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2005.01.10 update:
Video DVD of the full meeting is now available at
ftp.ale.org/meetings/central/2005-12
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The main presentation for December’s ALE Central meeting was
on Scalix and was provided by Ben Chapman, Assistant Dean for Information
Technology at the Emory law school.
Scalix allows Unix / Linux based systems to support the common Outlook
client bundled with windows desktops while avoiding some of the problems
and security issues of Microsoft Exchange. The product has a strong technical
pedigree (HP OpenMail is the underlying foundation) and is an outstanding
webmail client. The Emory law school is investigating the deployment of
Scalix to handle approximately 150 faculty and staff email accounts.
Ben Chapman is in charge of the I.T. department at the Emory University
School of Law. Before formally entering the IT field in 1997, he practiced
law for five years with a 40 lawyer firm in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was
previously IT director for the University of Tulsa College of Law and
has been at Emory since 2003. He has owned some flavor of Unix-based
computer since 1991, and has also owned a Sinclair QL, an Atari 520ST,
an Epson HX-20, an NEC Starlet, and other bits of micro-computing history.
Ben has made his PDF presentation slides available and they are posted here:
Scalix Presentation Slides, 2005.12.08 Central
Right Click on link above to download. Size is 351 KB
The feature topic for the November ALE central meeting
will be an overview of Classcaster, a blog system supporting
telephony messaging and podcasting:
“Classcaster is a course blogging system that provides faculty,
librarians, and staff of CALI member schools with a new way to
interact with students and communities. A Classcaster blog
provides authors with tools for posting not only traditional blog
articles but also tools for podcasting and sharing any documents
and/or files with students and communities.”
( More at http://www.classcaster.org )
Our presenter will be Elmer Masters, Director of Internet
Development for the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal
Instruction ( CALI, http://www.cali.org ).
He is also an admin of the Teknoids mailing list and website
( http://www.teknoids.net ) and blogs at
http://www.content4.symphora.com/ .
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Learn how you, too, can liberate your digital information from its proprietary prison. At the GNU COMPUTER FREEDOM FEST, we prove that you don’t have to be a tech head to escape the frustrations of those “Microsoft Moments”. Learn how to liberate your computer creativity with the latest in secure, easy to use, free (as in beer), free (as in speech), high quality GNU Open Source software programs and Linux Xwindow environments for all of your home, school, office and internet applications.
There will be dozens of free CD’s full of GNU software and various Linux distributions** given away at the event, and as a further incentive, we will be giving away a complete*, pre-installed, Linux desktop system (with the hope that it will be won by a starving student or similarly needy GNU Linux newbie).
But whether you come to the GNU COMPUTER FREEDOM FEST to grab the freebies, to help, to learn, to teach, to solve a technical problem or to have a Linux OS** or other GNU software installed on your system, please come prepared to have some fun with computing again!
(See ALE Central Meeting Directions for maps and parking info)
* Donated computer system will be a 300-600 mhz x86 CPU, min 128 meg
memory, 17″ monitor, keyboard, mouse, cdrom; approx. value ~$280.
** Those interested in having a Linux distribution installed at the GNU
Freedom Fest event, as well as any volunteers offering installation help,
are asked to please register via the REGISTER HERE link at
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