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and here's an example of one talk that people interested in the open source software community might appreciate:<br><br><a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2011/speaker_info.php?sid=23" target="_blank">http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2011/speaker_info.php?sid=23</a><br>
<h1>Jon 'maddog' Hall</h1>
                        <h3>Executive Director, Linux International</h3>
                        
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                                <h2>Presenting: Project Cauă: Creating jobs, Saving The Environment And Making Computers Easier To Use</h2>For the past forty years* industry has been moving computer<br>
support further away from the end user while simultaneously making<br>
computers harder to use, building in obsolescence, wasting electricity,<br>
and making computers even more of a black box.<br>
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      Project Cauă will make computers easier to use, reduce the<br>
      amount of electricity usage, create gratis wireless bubbles over<br>
      large urban areas, and allow super-computing grids of low cost,<br>
      create millions of high-tech new jobs world-wide all without<br>
      costing the taxpayer a single penny**<br><br>P.S.  As a second example, some may also be interested in the talk by <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2011/speaker_info.php?sid=63" target="_blank">Ben Kamens</a> of Khan Academy.<br>

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</div></div></div></div></div>Thanks David.