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

[Jim Kinney]

That last link should be:

http://octobrewfest.com

not .org

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:29 PM, aaron <aaron at pd.org> wrote:

> 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 >
>
> ============================
> 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>
>
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James P. Kinney III
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