****************************************************************************
THIS MESSAGE IS BROUGHT TO YOU AS A VALUED SUBSCRIBER TO OPEN MAGAZINE.
PLEASE NOTE THAT OPEN MAGAZINE IS A FACILITATOR, NOT A SPONSOR, OF THIS
MESSAGE.
****************************************************************************


On April 18, 2001 OSDN, the Open Source Development Network, in
collaboration with BRIE, Berkley Roundtable on the International 
Economy,
will hold a one-day symposium at the Radisson Miyako Hotel in San
Francisco,
California to examine and debate the Open Source Movement and how it is
challenging current notions of competition, collaboration and 
intellectual
property in businesses across the globe.  The will be three major areas 
of
discussion and the panelists leading them will be representatives from 
the
Open Source Community, academia, intellectual property law, the 
investment
community, government and the IT industry.   Please join us for what 
will
be
a lively and informative debate around a disruptive movement in IT that
has
profound implications for traditional businesses.

Featured speakers include:

Openening Keynote:
- Douglas C. Engelbart, Founder Director, The Bootstrap Institute

Panel 1:  Cooperation and Collaboration
- Brian Behlendorf, Founder and CTO, CollabNet
- Jeremy Allison, VA Linux Engineer and co-lead of the Samba Team
- Russ Nelson, President, Crynwr Software, Open Source Initiative Board
Member

Panel 2:  Intellectual Property:
- Mitchell Baker, Chief Lizard Wrangler, Mozilla.org
- Neil Abrams, Counsel, Internet Division, IBM
- Robin Gross, Staff Attorney (Fair Use and Intellectual Property),
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Panel 3:  Business Models
- David Henkel-Wallace, co-founder of Cygnus and Founder; CEO of Xembu
- Jim Gutierrez, R&D Section Manager, LaserJet Business, HP
- Eric Allman, CTO and co-founder, Sendmail, Inc.
- Larry Augustin, Founder and CEO, VA Linux Systems, Inc.

Closing Keynote:
- Ghazi Benothman, Associate Analyst, Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown

For more information visit http://www.osdn.com/conferences/brie or call 
us
at 978-635-5300 ext. 211.



----------------------------------------------------------------------------
This message was brought to you as a subscriber to Open Magazine.  To 
stop
receiving third party messages facilitated by Open Magazine, send an 
email
to openmagazine-sponsors-request@lists.openmagazine.net with the line:

unsubscribe openmagazine-sponsors

in the body of the email.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------