G'day all
We're pleased to announce that we're going to go with a theme for SFD this year, and that theme is "Bring a friend".
So many of the people we know and interact with have little awareness of the role, significance and potential of Free/Open Source Software. This year at Software Freedom Day, we'd like to see as many new people as possible and help you help them understand why Free/Open Source Software is worth being passionate about.
When you're encouraging your friends to come along, an important part to remember is that we're not trying to change minds, we're trying to open them and give them the freedom of choice in a relaxed, fun environment.
Who knows, perhaps someone you know may go home and try out some Free/Open Source Software. Maybe they'll even stop sending you emails with attachments in proprietary formats.
Press Release
http://www.taslug.org.au/uploads/SFD_2010_PR.pdf
We were featured in the United Linux! section of Linux Format's June issue (which is apparently the current issue for this side of the world) on page 14.
The article titled Skills upgrade talks about our March meeting, where I did a presentation on how to turn a pencil drawing into an SVG graphic, and how the format we've been using can help attract and be accessible to people who aren't familiar with the application being talked about as well as those who don't have any specific interest in Free/Open Source Software.
Great work everybody!
Resources from the March Meeting:
http://taslug.org.au/uploads/snowscape.jpg
http://taslug.org.au/uploads/snowscape.svg
http://www.inkscape.org/
http://www.linuxformat.com/
Finally, a timely meeting announcement!
This month, Phil (forum user pab) will be giving a talk on FreeNAS, a FreeBSD based Network Attached Storage solution.
2:00pm
Saturday 31st July (the last Saturday of the month)
Royal Oak
Launceston
As usual, some of us will be gathering at 1:00pm for a bite to eat before the 2:00pm start.
Look forward to seeing you there!
Google Maps Link
FreeNAS
Next month: Mike will be giving a talk on embedded systems development.
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Also, I've managed to get the notes from Henry's VI talk (both in HTML and plain text) and Bob's Xfce talk both available for download.
Vi Tutorial
* http://www.taslug.org.au/uploads/slideshows/TasLUG_VI_april_2010.html
* http://www.taslug.org.au/uploads/slideshows/TasLUG_VI_april_2010.txt
Xfce Slideshow
* http://www.taslug.org.au/uploads/slideshows/TasLUG_Xfce_26-6-2010.odp
G'day all
We're getting very close to that time again! We've got the venue secured, and a few of us have been starting to get some bits and pieces together.
I've made a forum thread to gather ideas together. Even if you're only planning on showing up, please share your thoughts.
Cheese
I've noticed that there seems to be an extremely lite presence on IRC! Is this simply due to not much call for the IRC channel or simply that this median is not used in preference to email or another form of communication?
Either way I've propped myself into the #taslug IRC channel and will await some others to maybe join in...
Scott (aka VK7HSE)
