[Yhslug] Friday Meeting-- Bring People!

[Sam Cottrell]

Well, I'm planning to attend, have plenty to learn about things Linux and,
with apologies to all, will listen and learn even if the presentation is
done from that other product. :)

Sam Cottrell

-----Original Message-----
From: yhslug-bounces at calypso.tux.org [mailto:yhslug-bounces at calypso.tux.org]
On Behalf Of Jeffrey Elkner
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:47 AM
To: Thomas Doggette; yhslug at tux.org
Subject: Re: [Yhslug] Friday Meeting-- Bring People!

We do hope you meant to say "a presentation" (using ooimpress or some other
free software presentation tool) and not literally a "power..." (I can't
bring myself to say it...)

jeff

On Thu, 17 May 2007 08:48:38 -0400, Thomas Doggette <tdoggette at gmail.com>
wrote:
>I'm glad to see that a lot of the regulars are attending, but what's 
>more important than that is that we have people to teach. Much of this 
>(excepting, of course, the pizza), is simply not going to be very 
>interesting to you Linux zealots.
>
>Bring family and friends.
>
>I'll have a powerpoint ready with the very basics of F/OSS and Linux, 
>ie what Libre is, why you ought to care, and how you can use it.
>That'll be followed by the start of an Ubuntu installation (I have a 
>hard drive, and I talked with Elkner a while back about using one of 
>his computers). Then, the pizza, and then we have a clean install to 
>play with. We can show everyone how easy it is to do stuff on Linux (we 
>can do that on another machine of the install's not done), and then, 
>how to install programs and maybe do a little customisation.
>Then, the fun part: I'm borrowing a copy of World of Warcraft from a 
>friend, and we'll get that running under Wine.
>
>If you have anything to add, either now or at the meeting, it's a 
>flexible schedule, so you'll have time to show off your trick or 
>favorite app.
>
>~Thomas Doggette
>~YHSLUG Student Lead
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