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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Michael Meeks -
Distinguished Engineer at Novell<BR><FONT face=Arial
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Linux Desktop, present and future"<BR><FONT face=Arial
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light-hearted look at the desktop, from past to present, to Novell's role,
<BR>and vision. Michael will prod some of the new toys coming into the desktop,
<BR>from promising technologies to curvaceous applications, and meditate on the
<BR>wonders of our new on-line world. <BR><BR>Michael will shamelessly plug
whatever project is interesting today, and <BR>attempt to wildly extrapolate the
near future, for people's amusement - to <BR>rob Gascoigne: "I never predict
anything, and I never will!".<BR><BR>Michael is a Christian and enthusiastic
believer in Free software. He very <BR>much enjoys working for Novell where as a
member of the Desktop research</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>team he
has worked on desktop infrastructure and applications, particularly the
<BR>CORBA, Bonobo, Nautilus and accessibility, amongst other interesting things.
<BR><BR>He now works full time leading the OpenOffice.org team. Prior to this he
<BR>worked for Quantel gaining expertise in real time AV editing and playback
<BR>achieved with high performance focused hardware / software
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>UKUUG
and Gold Sponsor Member Novell invite the Linux and </FONT></FONT><FONT
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Source</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>community,
</FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>and
</FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>other
interested parties </FONT></FONT>to an evening talk:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>TIME: 6:45pm
for a 7:00pm start</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>DATE: Wednesday
26th September 2007</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>VENUE:
University College London, Cruciform Building</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>(Lecture
</FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Theatre 2), Gower Street, London, WC1E 6AE.
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<DIV>More information at the UKUUG website: <A
href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/agm2007/"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.ukuug.org/events/agm2007/</FONT></A></DIV>
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