Date:    May 05/05/15 10:34 AM
Subject: FOSS User Group] Free FOSS meeting this Thursday, May 7th
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 OS X or Windows. We're WiFi-equipped, we're friendly,
and it's free. Join us if you can!


At our Thursday, May 7th FOSS meeting (as time and interest permit):

Ubuntu's been in the news: Convergence, new touch phones, new version 15.04, "tendering", and more.
We'll feature it in May - including an installation how-to - and have plenty for other-OS users, as well.

2-3PM: FOSS Help Hour (give or take).
Raffle Item demo: ??
Hot Hardware show-and-tell (5-min. each; others?): a USB 3.0 Hub to avoid; SymplePC w/Ubuntu for $89; UbuTab?
The FOSS News: Ubuntu 15.04 released on 4/2; first Ubuntu phone launches in EU; an Ubuntu-Snappy drone; over twenty-million Ubuntu users; Tendering with Ubuntu.
Upcoming events: Convergence (but, still converging); personal anecdotes?
Raffle Item.
Security: Touch-typing tells tales (passwords+); Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow.
Demo: Partition a computer, and install Linux from a bootable Linux thumb drive.
Linux goodness: Did Win8.1 kill your GRUB boot manager? Meet rEFInd (and rEFIt); systemd update (Ubuntu systemd for techies) and future; workSpaces (old in Linux; coming to Win10).
Fotoxx: New Cycle Background tool for Desktop wallpaper.
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 events:

any?

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 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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