In a message dated: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 15:54:30 PST B Mac said: >Hi: > >I'm Bill McNamee and I have just been made aware of the Nashua area LUG >chapter by way of the recent ComputerUserNH publication. I am about as >novice as one can be about Linux, but would like to get involved in a >forum for information exchange. My background has been as a programmer >in the, dare I say it, M****Soft, platforms, so I do have some >technical knowledge. > >Any assistance would be great, Hi, and Welcome to GNHLUG, we're always happy to gain new members :) I'm more than willing to try and answer any questions you may have, or at least try and point you in the right direction. Anyway, most of the information you're probaly looking for/interested in can probably be found at our website, http://www.gnhlug.org. GNHLUG is set up as a state-wide organization with several sub-chapters. I'm the chairman of the Nashua chapter. Every chapter holds their own meetings each month, then once each quarter, we try to get all of GNHLUG together for a large quarterly meeting. For quarterly meetings in the past, we've had speakers such as Ted T'so (ext2, ext2 utils, pilot-link, etc), and just this past December, Eazel flew out from California for us to speak about their projects. For the Nashua chapter, some of the up coming meeting topics are: 24 January Mark Komarinski (VA Linux, HOWTO HOWTO author) will be presenting on SGML and DocBook 22 February TBD (either Ron Lawrence/Rich Payne on Emacs, or myself on using exmh for e-mail) 22 March Comparison of Mail Transfer Agents (Sendmail, postfix, qmail, exim) by several LUG members. There's really nothing more to getting involved other than either showing up to meetings or taking part in the general mailling list discussions. I highly recommend joining the mail list. There's a tremendous amount of knowledge on that list, and everyone really benefits from helping each other out. So, if you need help, it's a great place to get it. If you don't, it's a great place to lend a helping hand to others. You can get all the mail list info on our web site. There's ususally a Question/Answer session both before and after each meeting where we try to help people solve their problems, so if you have some pressing problem, this is usually a good place to meet up with someone who may have the answer. Additionally, we do have what we call New User Night's or N.U.N.'s. All the information to these events should also be on the web site as well. Again, welcome to GNHLUG! -- Seeya, Paul ---- I'm in shape, my shape just happens to be pear! If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right! ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **********************************************************
