Tom Hoffman to Discuss SchoolTool and Open Source Project Management at Geek Dinner Wednesday, March 21st
Posted by Jack
The next Geek Dinner on Wednesday, March 21st, will feature a presentation by Tom Hoffman, who’s been at the center of Providence Geeks since its inception. Tom also gets points for having the best title of any presentation yet:
SchoolTool: Managing an International, Philanthropically Funded Open Source Project from a Victorian in Elmwood
How did a former Providence school teacher end up working for a South African entrepreneur/philanthropist/cosmonaut, managing programmers in Lithuania and users in Nepal? SchoolTool is a project to create free
administrative software for schools around the world, written in
Python and Zope 3, funded by Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. We’ll
take a look at the software itself as well as the unique advantages and
challenges of free software philanthropy.
March 16th, 2007 10:41
great topic. see you there.
March 16th, 2007 10:51
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March 16th, 2007 11:39
I’ll be there. Look forward to it!
Best,
Jeff
March 18th, 2007 15:48
I can hardly wait to hear this presentation. Tom, I’ll be there rooting for ya!
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