[ale] ALE CENTRAL MEETING for Thursday, 2004.06.10

Thu Jun 10 13:49:42 EDT 2004

I'll be there.  I'm bringing a SCSI scanner thats about 7 years old, some misc 
stuff I've got kicking around, and a whole bunch of door prizes from RedHat.

Michael

On Tuesday 08 June 2004 08:19 pm, aaron wrote:
> Well...
> 	With apologies, our scheduled presenter for this Thursday's (tomorrow's)
> ALE Central meeting is requesting a last minute rain check due to the
> emergency medical needs of a family member.
>
> 	Rather than beg Bj?rn to perform an encore of last month's excellent short
> notice presentation work, Michael and I decided to offer the June ALE
> Central meeting as a casual Swag Fest / Swap Meet / Switch Board kind of
> affair.
>
> 	Swag Fest because Michael was recently gifted a large volume of Linux
> related trade show type promotional items to distribute to the group.
>
> 	Swap Meet because everyone is invited bring along any hardware items they
> would like to sell, swap or see stored in someone else's basement.
>
> 	Switch Board because we'll have an extended opportunity to help each other
> solve problems,  answer questions, compare distros and discuss at length
> the many merits of using Vi instead of Emacs and consider why KDE is so
> slow and awkward compared to Gnome. ;-)
>
> 	Anyone willing haul in and set up a system for "experiments" or internet
> access, please feel free. I will be bringing my media explorations box,
> (currently a Mandrake 10.0 install) in addition to a couple power strips, a
> few enet cables and a 5 port switch. I also intend to have a couple of
> current distro sets on hand for the asking (FCFS). At the least I'll have
> one 5 CD set of SuSE 9.1 pro, plus one or two 4 disk sets of Mandrake 10.0
> official and a copy or two of the latest KNOPPIX  release 3.4-040517, .
>
> 	Who knows... a Swag Fest / Swap Meet / Switch Board meeting may prove a
> pleasant break from the usual monthly fare, so I'll hope to see y'all
> there!
>
> peace
> aaron
> Associate Moderator,
> ALE Central Meeting
>
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