Name: Speakers Session: Open Source Licensing
Start: 2015-01-21T18:00:00-08:00
End: 2015-01-21T21:00:00-08:00
Location: SAP Labs - Building 1 - Cafe

Please join us for our first speakers session of 2015! As usual, we will again have 2 speakers. The first talk will be around Open Source licensing practices whereas the second one will contribute with a perspective from an OSS practitioner.

Use this meet up to learn more about licensing considerations of OSS projects and chat with like-minded people. We will obviously have beer & pizza!

The Agenda

• 5:00PM - 6:30PM: Pre-Event Board games/Card games social

• 6:00PM - 6:30PM: Networking with Beer & Pizza

• 6:30PM - 6:45PM: Gwyn Murray: Open Source Licensing: Discussion of Current Issues

• 6:45PM - 7:15PM: Q&A with Gwyn

• 7:15PM - 7:30PM: Martin Winter: An inside look from the Open Source community: A look to Open Source Licenses and how to supporting your favorite project

• 7:30PM - 8:00PM: Q&A with Martin

• 8:00PM - 9:00PM: Final Networking

The Talks

Gwyn Murray (Matau Legal Group): Open Source Licensing: Discussion of Current Issues

Gwyn will provide a summary of open source licenses and license compliance practices, as well as considerations in contributing to open source projects, followed by a Q&A where she will respond to your questions on these topics. Please find Gwyn's brief bio here: http://bit.ly/1wb6dWr

Martin Winter (NetDEF): An inside look from the Open Source community: A look to Open Source Licenses and how to supporting your favorite project

As a full-time Open Source contributor, Martin Winter shows the problems with from the Open Source side. Why are specific licenses used, how and why support your favorite project(s) and what are the main challenges for the Open Source community. Martin Winter works full-time for a non-profit company (NetDEF) on Open Source. Most of his work is on Quagga (Routing, see http://www.quagga.net and www.opensourcerouting.net), but he also spends a lot of his time advocating Open Source software in the Networking community.

Location

SAP campus in Palo Alto - in the Cafeteria of Building 1. Feel free to bring your laptops, we will provide seating & tables.

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