The Social Media Club of Austin will resume monthly meetings on Thursday, August 23rd, at 6 pm. The first meeting of SMC Austin, since breaking for the summer, will be held at BMC Software’s headquarters located at 10431 Morado Circle, Building 5 / BMC Software Executive Briefing Center, EBC-A and B, Austin, Texas 78759.

The meeting will feature a special presentation entitled:

“Open Source, Social Media, and the Art of Community”

The speaker for the meeting is William Hurley, aka “whurley”, Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software, Inc.

whurley is responsible for creating BMC’s open source agenda and overseeing the company’s participation in various free and open source software communities to advance the adoption and integration of BSM solutions. A technology visionary and holder of 11 important patents, whurley brings 16 years of experience in developing groundbreaking technology. He is the Chairman of the Open Management Consortium, a non-profit organization advancing the adoption, development, and integration of open source systems management. Named an IBM Master Inventor, whurley has received numerous awards including an IBM Pervasive Computing Award and Apple Computer Design Award.

To get an idea of what whurley is up to, check him out on his blog, opensville, or listen to one of the following podcasts: Doing Open Source Right, Open Source is a Journey.

If you want to know where open source, social media, and just about anything else to do with technology and communications are developing, you definitely will want to attend.

It’s necessary for you to r.s.v.p. Seating is limited. To do so, email us at socialmediaclubaustin@gmail.com.