Date:    Jan 01/02/15 9:31 PM
Subject: [FOSS User Group] Free FOSS meeting on Thursday, January 8th
From:     A. Richard Miller


Happy New Year, 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, January 8th FOSS meeting (as time and interest permit):

Raffle Item demo
Hot Hardware show-and-tell (5-min. each): The FOSS News: "Hour of Code" at NHS.
FOSS Challenge: Who will review OpenTaxSolver?
Book raffle (courtesy O'Reilly Media).
Electronic Data Theft and You (Staples credit cards et al); meet ThreatPost.com.
MMS upgrades its netbooks to Dell Inspiron 11 - 3147; lessons learned.
Review of Dasher, by Charlie Blaney. (Dasher is a fast, non-keyboard text entry system; it's in the Ubuntu Software Center.)
Using Inkscape for stenciling, doing silhouettes, and more, by Algot Runeman.
Fotoxx demos: new 30-min. Fotoxx demo video, new Tools>Magnify, Areas>Select, 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 upcoming meetings:

1-2:30PM Wednesday, Jan. 14th at Natick Morse Institute Library (age 11-18; preregistration required); Robots Visit, from iRobot
6:30-9PM Wednesday, Jan. 21st at MIT; Dick's Fotoxx Update at BLU.org
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. (It now has TurtleArt installed!)

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 on 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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