Thursday, October 13, 2005

MonadLUG tonight: The Open CD Tonight at the MonadLUG meeting, I will present "The Open CD" a CD to share with family and friends. It has Windows-readable and -runnable binaries including FireFox, OpenOffice.org, Thunderbird, 7-Zip, Audacity, Battle for Wesnoth, Gaim, Celestia, GIMP, Notepad2, PDFCreator, Really Slick Screensaveers, NVU, Sokoban and TuxPaint. It also includes the texts "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" and "Open Sources." If booted, the CD runs a LiveCD version of Ubuntu. It's a powerful tool to convince family, friends, clients and perfect strangers to try out F/OSS. Download your copy from http://www.theopencd.org/ or come to the MonadLUG meeting tonight where I will have copies to give away. The Monadnock Linux User Group (MonadLUG) meets the second Thursday or each month at 7:00pm at the SAU 1 Superintendent's Office behind South Meadow School in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Details, directions and lots more information are available at the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group web site. 3:46:29 PM    comment []

PySIG in two weeks: Jython The Python Special Interest Group ("PySIG") of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group meets the fourth Thursday of each month at the Amoskeag Business Incubator in Manchester at 7 PM. This month, the meeting will take place on Thursday, 27 October 2005 and will feature a presentation on Jython by KentJohnson. "Kent is soliciting suggestions for specific topics (on the PySIG mailing list). In the meantime here's a synopsis about Jython in the large from the project's home page: http://www.jython.org/docs/whatis.html. Jython should be of interest to anyone who uses or wants to know about either Python or Java. I particularly like the "typically 2-10X shorter" part, having worked on Java projects in a former life..." -- Bill Sconce, PySIG coordinator 12:01:17 PM    comment []

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