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Laurent Gharda, (Presentation Title TBA)Presentation details TBA. As COO of Open Country, Laurent oversees engineering, marketing, professional services, human resources and operations. Prior to joining Open Country, Laurent served as COO of eCode, VP of marketing of Phoenix Technologies, VP of marketing of Award Software, President and founder of QualSoft, VP of Sales of Veritas Software and spent ten successful years at Hewlett-Packard in a variety of senior business development and marketing positions. Laurent earned a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley and a French National Baccalaureate in philosophy and modern languages. Laurent is the sole inventor of US Patent 6,009,520 and co-inventor of US Patents 6,560,702 and 6,564,318 addressing the manageability of application software, system software and enabling firmware in computer systems and embedded devices. He serves on the board of directors of CodeWeavers.Free Stuff & DiscountsWe will be having a door prize drawing to give away free stuff at the meeting, such as books and T-shirts. Plus all PenLUG members can receive a 30% off discount code from O'Reilly! Free books are supplied by O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall, and/or Apress (while supplies last). If you win one, please add your book reviews to our LinuxBookReviews page. If your company would like to contribute free or discount stuff to give out at PenLUG meetings, please mail officers@penlug.org to let us know. | |||||||||