Monday, October 30, 2006

DLSLUG, 2 Nov-2006: FOSS in Schools Bill McGonigle announces the November 2nd meeting of the Dartmouth-lake Sunapee Linux User Group meeting, at a different location than usual: The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held Thursday, November 2nd, 7-9PM at Dartmouth College, Silsby Hall, Room 312. All are welcome, free of charge. "Open Source in Schools" presented by Dave Clifton Dave will be talking about the use of Free / Open Source Software in schools and will chronicle the growth of the infrastructure at the Plainfield Elementary School (NH SAU 32) since 2002. There will be an emphasis on choosing appropriate software, the real costs of going down the F/OSS path, and some potentially surprising stories about what the Plainfield School is doing today. Dave is currently a Senior Systems Administrator for Ansys (formerly Fluent) in Lebanon, NH. He holds a Master's degree in Applied Mathematics from Johns Hopkins and spent ten years doing consulting work for various government agencies and Bell Atlantic before escaping from DC to the Upper Valley in 1998. He got his start as a sysadmin in the mid-1980s running Masscomp Real-Time Unix and SunOS 4.0.3 and has subsequently worked on more operating systems than he wants to remember. 2:00:08 PM    comment []

SLUG 13-Nov-2006: Google Earth Ben Scott announces a presentation on Google Earth by Rob Anderson at the upcoming Seacoast Linux User Group: What : Google Earth Who : Rob Anderson Day : Mon 13 Nov 2006 Time : 7:00 PM Where: Room 301, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham, NH This November's SLUG meeting will be on Google Earth, with Rob Anderson leading the discussion. We're hoping everyone will get involved for a group learning session. What is Google Earth? "It's a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Satellite images and local facts zoom into view. Tap into Google search to show local points of interest and facts. Zoom to a specific address to check out an apartment or hotel. View driving directions and even fly along your route." -- from http://earth.google.com/earth.html Google Earth is free for personal use, and is available for Linux, Mac OS X, and something called "Windows". About SLUG SLUG is the Seacoast Linux User Group, and is a chapter of GNHLUG, the Greater NH Linux User Group. Rob Anderson is the SLUG coordinator. SLUG meets the second Monday of every month, same time, same place. You can find out more about SLUG and GNHLUG at the http://slug.gnhlug.org/ and http://www.gnhlug.org/ websites. Meetings take place starting at 7:00 PM. Meetings are open to all. The meeting proper ends around 9ish, but it's not uncommon to find hangers-on there until 10 or later. They take place in Room 301 (the third floor conference room), of Morse Hall, at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham. 9:54:09 AM    comment []

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