GNHLUG (Nashua) Meeting for September 11th, 1900 hours

[Jon 'maddog' Hall, USG Senior Leader]

Hi,

I have been lax during these summer months in scheduling the next meeting.

However, I have bitten the bullet and scheduled the next meeting for September
11th at 1900 hours at Illuminata (directions below).

The topic will be:

		Desktop Applications

I would like people to bring in their favorite applications to demonstrate.
It can be an application that ships with Red Hat, or with Slackware, or some
other Linux distribution, or just pulled off the net.  It should not be royalty
bearing (i.e. it should be freeware, or shareware). You should have done some
amount of tailoring the application (if that is needed) such as making the
colors pleasing to the eye, and be prepared to give a non-exhaustive "demo" of
the package.  It was this type of meeting that made me a "exmh" user last year.

The other thing you should do is to tar your application up into a file that
people can "untar" on their machine.  This way we can copy floppy images,
so other people can try and enjoy your application also.  Hopefully your
application installs into /usr/local, but if it does not, don't sweat it.

What type of applications are we looking for?  Almost anything other than the
basic "UNIX" commands (such as grep, ls, etc.).  Things like ical, plan,
etc. are kosher.  In other words, some of the larger, more task-oriented
programs.

For those of you who don't know where to start, take a look at page:

http://nswt.tuwien.ac.at:8000/htdocs/blatura/textonly.shtml

or (for the more scientific minded of you):

http://lusk1.mines.edu/hjjou/linux_old.html (for Netscape pre-2.0 browsers)
http://lusk1.mines.edu/hjjou/linux_prg.html (for newer browsers)

or (for the astronomers of you):

http://home.earthlink.net/~rfactory/lfa.html
or
http://bima.astro.umd.edu/nemo/linuxastro/

I will be demoing the winner of the Red Hat Desktop contest, of which I was
a judge.  Please see:

http://www.redhat.com/redhat/dtc/winners.html

for all the entries, but I will be demonstrating entry #30.

Now, we had a meeting like this one before, but it was a long time ago, our
group was smaller, and we only had a few people step forward.  This time I
will be happy to see many more people contribute.  As you figure out what you
wish to demo, please send me mail so we don't have duplications.

If you will contact me ahead of time, and supply your software in tar format,
I will install it on my machine and make it available for the meeting so you
can demo it.  We can discuss how you get it to me when you tell me what
tool you are demonstrating.  If I already have it installed, all I might need
are your start-up files.

I prefer Red Hat 3.0.3 (Intel) as a platform, with ELF binaries, for that is
what I will bring to the meeting.

The last time we had this, it was a lot of fun.  And I hope that the output of
this meeting can be turned into a separate presentation for the freshmen
college students as they enter in the fall.

Warmest regards,

md
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===========================Directions to Illuminata===========================
http://www.illuminata.com/directions.html

Illuminata's headquarters are located in Nashua, New Hampshire. 

We occupy the third floor of the Market Exchange Building at 187 Main Street. 
This building is better known as the home of Martha's Exchange, a popular
restaurant and micro-brewery. (For some reason, our clients visit our offices
far more often and far more enthusiastically since we co-located with Martha's.
Hmmm...)

Coming From The South (Massachusetts)

Take US Route 3, which is accessible from both the Route 128 and the I-495
beltways, north into New Hamphshire. Take Exit 5 and go East until you hit
Main Street. Take a left; go several blocks. Look for Martha's Exchange, a
large restaurant in a red-brick building on your left. You can generally park
on the street. 

Coming From The North (Concord, NH)

Take I-93 South. When I-93 and the Everett Turnpike go separate ways, follow
the Turnpike. You will soon come into Manchester. Follow the directions below
for Manchester. 

Coming From The North (Manchester, NH)

Whether you're coming from the Manchester Airport, from Route 101, or from
Concord down I-93, the trick is to take I-293 to the the Everett Turnpike,
then head South. Getting to I-293 is easy from Route 101, because they
are largely colinear in Manchester. From the Airport, take a Right at the exit.
Travel until you hit I-293, which you will take West, to the Left. Once you
are approaching Nashua, look for Exit 7 / Route 101A, which you will take
East. In a few minutes you will end up in downtown Nashua, where you will enter
an interection at an angle (you're on Amherst Street, about to turn onto Main).
At that intersection take a Right, which puts you on Main Street. Look for
Martha's Exchange in a red-brick building on your right.

Go to the third floor.

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Jon "maddog" Hall                     Internet: maddog at zk3.digital.com
Senior Leader, UNIX Software Group    Executive Director, Linux International

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