[NBLUG/Announce] Gimp and Officer Elections on Tuesday (General Meeting)

This meeting is at our regular time and place. Everybody is welcome. WHAT: NBLUG General Meeting *AND* NBLUG Officer Elections TOPIC: The Gimp, presented by Bill Kendrick WHEN: Tuesday, September 9th, 7:20pm WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol http://nblug.org/location.shtml http://ora.com/oreilly/seb_directions.html Please try to show up a little earlier than usual. We'd like to pass out ballots and have all the voting done by 7:35. (starting at 7:25 or so) We hope to have everything counted and tallied by the end of the meeting. THE GIMP Many of you probably remember Bill Kendrick from his presentation on TuxPaint. This time he's covering a more serious paint program that he didn't write himself, The Gimp. The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. ELECTIONS http://nblug.org/members.shtml (a little ways down) has a list of the people nominated for each position. We'll also have ratification of the NBLUG Constitution as an item on the ballot. The proposed constitution is available at http://nblug.org/documents.shtml and we'll have a printed copy or two available for review at the meeting, as well. Three of the positions only have one candidate, we need a 2/3rds approval for that candidate to officially take office, so check the box if you approve of that candidate. Scribe has 2 people nominated, so simply check the box next to the person you'd prefer. For the "Directors At Large", pick up to 2 candidates, much like for school board elections. In the future we'd like to do this electronically, but for now the election is pencil and paper at the meeting. GPG There will also be a GPG keysigning party after the meeting. Contact augie(a)nblug.org if interested. OTHER UPCOMING NBLUG EVENTS: September 27th: InstallFest at SSU; http://nblug.org/installfest/ October 14th: General Meeting, topic TBA November 11th: General Meeting, topic TBA If you (or somebody you know) might be interested in speaking to a friendly group of 25-45 people about something related to Linux or Open Source, please contact speakers(a)nblug.org. -- Eric Eisenhart NBLUG Co-Founder & President Pro Tempore The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org/ eric(a)nblug.org, IRC: Freiheit@freenode, AIM: falschfreiheit, ICQ: 48217244