[ale] [ANNC] ALE CENTRAL MTG for Thursday, August 20, 2009

[Greg Freemyer]

I'm also a suse user and I'm glad to see the politics of the distro
did not prevent this topic from being covered.

I'm curious,  I got accepted as a "suse team member" a few weeks ago.
Any others on the list?

Greg

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:14 PM, aaron<aaron at pd.org> wrote:
> Please join us for the next monthly ALE Central Meeting
> at 7:30pm, Emory Law School, Gambrel Hall, rm 1C,
> on Thursday, Aug. 20th, 2009. The featured presentation
>  will be:
>
> “Open SUSE: The State of the Disavowed Distro”
> with Chuck Payne, Atlanta regional OpenSUSE Ambassador
> ==
>
> Synopsis:
> – Despite extensive concerns and criticisms from the Free Software
> community regarding SUSE’s partnership deals with Novel and the
> dangerous precedents of their concessions to the extortionist FUD
> campaigns of MicroSoft, the OpenSUSE project has continued to be
> an important contributing developer in the global GNU Linux and
> Open Source arenas. SUSE’s recently appointed volunteer ambassador
> for our region, Chuck Payne, will bring us up to date on the features
> and strengths of current OpenSUSE 11.1 offering and talk about
> enhancements scheduled for the pending 11.2 release.
>
> Bio:
> – Chuck “PUP” Payne has been working with computers since
> his parents gave him an Atari 130XE for his 16th birthday
> [ed - (: presumably misunderstanding his actual requests for
> a Commodore Amiga :) ]. He has since worked with personal
> computer platforms ranging from Atari and Apple to Mac and
> PC, and has explored various operating environments including
> Linux, BeOS, Solaris, FreeBSD and others. He has been
> working with GNU Linux since 1998, when he bought a book on
> Slackware ‘96. After Slackware he tried out Red Hat, then
> moved to openSUSE with their 1998 5.3 release and he has
> stayed with the SUSE choice since.
>
> Computers also became central to Chuck’s career, and he has
> worked as a System Administrator since 1998. He is currently
> employed by Travel Channel Media as a Unix Systems Admin,
> where day to day tasks include managing TCM’s DNS, 70+ Red
> Hat Linux Servers, 20 Solaris Servers, and a handful of Mac
> XServers. He also helps out with web development in the areas
> of Apache and JBOSS administration.
>
> In April 2009 Chuck’s application to be a regional volunteer
> ambassador for OpenSUSE was accepted, facilitating his goals
> of helping people discover the benefits of Free Software,
> GNU/Linux and the OpenSUSE distributions. In his free time he
> bolsters his geek cred by writing bash scripts or php code,
> hacking hardware in his home gadget lab, and watching any
> and all Zombie flicks that cross his path.
>
> =============
> Related Links:
> <http://OpenSUSE.org>
> =============
>
> These meeting details are also available at <http://ale.org>.
>
> We will be meeting at Emory Law School 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
> via the side bar links at <http://ale.org>,
>
> ==========
> thx
> peace
> aaron
>
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