CentraLUG, NEW LOCATION, August 7th (Monday). Open Mike! Q&A! Chat! Ubuntu! Stickers!

[Bill Sconce]

The August 7th meeting of the Central New Hampshire Linux User Group
was held last night, as promised, in the Hopkinton Town Library.  This
is a great venue -- a large, airy room with windows looking out over
the playing fields, highspeed Internet, a real projection screen,
and lots of tables and chairs.  Clean!

And oh yes, the air conditioning worked last night.  (I asked Ted
what the secret turned out to be, and he mumbled something about the
little button at the corner of the thermostat, "push once", "push
again", then "Control-Alt-Delete".  I think.)  But it worked.

The meeting itself was both very small (three folks showed up,
Ted, David Rose from 'way up north - Plymouth area, I think, and
yours truly) and one of the best uses of an evening I've been to.
True to the billing ("Open Mike Night") Dave brought questions about
development with Free software, and we had an intense roundtable
about tools, from Informix follow-ons to how it is to be a SCO
customer (and how to plan for the future in such a context) to
when/whether/how to reimplement a business practice of 4GL apps.
Also a revisit of Dabo (which would be one candidate for 4GL
follow-on, we all agreed), GUI toolkits, and (of course, given that
Bill & Ted were there) Python.  And a lot of exchange about particular
applications, especially in the distribution industry, which is
Dave's area of expertise.  I learned a lot, and it was a lot of fun.

Thanks, Ted, for arranging this.

-Bill