Date:    Oct 10/30/14 8:33 PM
Subject: [FOSS User Group] Free FOSS meeting next Thursday, November 6th
From:    Dick and Jill Miller


Hi, fellow FOSS fans! Please share this message.

Learn about and share Free, Open-Source Software with the
FOSS User Group at the Natick Community-Senior Center!

We meet 3-6PM on the 1st Thursday of most months (but 2nd Thursday in January, July and September)
 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!

A few weeks ago, Ubuntu Linux celebrated its tenth birthday and Unity turned four.
Today, my new Ubuntu 14.10 has been released one week. (I like it!) One week from today,
Michael Terry of Canonical helps us look inside the latest and next Ubuntu. Do you sense a theme here?

At our Thursday, November 6th FOSS meeting (as time and interest permit):

    Raffle Item demo.
    Hot Hardware show-and-tell (5-min. each): Anyone?
    The FOSS News: 4th Anniversaries of Ubuntu Unity and of LibreOffice;
        4 out of 5 developers now use Open Source; Test for Verizon's Privacy-Killing Perma-Cookie; Photo Exhibit in hall ("Motion", Nov.-Dec.) includes 3 Fotoxxed images by Dick.
    Book raffle (courtesy O'Reilly Media).
    Guest Presentation: Meet Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu Smart Phone (Michael Terry of Canonical Ltd.), and Ubuntu 14.10 Release Notes.
    LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice.
    More 3-speed tools (see June), but in software!
    Fotoxx demos: Popup Images, Mashup, and Slide Show's "Ken Burns" Zoom effect.
    FOSS Q&A

Bring a friend 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:

    2:30PM Friday, Nov. 14th at Natick Morse Institute Library (Age 11-18; preregistration required): Advanced Scratch, with Maker Kevin Osborn

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.
    Try our Ubuntu Linux Computer in the Computer Room at the Natick Community-Senior Center.
    Try our Loaner Linux Laptop at home; contact Algot Runeman (1-508/380-4820 cell; algot.runeman@verizon.net).
    Get free software and/or free Linux and learn how to use it.
    Tell others, distribute our NatickFOSS.org business cards, print and pin up some NatickFOSS.org posters.

CU next Thursday!

Cheers from
--Dick and Jill Miller, Partners, MMS <TheMillers@millermicro.com>
       Co-Leaders, FOSS User Group at Natick Community-Senior Center
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