PENSACOLA - ITGULFCOAST, an Information Technology Association for the Gulf Coast, will hold their regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 in Downtown Pensacola.

 

Jason Corey, who is a Client Executive for Red Hat Inc/,  will explain how and why the open source model builds higher quality, more secure and more easily integrated software. Jason will also discuss why, with increasingly constrained budgets, companies and government organizations alike are moving away from proprietary models to the open source model.

Have you spotted a bug in software and wanted to dig into the code to fix it? Or have you ever worked with a software that if you could only have access to the source code you ‘tweek’ it a little to better fit the needs of your organization? Advocates of open source believe that the benefits of Open Source do not just include bug fixing and customization but improved security, improved translation, avoidance of ‘lock-in’ and let’s not forget the even important lower cost.

Jason will share the history and the future of open source code. He will also provide real world of examples of how open source is being used by organizations of all sizes and types and why open source vendors like Red Hat have experienced and expect to continue to experience incredible growth.

 

About the Speaker

Jason P. Corey manages Red Hat's Department of the Navy and Combatant Commands business.  Mr. Corey has over 11 years of experience in the technology sector where he has held consultative sales and management positions at large companies including Dell and Sprint. Jason has an undergraduate degree from the University of South Florida in Communications and is currently completing a Masters of Business Administration degree at the Keller Graduate School of Management. Mr. Corey resides in Trinity, Florida with his family.

Red Hat, Inc. is an S&P 500 company in the free and open source software sector and and a major Linux distribution vendor. 
 
Meeting Details

This meeting will be held at the Gulf Coast Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PSC Downtown) conference room on the 4th floor. 418 W. Garden Street, Pensacola FL. The meeting starts at 11:30 am and ends at 1:00 pm. The cost for lunch is $12 per person. The fee to attend without lunch is $5 per person.

Register for this event online. Payment can be made by cash or check (made out to ITGULFCOAST.ORG) at the event or during online registration with Paypal. No-shows should send payment after the event via Paypal to payments@itgulfcoast.org.

The meeting is open to all ITGULFCOAST members, guests and to the public. For questions contact ITGULFCOAST program chair Hazel Wiggington at 850-516-5546.

The Information Technology Association of the Gulf Coast (itgulfcoast.org) is a not for profit organization. The group's mission is to link people and organizations in the technology community to promote communication, collaboration, education and economic development. For more information on how to get involved, visit www.itgulfcoast.org.