[ale] ALE CENTRAL for Thursday, Sept. 20, 7:30pm

[aaron]

Our Featured Presentation for the
Thursday, Sept. 20th, 7:30pm
ALE Central meeting will be

"Embedding Video Clips into OpenOffice.org Impress Presentations"

a casual ALE presentation about preparing a presentation about
preparing ALE as prepared and presented by James Kinney

Synopsis:
-- Most Linux users know and use OpenOffice.org for creating documents
and Impress-ive
presentations. It's often nice to use embedded video clips as a part
of those presentation,
though it's especially nice when we can capture and prepare those
video clips using all
Open Source Linux tools like Kino.
– This will be a practical demonstration of how to do this and how to
avoid pitfalls in
keeping the presentation portable. These procedures were learned
during the making
of the "Beer in Spaaaaace!" presentation for DragonCon 2008.
– Warning: Video clips of animated beer drinkers may offend the easily
offended, though
we can assure our audience that no hops were abused in the making of
this presentation
or the brew that accompanied it. Also, a possible linkage between
Linux and beer may
appear if it ever compiles.

Bio:
– Jim Kinney shows up at ALE meetings when harrased by Aaron and when
he remembers
what day of the week it is. Currently, Jim brews beer and prefers beer
over serial ports.
No, really! Once you pour the beer over the serial ports you can go
have more beer 'cause
the serial ports don't work any more. Beer over PS/2 or USB ports may
be hazardous to
your health.
– Jim has also been a Linux user since 1993 (Go Slackware!) and a
strong open source
evangelist ever since. He masquerades by day as a Linux admin to
support his hardware
acquisition addiction. He is actively involved in working to displace
the dysfunctional
computer platforms in schools as a founding member of Georgia Open
Source Education
Foundation (gosef.org). The group works with community groups such as
Boys and Girls
Clubs of America and the Clarkston Community Center to set up Linux
thin client systems
to support these groups need for reliable, low cost computing
platforms for social support.

Links:
< http://www.Octobrewfest.org >

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We will be meeting in our usual Gambrel Hall room 1C venue.
Meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
<http://mail.ale.org/?page_id=2>