Date:    Feb 02/28/15 1:11 PM
Subject: [FOSS User Group] Free FOSS meeting this Thursday, March 5th
From:    A. Richard 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, March 5th FOSS meeting (as time and interest permit):

    Raffle Item demo.
    Hot Hardware show-and-tell (5-min. each; others?).
    The FOSS News: Who Writes Linux? (Linux Foundation reports 2,000 new developers, 10,000 patches for each version);
FCC voted FOR Net Neutrality; Canada bars Apple TV streaming from USA; Lenovo shipped computers with Superfish security
vulnerability (Oct-Dec 2014); Samsung's smart-TV user agreement says you agree to be watched.
    Upcoming events.
    FOSS Challenge: Who will review Firefox Hello?
    Book raffle (courtesy O'Reilly Media).
    Free Tools for Tax Time (Jill Miller): demo of OpenTaxSolver. For some, GnuCash or LibreOffice Calc will help.
    Hands-on: Use UNetBootIn to burn a bootable Linux thumb drive. (To participate, bring a USB thumb drive, 4GB or larger.)
    Storage and Drive Formats: SDHC, SDXC, EXFAT, and more.
    FOSS Q&A

Bring a friend to our monthly FOSS meeting! Beginners, arrive by 3PM for the introductory slide talk. Informal from 2PM,
and/or join us for dinner afterward.

Other upcoming meetings:

    March 21-22 - Linux Planet 2015 in Cambridge MA.

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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