Linux Demonstration, April 6, 2009

English Open Chat
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I am a member of the Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS) in Connecticut (USA) and the Linux special interest group (SIG) leader. DACS is a computer club of over 200 members that meet monthly for a general meeting which includes a presentation from vendors and enthusiasts. The Linux SIG meets on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at the DACS Resource Center.

On April 6th (2009) I am involved with a demonstration on the Linux desktop.

The general meeting start with a Q&A section before the main presentation and after the presentation we usually have a raffle of some items.

Since this is a presentation on Linux, I was wondering if Novell or openSUSE does or could provide materials to raffle off. Logically, the next question would be if so, then whom should I contact?

If anybody is going to be in the area on April 6th, please feel free to drop it, the presentations are open to the public. You can find further information on the website.

Thank you.

Drew

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It sounds interesting and I will likely drop in lol!

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Best thing to do,p.m. kgroneman or rhorstkoetter, i believe they may have contacts that may help

Andy

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If you do and are able to come, we have the “meeting after the meeting” or the “Pig SIG” where we meet at a Chili’s down the street for some informal chatting (and eating :wink: ).

Thank you, I just PM’ed them.

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wish i was close enough to drop in, sounds like an awesome time. make sure to post how it goes over.

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I hope you could share the presentation slides… so we could be view it online

If i were close, i’ll be there…

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I will, though most of the presentation will be live demonstrations of applications.

The idea is that most of the people in the club run Windows and some remember Linux’s origins when it was more command line than anything else.

We’re trying to demonstrate that Linux has moved beyond the command line and that it is a fully capable alternative to Windows or Mac OS X.

I’m meeting with the other person involved with this presentation tomorrow night at the SIG meeting so I may have a better idea after that.

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You have a SIG meeting tonight?

Would it be worth attending?

Let me rephrase that.

It is a 1 1/2 hour drive to Danbury for me, if there is something going on that might be of interest I would most certainly love to attend.

However I would hate to drive that far, if it’s going to be a quick 15 or 20 minute get together.

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The SIG meeting is tomorrow night (Wednesday).

Most SIG meetings run 7-9 although mine runs 7:30-9:30, so the meat of activity happens between 7:30 and 9 but has gone to 10 or 10:30 when things really get interesting!

It’s pretty informal overall, with a few regulars and some new people that am hoping to make into regulars. Last time was close to 8+ people.

It usually isn’t too technical or dripping in jargon yet when it does get technical we have a few good brains to pick!

Tomorrow night I’m going to be presenting on Xfce. It’s more to introduce Xfce and see some of the different settings available.

We’ve done presentations such as installing TrueCrypt when no binaries are available, using Wine and CrossOver, comparing digiKam and F-Spot (of course my hard drive crashed that morning, but that’s another story…), installing Linux on a USB pen drive, retrieving files off an encrypted drive (the one that crashed right before the picture managers demonstration), grsynch and rsynch, LTSP, and others I can’t think of right now.