| Doctorow, Moglen to keynote at Red Hat Summit |
Jan. 12, 2006
World-renowned IT visionaries Cory Doctorow, noted author and fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Eben Moglen, chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, will give keynote addresses at the second annual Red Hat Summit in Nashville, Tenn.
The Summit will be held May 30-June 2, 2006 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville. The event will feature a number of well-known industry speakers, hands-on technical workshops, a technology lab, roundtable discussions, and product demonstrations. It also will feature sessions on key open source issues and technologies -- including security, virtualization, and storage, organizers said.
Doctorow currently serves as a fellow with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards, and treaties. In addition to being a science-fiction novelist and accomplished technology writer, Doctorow works extensively with the United Nations and various technical standards bodies.
Moglen is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University is the founder and chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center and serves pro bono as general counsel for the Free Software Foundation.
He was awarded the Electronic Frontier Foundation's 2003 Pioneer Award for contribution to freedom in the electronic society and also serves as a director of the Public Patent Foundation. More information on Moglen's work is available here.
Red Hat Summit 2006 will kick off on Tuesday, May 30, with an address from Red Hat's chairman, president and chief executive, Matthew Szulik.
You can pre-register online, here.
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