact open source
software will have on their computing environments. Her recent
book, "The Practical Manager's Guide to Open Source", guides IT
directors and system administrators through the process of finding
practical uses for open source that will integrate seamlessly into
existing infrastructures, as well as understanding the costs
and savings. Maria is a frequent speaker on the budgetary impact
of open source, and is a contributing editor at LinuxWorld
Magazine.
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Giveaways:
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O'Reilly has been kind enough to provide us with some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings.
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR has been kind
enough to provide us with some of their books, which we will
continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings.
Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.
Note: The chances tend to be about 1 in 5, that any attendee of
our meeting will walk away with a fairly valuable giveaway
(ie. most books are valued between $30 and $60)!
** We also received a pile of Sun Solaris 10 DVDs from our
friends at the NYC Sun Office.
First dibs will go to attendees of our Solaris 10
meeting who did not receive one directly from Sun. We
gave out a pile of these DVDs at last month's meeting.
** Maria will also be bringing a copy of her book to raffle off.
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Fee Schedule:
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00
Student Yearly Membership: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with ID): $ 5.00
Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes
"wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled
vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed,
pasta, etc), cookies, bottled water and assorted beverages.
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Directions:
Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
Downtown Center
104 Washington Street
Wall Street Area
Downtown, New York City
This building is located on the West side of the street, the
second building north of Rector Street. Cross Streets:
Between Rector (South) and Carlisle (North) Streets.
Our meeting location is in the Lower West Corner of Downtown,
North of the Battery Tunnel, South of the Downtown Hotel,
East of West Street, and West of Greenwich Street. Walking West
on Rector Street from Broadway, you pass Church, Greenwich then
Washington Streets.
There are multiple blocks of parking lots right there, between
Washington and Greenwich Streets, starting at the Battery Tunnel
and extending North for a number of blocks.
Nearest mass transit stations, in order, are the '1/9' (Rector
Street), 'R/W' (Rector Street) and the '4/5' (Wall Street).
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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!
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I hope to see you all at our next meeting!
-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist (at) unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org
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