[NBLUG] General Meeting Announcement; Tux Paint

WHAT: NBLUG General Meeting TOPIC: Tux Paint SPEAKER: Bill Kendrick WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol http://nblug.org/directions.cgi http://ora.com/oreilly/seb_directions.html WHEN: Tuesday, January 14th @ 7:30PM This is our normal monthly meeting at the normal scheduled time and place. NBLUG meetings are open to all and are free of charge. Tux Paint is open source painting software designed for children. It runs on Linux, but also runs on a wide variety of other operating systems. This presentation will include: * Demonstration of using Tux Paint * Why did Bill start the project? * Why did Bill choose to do it Open Source? * Tux Paint's language- and platform-agnosticism * How users and developers can extend Tux Paint (for themselves/their kids, or for the general community of users) Bill Kendrick is the author of the Tux Paint software. He is also one of the founders and the current president of LUGOD. Before moving to Davis he attended SSU. OTHER UPCOMING NBLUG EVENTS: January 18th: InstallFest; signup at http://nblug.org/installfest/. February 11th: Intermediate PHP with Mark Linford March 11th: Linux BBC (Bootable Business Card) project with Nick Moffitt. -- Eric Eisenhart NBLUG Co-Founder & President Pro Tempore for Life The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org/ eric(a)nblug.org, IRC: Freiheit@freenode, AIM: falschfreiheit, ICQ: 48217244