Title: Department of Computer Science Seminar
Date: Thursday, August 7, 2003
Time: 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]

Speaker: Niels Mache, Co-founder and CEO, Struktur AG

Title: Open Source Publishing

                            Abstract

This session will look at how OpenOffice can be integrated with the open 
source Zope environment to provide powerful and affordable collaborative 
content management. Also Neils will talk about how to combine open source 
software development with commercial for-profit business practices.

Biography:


Niels Mache graduated with a M.Sc. in computer science and technical 
biology from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He was a researcher in 
the Human Genome Project at the Institute of Parallel and Distributed 
High-Performance Systems (IPVR). During his time as a PhD student he 
developed the GENIO bioinformatics suite. He has served as R&D engineer at 
Sony Telecommunication Research and Development Europe. Niels Mache was the 
director of R&D and a founder of delix GmbH, one of the first companies 
worldwide providing professional Linux solutions and distributions. In June 
1999, the company's Linux operations were acquired by Red Hat Inc., USA. He 
was the director of development for Red Hat GmbH, leading the development 
of Red Hat Linux in Germany.

Niels Mache is the CEO and co-founder of struktur AG, the manufacturer of 
icoya OpenContent providing solutions for content & collaboration 
management. Niels Mache has over 50 international publications. He got 
awards from Jugend Forscht, German Academy Software and MasPar Computer.

For more information, 
see:<http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ipvr/bv/personen/mache/niels.html>



URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars03/dept20030807