[ale] december NW ALE meeting

Raylynn Knight audilover at speedfactory.net
Mon Nov 29 20:46:59 EST 2004


On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 19:00, Geoffrey wrote:
> William Bagwell wrote:
> > On Monday 29 November 2004 10:32 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> > 
> >>Is there any interest in having a December NW meeting?  It would be the
> >>16th, the week before Christmas.  I was thinking of doing a presentation
> >>on how to create a multi-boot system or a demo of the Enlightenment
> >>window manager.  I could also demo the Release 2 of the Sun Java Desktop
> >>system.
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, multi-boot sounds good. Will still try to make it for either of the 
> > other two choices too.
> 
> So, I'm thinking of demostrating an install of Linux on a laptop that 
> currently has Windows eXcrement Pile.  The target is to have a 4 way 
> boot by the end of the night.  Windows eXcrement Pile, SuSE 9.2, 
> Mandrake 10.1 Official and Sun Java Desktop Release 2.  If 10 or more 
> folks show up, I'll have a drawing for the winners choice of a full 
> version of Sun Java Desktop Release 2 (requires registration and $$ to 
> update it though) or a dvd of Mandrake 10.1 Official.  If 15 or more 
> folks show up, I'll up to two drawings up for graps will be the Sun JDS 
> and/or MDK 10.1 Official DVD.  I only have one copy of the Sun JDS, but 
> I'll bring two copies of the MDK 10.1 Official.
> 
> BUT!  I need to see more interest...  Let me know folks, I might throw 
> in an ALE/LISA T-shirt if enough folks show up.
I should be able to make it this month.  
Do we have a topic for January yet?  If not perhaps we could get take
some requests for topics. If I know enough about any of the proposed
topics I'd be willing to do a presentation for January or February.

Ray




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