[NBLUG/Announce] General Meeting: Cool Linux Apps! (Several mini-presentations)

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Date: 08/12/2003
What: General Meeting
Topic: Cool Linux Apps - Mini review from multiple NBLUG Members
Speaker: Multiple: See details
Where: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol, CA.
When: August 12, 2003 @ 7:30PM
Status: Tentative
Difficulty: Beginner-Intermediate
Details: Presentation should cover introductions to the
 following applications by the associated members:
   xv         (Ron W.: Confirmed.)
   xmms       (Troy: Confirmed.)
   xine       (Kyle: Confirmed.)
   mplayer    (Kyle: Confirmed.)
   Laptop-net (Kyle: Confirmed.)
   bc         (Andru: Confirmed.)
   Gaim       (Troy: Confirmed.)
   OpenOffice (Troy: Confirmed.)

Items not taken: (may be covered later in another presentation)
   Xchat      (NOT COVERED THIS MEETING)
   kismet     (NOT COVERED THIS MEETING)
   gpg        (NOT COVERED THIS MEETING)

Bios: (Still waiting for some speakers to submit brief bios)
 Andru: Andru works for SSU as Operating System Security Specialist. He has
 been a member of NBLUG since the very first meeting. He has used Linux for
 nearly a decade, and it is his operating system of choice. He often lurks
 in the mailing list, but when he answers a question, he often has something
 useful and clever to offer. He will discuss "bc" and uncover useful
 features that you may not have considered useful unless you saw them in
 action.

Kyle: Full-time Sysadmin for The Green Sheet, Inc. -- a local financial
 services publication. Kyle is finishing up a B.A. in Computer Science part
 time. He has been a member of NBLUG since January of 2003.
 Kyle has been using Linux since his first Redhat 5.1 install at the
 beginning of 1998 and has been using Linux exclusively as a desktop OS
 since 1999.

Ron: (bio to be added after submission)

Troy: First introduced to Linux in 1995 or so on the beloved and overworked
 nermal.santarosa.edu. Switched to Linux on the desktop for fun and work in
 1999. Finds booting other OS's less necessary with the advent of native
 Linux games such as RTCW, Unreal Tournament and Frozen Bubble.