[FreeGeek] SFU COSTAR

[Jack Bates]

Jack here, nice to meet you all tonight!

I'm taking a special research topics course to develop open source
software at SFU with Prof. Rob Cameron. We meet on Fridays at SFU Surrey
for open source presentations and discussion.

Prof. Cameron is founding a company to develop his high speed SIMD XML
processing research under open source licenses. He's collaborating with
patent lawyers at IBM and the FSF, so he's interested in open source
ventures.

Prof. Cameron is also starting COSTAR, an open source lab at SFU:
http://costar.sfu.ca/

Finally, Prof. Cameron worked on the BC Public Interest Research Group
constitution when it was written in the 70s? 80s? So a sympathetic
activist.

Would be really rad if Scott, David, and folks who can make it could
give a presentation sometime this semester. Perhaps we could show the
FreeGeek video, talk about experiences at FreeGeek, talk about legal
issues related to organizing technology in public interest, etc.

If you could make it to SFU (Surrey Central SkyTrain station) 3:30 one
Friday in November, I'll let Prof. Cameron know. Is the Momentum article
online? Perhaps we could link to it in the announcement/abstract of the
presentation?

Best wishes everyone! Jack
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