Forwarded from a mail to ILUG Chennai
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I would be delighted to run sessions in LUGs, and/or short seminars, if interest arises.
I'll be based in Chennai, and for sure I would like to spend some time in Auroville.
Do you have any contact with the "bunch of wireless, tech and art enthusiasts" (sounds very nice!) there?
I'm in India to get a first impression of the FOSS and ICT scene there, so I would like to move around too.
If there is opportunity to meet FOSS people or groups, I'm available to come to Mumbai too (actually, I would like to :-) ).
BTW, I'm almost to release two opensource channel drivers for Asterisk, one for driving gsm cellphones and one for driving the Skype client. So, I can speak or teach about the channels, about Asterisk development, or about opensource software development at large. I can also teach and speak about the business planning and evaluation of ICT and FOSS ventures, but maybe that's not so interesting to a LUG audience ;-).
Following is a short bio and attached is a cv.
----- Giovanni Maruzzelli (born 1964) has 15+ years of experience with open source, industrial grade operations, and ICT startups (both at the investor or investee side). Industry experience includes publishing engines, open source messaging and networking, document indexing and retrieval systems, unified messaging.
Giovanni primary skill is producing solutions that are "reality based" and business wise.
A member of the worldwide open source community for over twelve years, Giovanni is the proud owner of the Mysql license n.1, and as a speaker, trainer and magazines writer he was instrumental to the introduction of Internet, Unix, Linux and open source to the Italian technical public.
In the beginning of the Internet era, Giovanni was one of the founders of Italia Online, the most popular Italian portal and consumer ISP, and architect of its Internet technologies - www.iol.it Then supervisor of Internet operations and architect of the first engine for paid access to www.ilsole24ore.com, the most read financial newspaper in Italy and to its databases (migrated from mainframe).
After that, he was CEO of venture capital funded Matrice, developing Telemail unified messaging and multi language phone access to email (Text To Speech), and CTO of incubator funded Open4, an open source managed applications provider.
As a partner In3 fund Giovanni has often evaluated the technical and financial soundness of submitted business plans.
Then he was for two years in Serbia as Internet and Telecommunication Investment Expert for World Bank - IFC.
Giovanni is now consulting and is based in Milan, Italy.
His email address: gmaruzz at celliax.org
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