[sllug-members]: May 2006 SLLUG meeting: Meet our Senatorial Candidates

[Marc Christensen]

The Salt Lake Linux Users Group ( SLLUG )
All are invited to the May 2006 SLLUG meeting:

Date: Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
Time: 7:10 PM
Cost: $0.00. Zip. Nada.
Place: Engineering and Mines Classroom Building (EMCB) room 101
Directions: See directions and map URL at the bottom of this page

Agenda:

     * Welcome and a brief "What's new in Linux"
       - Discuss news of interest to the Linux community
       - http://lwn.net/
       - http://lwn.net/daily/
       - http://slashdot.org/
       - http://freshmeat.net/
       - news:comp.os.linux.announce
       - news:utah.linux

     * Meet our Senatorial Candidates -
         Pete Ashdown and Orrin Hatch
        (Senator Hatch will be in Washington and not able to personally
          attend. We hope to have a representative of his attend.)

       The meeting will take the following format:

       We invite each of candidate (or his representative) to take 15 
minutes apiece to present your views on the interaction between 
regulation law, technology, business, and consumers.  We'd also like to 
hear what you would do legislatively in the Senate to influence these 
interactions to the maximum public good.

       We will then open up the reminder of the time (up to an hour) for
      questions and answers from our members.

       Of interest to our  audience would be your views and plans 
concerning:

       1) the current state of the Constitution's Congressional capacity 
to "promote progress in science and the useful arts", and modern 
tensions between progress, prior art, obviousness, the PTO, 
practitioners, patent portfolios, the public, etc.

       2) the outlook for those of us involved in the Information 
Technology and software development industries in a competitive and 
legislated world.

       3) how you/we can protect our careers from being devalued and 
outsourced.

       4) how to steer the legislative environment to foster progress, 
creation, and protections in an enabling technical environment that is 
blurring the lines between consumer and producer.  Impact of DMCA, et 
   al.


Directions/Parking:
Directions - [http://www.map.utah.edu/umaplink/0063.html]
Parking can be found just East of the EMCB building and there is a big
lot just North of the Merrill Engineering building (MEB).
Parking is free after 6:00 (Based on the signs posted. Always check in
case this changes.)


Special thanks go to (in alphabetical order):
- Prof. Lepreau and the U of U for providing the meeting room.
- Universal Systems Inc. http://www.usicomputer.com/
- Various Volunteers


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and general computer users dedicated to the use and development of
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