I’m speaking next Tuesday (15th April 2008) at the Manchester Free Software about my geeky web comic, Everybody Loves Eric Raymond. Apparently people are still interested in it even though it hasn’t been updated since December! Hooray!
It’ll be a bit of a mix of the two talks I’ve done before on ELER, so some stuff about the history of the comic and how I make it, plus some ranting about free software, free markets and leaders.
I was asked by the then organiser (and my friend) Matt Lee who was then extraordinarily renditioned to North America with his new wife, leaving the new organisers to pick up the pieces. Luckily most of the pieces were found and it’s all go, though I do now appear to be talking about my new Rails hosting company too and my name is spelt differently. If there is time, I’ll talk about some of the stuff we’re doing at Brightbox with Free Software.
Talk starts at 7pm at the Manchester DDA. More details on the Manchester Free Software website.
I’m talking about Ruby on Rails at the West Yorkshire Linux User Group on Monday 11th June 2007. I’ll be covering what Rail is, how it works, and how you use it. Starts at 1900hrs at the E.C Stoner (snigger) Building at the University of Leeds. There follows a talk about Sun’s ZFS file system by Tom Hall, then we retire to The Victoria Hotel pub for some real ale and whatnot.
John Leach is a human being living in Leeds, UK.