[NBLUG] General Meeting Announcement; Tux Paint

[Eric Eisenhart]

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 at nblug.org, IRC: Freiheit at freenode, AIM: falschfreiheit, ICQ: 48217244
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