CentraLUG Meeting, February 6, Bill Sconce: Moodle and David Berube: Extracting MSOffice docs

[Ted Roche]

The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central New Hampshire  
chapter of the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group, occurs on the  
first Monday of each month on the New Hampshire Institute Campus  
starting at 7 PM. This month, we'll be meeting in our usual spot in  
Room 146 of the Library/Learning Center/Bookstore, http:// 
www.nhti.net/nhtimap.pdf , marked as "I" on that map. Directions and  
maps are available on the NHTI site at http://www.nhti.edu. Open to  
the public. Free admission. Tell your friends.

This month's meeting will feature two presentations: Bill Sconce with  
Moodle and David Berube on Extracting Content from MS Office Documents.

According to the web site (http://www.moodle.org), "Moodle is a  
course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package  
designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create  
effective online learning communities. " Moodle is in use in many  
communities locally and worldwide. While Moodle is primariy a LAMP  
app, it also works with PostgreSQL and on a variety of platforms  
(Windows, OS X, Netware). Bill will share what he's learning in  
setting up Moodle for a local client.

David will be showing techniques based on his upcoming PHP Magazine  
article, "Converting MS Office Documents with PHP." The techniques  
can be applied outside of PHP, and cover open source tools to convert  
Word and Excel documents into HTML or PDF... as well as a little  
extra Ghostscript magic.

More details at about this meeting, direction and group info  are  
available at http://www.centralug.org and http://www.gnhlug.org.

We're also in the process of finalizing details for the March  
meeting, where we hope to have access to a lab of computers where we  
can see a live demo of the LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project), see  
a build and install and learn about cross-compatibility with Windows  
Terminal Services. This meeting will likely be off-site in Penacook,  
details are still being ironed out, so stay tuned!

Hope to see you there!



Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com



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