Upcoming meetings

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

Sounds like a great idea, if we can find a speaker. Would you like to 
give the presentation?

I was initially planning an AIX meeting for February 20, but I've been
unable to contact the speaker since meeting him at the Installfest
last month. If February too soon to prepare for, the next spot is May 15; 
the March and April meetings are already filled.


Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> writes:

> How's this for a meeting idea/request: 
> 
>   Moving from MS Windows to Linux
> 
> It seems a good time for this topic:
> 
> * Microsoft is at the till again hawking a new OS version, and this
>   time they want users sucked into a new and expensive subscription
>   model.
> 
> * Linux (ongoing 2.4 kernel silliness excepted) is getting more
>   stable, distributions better, desktop applications are getting more
>   extensive and mature.
> 
> * Security is getting more important, even BillG admits that Microsoft
>   needs to worry about security, and a Linux box is easy to make a lot
>   more secure.
> 
> Is there an obvious suspect to do such a talk?  
> 
> If not, it is possible a I could team up with a friend of mine and we
> could put together something pretty good.  The friend is an IT manager
> in an MS Windows shop and he has been learning some Linux (studying a
> lot of Python of late), and I have managed to learn a fair amount of
> Linux (can't remember how to operate my Mac since I started doing
> Linux kernel programming) and have even used Windows occasionally.
> 
> Good idea?
> 
> -kb
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