March 11th, regular meeting: Linux Bootable Business Card Project March 15th, special event: RevolutionOS Details on both follow: ----------------------------- Linux Bootable Business Card: WHAT: NBLUG General Meeting TOPIC: LNX-BBX (Linux Bootable Business Card) SPEAKER: Nick Moffitt & ?? WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol http://nblug.org/directions.cgi http://ora.com/oreilly/seb_directions.html WHEN: Tuesday, March 11th, 2003 @ 7:30PM This is our normal monthly meeting at the normal scheduled time and place. The LNX-BBC is a mini Linux-distribution, small enough to fit on a CD-ROM that has been cut, pressed, or molded to the size and shape of a business card. LNX-BBCs can be used to rescue ailing machines, perform intrusion post-mortems, act as a temporary workstation, and perform many other tasks that we haven't yet imagined. Nick Moffitt, of the BBC project, will be talking about the build system they use to create the images. He'll be bringing along another person from the project that will be talking about the BBC itself from a user perspective. http://lnx-bbc.org/ ------------------------ REVOLUTION OS screening: WHAT: NBLUG Special Event TOPIC: REVOLUTION OS Screening WHERE: Sonoma State Campus Schulz Info Center, Room 2015 WHEN: Saturday, March 15th, 2003 @ 2:00PM This is a Special Event in an unusual location. This is the same building as our InstallFests, but in a room on the second floor. Sorry, but no food allowed. The movie runs for about an hour and a half, and we plan to start it right at 2:00PM, so plan to show up around 1:40PM. We'll be showing this on a large projection television; we were hoping to show the special edition DVD, but it's not shipping until a week after our screening. REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software model and Microsoft to create GNU/Linux and the Open Source movement. On June 1, 2001, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches." Microsoft fears GNU/Linux, and rightly so. GNU/Linux and the Open Source & Free Software movements arguably represent the greatest threat to Microsoft's way of life. Shot in cinemascope on 35mm film in Silicon Valley, REVOLUTION OS tracks down the key movers and shakers behind Linux, and finds out how and why Linux became such a potent threat. REVOLUTION OS features interviews with Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Brian Behlendorf, Michael Tiemann, Larry Augustin, Frank Hecker, and Rob Malda. To view the trailer or the first eight minutes go to the ifilm website for REVOLUTION OS. http://www.revolution-os.com/ -- 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