Date:    Jul 07/04/15 10:47 PM
Subject: FOSS User Group Free FOSS meeting this Thursday, July 9th
Sent By: A. Richard Miller


Hi, fellow FOSS fans! Please share this message!

I hope you're celebrating Independence Day by practicing independence - with FOSS!

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 OS X or Windows. We're WiFi-equipped, we're friendly, and it's free. Join us if you can!

At our Thursday, July 9th FOSS meeting (as time and interest permit):

    2-3PM: FOSS Help Hour (Give help or get it.)
    Raffle Item demo: ??
    Hot Hardware show-and-tell (5-min. each; others?): When warranties fail; Recycle vs. Re-use:
         We have various types of free cables and a few other cyber-doodads for you and your friends, so come and get'em! (Tom Swan)
    The FOSS News: Samsung Caught Disabling Windows Updates; HP re-aims the Machine to Linux and privacy; Windows 10 out July 29.
    Personal anecdote (5-10 min.): ??
    Raffle Item.
    Security/Privacy: Stealing Keys from PCs using a Radio; Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance;
         Chinese Crackers access U.S. systems; Russia disinforms the Internet; U.S Navy still using WinXP; BotNet activity Globally; rethinking Social Security Numbers.
    Demo: Kvm (or Virtualbox) runs Windows within Linux (Dennis Payne).
    Demo: Math Art and Screensavers (Xaos, XScreenSaver, add Really Slick Screensavers GLX Port for Euphoria, Helios, Hyperspace, BioF and much more).
    FOSS/Linux goodness: PowerTOP.
    Fotoxx: Moon Shot tutorial; Cartoon tutorial; new features.
    FOSS Q&A

Bring a friend to our monthly FOSS meeting! (Know any students, free for the summer?)
Beginners, arrive by 3PM for the introductory slide talk. Informal from 2PM, and/or join us for dinner afterward.

Special thanks to Brian Benson and the Metrowest Daily News, for this good article in its Natick weekly extra,
the Natick Bulletin and Tab. Too bad that it couldn't go regional, to invite even more newcomers. But YOU can forward it to friends.

Other upcoming events:

    FOSS Potluck Picnic on Sunday, August 16th - hold that date!

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 Ubuntu 15.04 and Fotoxx 15.06 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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