(private replies to skip@pobox.com, please) Please forgive the off-topic post. I am helping to organize (read: sort of got roped into) the May Technology Executives Roundtable here in Evanston, Illinois. The May 28th TER meeting is scheduled to have a panel discussion on "Profiting from Open Source Software". I have lined up one panelist, Rob Page, CEO and co-founder of Zope, but a couple other possibilities have fallen through. I am looking for two or three more people to be on the panel. They need not be from the Python community. Meetings typically run from about 6pm to 9pm, begin with a half hour of networking, followed by brief presentations from the panelists, the usual rubber chicken dinner, then Q&A from the floor. Attendance is usually in the 50-person range, split pretty evenly between techies and business types. If you or someone you know with substantial experience building a business based on open source software (whatever definition of that loaded phrase you care to use) are or will be in the Chicago area on or about the 28th, please let me know or pass this note along. For general info about TER, visit their website at <http://www.ter1.com/>. Thanks, Skip