[ale] [Author] Visit to Atl

[Adrin]

Count me in..  I would be very interested..    Think he will do a book signing.  
That wasn't to geek was it?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of Danny
> Cox
> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 11:13 AM
> To: habieb at myrealbox.com; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] [Author] Visit to Atl
> 
> 
> Harold,
> 
> On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 16:28, H. Bieber wrote:
> > I received a call from Addison Wesley (they provide books for Installfest and 
> such) that Arnold Robbins (maintainer of "gawk" and author of several books, 
> including "Unix in a Nutshell" and his newest book "Linux Programming: The 
> Fundamentals" to be released in April) will be in the US in May visiting 2 
> cities, one of which is Atlanta. He resides in Israel. While in Atlanta he will 
> be doing a couple author events. AW has asked if we (ale) are interested in 
> hosting him for an event, I am pretty sure I can secure the Auditorium at the 
> law school for this event, BUT what I need is a good idea as to how many people 
> would be interested in this and would actually attend. I think the tentative 
> week for his visit to Atlanta would be the week of May 18th.
> 
> 	Another data point: he began working on awk/gawk while attending and
> working at Emory....
> 
> -- 
> kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
> medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.
> 
> Danny
> 
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