Date:    Sep 09/30/14 6:01 PM
Subject: [FOSS User Group] Free FOSS meeting this Thursday, October 2nd
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!


At our Thursday, October 2nd FOSS meeting (as time and interest permit):

    Raffle Item demo.
    Hot Hardware show-and-tell (5-min. each): 30GB mSATA SSD for $17 (sad follow-up); A-V Cables (and cable adapters & splitters & converters).
    The FOSS News: Re-usables giveaway at FOSS meetings (old desktop computer, printer, more)?; Shellshock bug; new Samsung smartwatches run Tizen OS;
Ubuntu Touch OS released to manufacturing, $10K contest for Box-Packing Program. Other?
    Book raffle (courtesy O'Reilly Media).
    LibreOffice Tools and Tricks to Make Your Work Easier - guest presentation by Robinson Tryon,
LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald for The Document Foundation (the group behind LibreOffice).
    FOSS Slide Show apps: Impress (R.Tryon), S5 (A.Runeman), Fotoxx (A.R.Miller).
    Creating App icons on the Ubuntu Desktop (Algot Runeman)
    FOSS Challenge: Members review Dasher - "a fast, non-keyboard text entry system" that's in the Ubuntu Software Center.
    More 3-speed tools (see June), but in software!
    Fotoxx demos: Popup Images, Mashup, and its 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:

    Review Natick Days, high-school computer clubs.
    At our November FOSS meeting, a look inside Ubuntu by Michael Terry of Canonical Ltd.

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 this 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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