Dear Ivan,

Nice to know that you are willing to speak at the meet. But I guess our dear friend Anurag is stuck with Windows (Incredimail).

Coming straight to the point, we have two skeapers.

1. Mr. Harsh Busa - /* Blog's, etc. */ 2. Mr. Ivan Bayross - /* Technical Aspects of RDBMS */ - Would love to also have a breif (about 5 mins) on commercial aspect of RDBMS, for example why dont people prefer to use Postgres against Oracle (Just an example - no flames please).

Regards.

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:42:09 +0530, "Anurag Patel" anurag@hbcse.tifr.res.in said:

Hi Amish,

Mr. Ivan wrote in to me, and he is interested in speaking at the glug meet. I'm forwarding a copy of his mail to you.

anurag

---------- Forwarded Message ----------- From: "Ivan Bayross" ivan@ivanbayross.com To: harsh.busa@gmail.com Cc: anurag@hbcse.tifr.res.in Sent: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:05:08 +0530 Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Meet

Hi All,

I'm responding specifically to this mail. Maybe I can help here:

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:20:48 +0530, "Harsh Busa" harsh.busa@gmail.com

said:

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Hi all

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what about the lug meet ... why dont we meet somewhere within the

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perimeters of the city ? how about IIT / MET / VJTI / Someplace that

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can be arranged.

  Nice suggesstion Harsh but there is a major problem. It is very

  easy to say that someone will speak on something. Finally on the

  day of the meeting most of the speakers usually vanish. Finally

  Either Dr. Nagarjuna or Prof. Shah come to the resuce and speak

  about general topics. Few people who come are very bored listening

  to the same topics (actually no topics). Get me people who will

  speak and who can do something better than vanishing. List down the

  topics one wants to listen and then let someone pickup a topic from

  there and speak on that.

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My name is Ivan Bayross, I have reasonable Linux skills (nothing overly hot actually). I'm will willing to speak. I promise Amish Munshi that I will not vanish on the day of the meet.

I haven't really met either Harsh or Amish so I guess this mail maybe a bit of a surprise. Never attended any of the lug meets either that may sound scary.

But, it seems someone's looking for speakers who won't vanish on the day of the meeting and is (hopefully) willing to take the risk that the audience will not vanish after my talk at the lug, I'm your man.

I have a modest RDBMS background with Linux as the O/s of choice and I'm spent many man years in commercial application development. My current core focus area of interest is commercial application development using the Open Source framework and Open Source tools and RDBMS.

I'd love to talk about this either specifically from the technical perspective or from the employment opportunities perspective or both.

Should either of you have a list of topics on which you would like someone to speak about in Linux. send me a copy. If my skills cover any of then I'll be happy to respond.

I hope this helps and I hope the audience does not vanish after my chat.

Regards,

Ivan Bayross

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