Date: Aug 08/04/14 5:37 PM Subject: [FOSS User Group] Free FOSS meeting this Thursday, August 7th From: Dick and Jill Miller Hi, fellow FOSS fans! Learn about and share Free, Open-Source Software with the FOSS User Group at the Natick Community-Senior Center! We meet 3-6PM, usually on the first Thursday of the month, at the Natick Community-Senior Center at 117 East Central Street (in Room 125, the 1st-floor Classroom). It's for all, beginners through experts, on Linux or Mac OSX or Windows. We're WiFi-equipped, we're friendly, and it's free. Join us if you can! At our Thursday, August 7th meeting (if time and interest permit): Raffle Item demo. Hot Hardware show-and-tell (5-min. each): C. Crane US3 Super USB Wifi Antenna 3 (Marilyn McCormick); new loaner Linux laptop; others? The FOSS News: Review LibreOffice Hackfest, BadUSB exploit, UK adopts Open Document Format (ten years after Massachusetts), Mass. Electronic Privacy Act. Book raffle (courtesy O'Reilly Media). Favorite FOSS: Anti-Virus. Local traffic on Google Maps (and surveillance). Adblock Edge for Firefox. EFF's Privacy Badger (for Firefox, Chrome and Chromium) goes beta. More 3-speed tools (see June), but in software! Fotoxx demos: its Pattern effect, Mashup, Collections, and Slide Show's "Ken Burns" Zoom effect. FOSS Q&A Bring a friend (know any vacationing HS or college students?) to our monthly FOSS meeting! Beginners, arrive by 3PM for the introductory slide talk. Casual from 2PM, and/or join us for dinner afterward. Other meetings: None this month. For more info on other meetings, see our NatickFOSS Archives page! Between meetings: See us on-line at NatickFOSS.org - where you can subscribe to this newsletter, and can click on the meeting date to see our draft agenda and other meetings. Share information and questions on the NatickFOSS Forum. Tell others, distribute our NatickFOSS.org business cards, print and pin up some NatickFOSS.org posters. Try our Ubuntu Linux computer in the Computer Room at the Natick Community-Senior Center. Try our loaner Linux laptop at home. Get free software and/or free Linux and learn how to use it. CU this Thursday! Cheers from --Dick and Jill Miller, Partners, MMS Co-Leaders, FOSS User Group at Natick Community-Senior Center -- | A. Richard & Jill A. Miller | MILLER MICROCOMPUTER SERVICES | | Mailto:TheMillers@millermicro.com | 61 Lake Shore Road | | Web: http://www.millermicro.com/ | Natick, MA 01760-2099, USA | | Voice: 508/653-6136, 9AM-9PM -0400(EDT)| NMEA N 42.29993°, W 71.36558° | Sent from an awesome, inexpensive, no-lock-in, no-bloatware, virus-resistant, free-software, Linux PC.