New meeting time for GNHLUG/MerriLUG/Nashua

[Jeff Smith]

My mail messed up first time - resend the contents:
--- Jeff Smith wrote:

> Figures.  The ONE thursday I have a conflict (this month
> only) - oh well, I'll shoot for attending the April
> meeting.  Below for more.
> 
> --- Ken D'Ambrosio <kend at xanoptix.com> wrote:
> 
> > [And this time, I'll even send it from an address the
> > listserv knows. 
> > *sigh*  Please excuse if you get a duplicate.]
> > 
> > Hello!  Below is the e-mail I've been trying to send
> out
> > for some time;
> > sadly, I wanted to include a schedule of upcoming
> meeting
> > topics/speakers, but -- ah, the naivete -- I now know
> > that such things
> > require substantial bulldogging to accomplish.  So,
> below
> > is a TENTATIVE
> > list of meeting topics, and anyone who's interested in
> > giving chats for
> > ones not already taken are implored to contact me. 
> > Anyway, back to your
> > regularly-scheduled e-mail:
> > 
> > Howdy, all.  Just wanted to let you guys know that,
> after
> > much debate,
> > consideration, and checking of calendars, it looks like
> > the third
> > Thursday of each month is the way to fly.  I'm sure
> that
> > that'll
> > conflict with someone... so I'm sorry.  BUT, it seems
> to
> > conflict with
> > the minimum number of people who responded, and --
> unlike
> > the fourth
> > week of the month -- won't conflict with year-end
> > holidays.
> > [Thanksgiving's the FOURTH Thursday of November; I
> > checked.]
> > I've also firmed things up with Martha's, and they're
> > glad to have us back.
> > 
> > Here's the current schedule for upcoming meetings:
> > 
> > March 17 (that's this coming Thursday):
> > - General LUGness.  Come as you are, and we'll discuss
> > the why's,
> > wherefores, and so forth.
> >    See the end of this e-mail for a (very) rough idea
> of
> > how the
> > structure of meetings will go.
> > 
> > April 21: MythTV (an open-source, Linux-based TiVo-like
> > system)
> > - I've got some goodies from the EFF for this, and
> would
> > invite anyone
> > who's set up a
> >    system to tell us how it works.  Are enough people
> > familiar with it
> > that we'd consider
> >    having some sort of more formal installfest on a
> > weekend?
> 
> haven't set it up, but MALU in alabama
> (http://www.malu.org) have lots of MythTV folks - many
> with
> it on a modded xbox (don't ask why - they like it).  You
> might contact them for info.
> 
> 
> > 
> > May 19: Security.
> > - I'd like to do something on security, if anyone's
> > willing to give a
> > discussion
> >    about it.  Often enough, I see comments to the
> effect
> > that security
> > implemented
> >    without knowing what you're doing isn't really
> > security... but
> > security, let's
> >    be honest, isn't trivial to implement with Linux. 
> If
> > anyone would
> > care to discuss
> >    their favorite firewall front-ends, or
> what-have-you,
> > I'd be very
> > interested.
> 
> Don't know if I'll be around, but definitely a topic of
> interest to me - used to do it even.
> 
> 
> > 
> > June 16: WINE (www.winehq.com -- a WINdows Emulator)
> (or Wne Is Not an Emulator)
> 
> > - Ira Krakow, who helped out at the GNHLUG booth at
> > LinuxWorld, has kindly
> >    offered chat up WINE.  For those that haven't used
> it,
> > it does Windows
> >    emulation... kinda.  It has a long and storied
> > history, and can be
> >    interesting to get running.  Ira's writing a book
> > aoubt WINE, and I'd
> >    be very interested to hear what he has to say. 
> Bring
> > your questions, or
> >    your successes!
> 
> Wish I had that now - trying to get H&R Block TaxCut to
> run
> under it - installs, but complains about not being able
> to
> load a file (exact message is:
> "File Open Failed.
> File=.//tcedtion.04
> (see WinFileReadImpl::open())"
> 
> I'm running the latest wine, compiled from cvs.
> 
> 
> > 
> > July 21: New user meeting!
> > - Meet and greet.  New users are -always- welcome, of
> > course, but one
> > theme expressed at
> >    our previous meeting in February was that we should
> > have an
> > occasional meeting where
> >    new users, and their concerns -- and perhaps even
> > their systems, if
> > they're willing
> >    to lug 'em in -- are the focus.
> > 
> > Aug 18: IP (not the networking kind) issues, both
> > historical and
> > contemporary.
> > - I hope to be able to drag a specific speaker in for
> > this that I met at
> >    the GNHLUG booth at LinuxWorld, but haven't been
> able
> > to firm up a date.
> 
> Especially with the effort for patents in EU - good
> topic.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Generally speaking, we usually get together at 6:00
> p.m.
> > at Martha's for
> > some chow; this is entirely informal, and everyone is
> > welcome to attend,
> > or skip, as they see fit.  Around 7:00, we filter up to
> > one of Martha's
> > function rooms, where a more formal meeting occurs;
> we'll
> > have a Q&A
> > time, and usually some topic of discussion for us to
> > expound on.  New
> > users/list lurkers are invited to make themselves
> known;
> > I can't speak
> > for anyone else, but I'm terrible with faces and names,
> > so please feel
> > free to introduce yourself even if you aren't new --
> > given the sporadic
> > attendance, it's likely you'll be new to at least a
> fair
> > chunk of the folks.
> > 
> > My next notifications of upcoming meetings, I promise,
> > will be with a
> > bit more advance warning.  Trying to fit everything
> > together for an
> > initial schedule was a bit on the daunting side.
> 
> Great lineup - hope it works out!  If not, "flexibility
> is
> the key to Air Power" (Penguins don't fly - but Linux
> does
> [see recent Linux Journal - Linux on Spacecraft])
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > -Ken
> > 
> 
> jeff
>