[Imc-makerspace] Free Reflections/Projections Conference, starting on Friday

[Colten Jackson]

""Reflections/Projections Conference starts on Friday and runs through
Sunday. The line-up for this year is shown here:

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2011/speakers.php

and here's an example of one talk that people interested in the open source
software community might appreciate:

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2011/speaker_info.php?sid=23
Jon 'maddog' Hall Executive Director, Linux International
[image: Jon 'maddog' Hall]
Presenting: Project Cauã: Creating jobs, Saving The Environment And Making
Computers Easier To UseFor the past forty years* industry has been moving
computer
support further away from the end user while simultaneously making
computers harder to use, building in obsolescence, wasting electricity,
and making computers even more of a black box.

Project Cauã will make computers easier to use, reduce the
amount of electricity usage, create gratis wireless bubbles over
large urban areas, and allow super-computing grids of low cost,
create millions of high-tech new jobs world-wide all without
costing the taxpayer a single penny**

P.S.  As a second example, some may also be interested in the talk by Ben
Kamens <http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2011/speaker_info.php?sid=63> of
Khan Academy.

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Thanks David.
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