Figures. The ONE thursday I have a conflict (this month only) - oh well, I'll shoot for attending the April meeting. Below for more.
--- Ken D'Ambrosio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [And this time, I'll even send it from an address the > listserv knows. > *sigh* Please excuse if you get a duplicate.] > > Hello! Below is the e-mail I've been trying to send out > for some time; > sadly, I wanted to include a schedule of upcoming meeting > topics/speakers, but -- ah, the naivete -- I now know > that such things > require substantial bulldogging to accomplish. So, below > is a TENTATIVE > list of meeting topics, and anyone who's interested in > giving chats for > ones not already taken are implored to contact me. > Anyway, back to your > regularly-scheduled e-mail: > > Howdy, all. Just wanted to let you guys know that, after > much debate, > consideration, and checking of calendars, it looks like > the third > Thursday of each month is the way to fly. I'm sure that > that'll > conflict with someone... so I'm sorry. BUT, it seems to > conflict with > the minimum number of people who responded, and -- unlike > the fourth > week of the month -- won't conflict with year-end > holidays. > [Thanksgiving's the FOURTH Thursday of November; I > checked.] > I've also firmed things up with Martha's, and they're > glad to have us back. > > Here's the current schedule for upcoming meetings: > > March 17 (that's this coming Thursday): > - General LUGness. Come as you are, and we'll discuss > the why's, > wherefores, and so forth. > See the end of this e-mail for a (very) rough idea of > how the > structure of meetings will go. > > April 21: MythTV (an open-source, Linux-based TiVo-like > system) > - I've got some goodies from the EFF for this, and would > invite anyone > who's set up a > system to tell us how it works. Are enough people > familiar with it > that we'd consider > having some sort of more formal installfest on a > weekend? haven't set it up, but MALU in alabama (http://www.malu.org) have lots of MythTV folks - many with it on a modded xbox (don't ask why - they like it). You might contact them for info. > > May 19: Security. > - I'd like to do something on security, if anyone's > willing to give a > discussion > about it. Often enough, I see comments to the effect > that security > implemented > without knowing what you're doing isn't really > security... but > security, let's > be honest, isn't trivial to implement with Linux. If > anyone would > care to discuss > their favorite firewall front-ends, or what-have-you, > I'd be very > interested. Don't know if I'll be around, but definitely a topic of interest to me - used to do it even. > > June 16: WINE (www.winehq.com -- a WINdows Emulator) (or Wne Is Not an Emulator) > - Ira Krakow, who helped out at the GNHLUG booth at > LinuxWorld, has kindly > offered chat up WINE. For those that haven't used it, > it does Windows > emulation... kinda. It has a long and storied > history, and can be > interesting to get running. Ira's writing a book > aoubt WINE, and I'd > be very interested to hear what he has to say. Bring > your questions, or > your successes! Wish I had that now - trying to get H&R Block TaxCut to run under it - installs, but complains about not being able to load a file (exact message is: "File Open Failed. File=.//tcedtion.04 (see WinFileReadImpl::open())" I'm running the latest wine, compiled from cvs. > > July 21: New user meeting! > - Meet and greet. New users are -always- welcome, of > course, but one > theme expressed at > our previous meeting in February was that we should > have an > occasional meeting where > new users, and their concerns -- and perhaps even > their systems, if > they're willing > to lug 'em in -- are the focus. > > Aug 18: IP (not the networking kind) issues, both > historical and > contemporary. > - I hope to be able to drag a specific speaker in for > this that I met at > the GNHLUG booth at LinuxWorld, but haven't been able > to firm up a date. Especially with the effort for patents in EU - good topic. > > Generally speaking, we usually get together at 6:00 p.m. > at Martha's for > some chow; this is entirely informal, and everyone is > welcome to attend, > or skip, as they see fit. Around 7:00, we filter up to > one of Martha's > function rooms, where a more formal meeting occurs; we'll > have a Q&A > time, and usually some topic of discussion for us to > expound on. New > users/list lurkers are invited to make themselves known; > I can't speak > for anyone else, but I'm terrible with faces and names, > so please feel > free to introduce yourself even if you aren't new -- > given the sporadic > attendance, it's likely you'll be new to at least a fair > chunk of the folks. > > My next notifications of upcoming meetings, I promise, > will be with a > bit more advance warning. Trying to fit everything > together for an > initial schedule was a bit on the daunting side. Great lineup - hope it works out! If not, "flexibility is the key to Air Power" (Penguins don't fly - but Linux does [see recent Linux Journal - Linux on Spacecraft]) > > Thanks! > > -Ken > jeff _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
