Date: On:Sep 09/09/14 5:35 PM Subject: Free FOSS meeting this Thursday, September 11th 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 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, September 11th meeting (if time and interest permit): Raffle Item demo. Hot Hardware show-and-tell (5-min. each): 30GB mSATA SSD for $17! The FOSS News: Ubuntu is 23 (Aug. 25th); Spotting Linux in the wild; InstallFest at MIT, this Sat.; Natick Days, also this Sat. (next year, with FOSS?). Other? Book raffle (courtesy O'Reilly Media). FOSSUG's Loaner Linux Laptop: $10 for 10 days! (Algot Runeman, Bob Monheimer) Challenge: Who will evaluate Dasher? ("A fast, non-keyboard text entry system", in the Ubuntu Software Center.) Clicking is a Public Act! (Sally Kohn, on BrainPickings & TED). More 3-speed tools (see June), but in software! Look inside with sysinfo (in Win), lshw (in Lin), SysInfo (for Lin) or HardInfo (for Lin). Fotoxx demos: new 16:10 image ratio, Collections, Add Text, 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: Linux InstallFest at MIT, on Saturday, September 13th. Natick Days, 10AM-3PM on Saturday, September 13th - Visit this year; staff a FOSS User Group exhibit table next year? Invite the Natick High School Robotics Club table (and NHS Programming Club) to our meetings! 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.