Date: Oct 10/30/15 1:48 PM Subject: BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Emacs - Weds, Nov 4, 2015 From: Will Rico When: Wednesday, November 4, 6:30 - 8:30PM Location: Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Directions http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html Also easily accessibly by T. Notes 1) Please note the location is different from BLU's standard MIT meeting location. 2) Akamai has generously agreed to provide space and 'free as in food' for this meeting. Thank you to our sponsor! http://www.akamai.com/ 3) RSVP is not required, but helps me plan food. You can RSVP by emailing me or RSVP'ing on Meetup.com: http://meetu.ps/2MwKjr Summary Whether you live in Emacs or think it is an icecream store, please join use for this introduction of Emacs and ensuing discussion. We are pleased to have Aaron Bello of Hosttor as our speaker. About Emacs https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ About Aaron Bello Aaron Bello is an engineer, entrepreneur and a computer programmer. He is the founder and CEO of Hosttor Inc., a technology and consulting company based in Boston, Massachusetts. He has work on various projects with universities, governments, corporations and organizations. Aaron started his IT journey at a local computer workshop in 1998. When he was in university, he developed an interest in programming languages after taking BASIC, COBOL, Fortran, Pascal, C and C++, VB and other classes. How Aaron Uses Emacs Aaron now uses and lives in GNU Emacs daily for note taking, to-do lists, time tracking, chat on IRC, twitter, creating documents with LaTex and org-mode, checking mail, news, RSS feeds, writing article and posting to PBN, playing chess, developing and managing all websites projects with HTML, CSS, PHP, JS, Python, Django, API, SSH, FTP, SCP, Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, Vagrant, Web-servers and many more. More Upcoming Meetings Digital Photo Management Nov 18 at MIT http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-nov Bit Coin Introduction Dec 2 at Akamai http://meetu.ps/2MwJBD Linux InstallFest LVIII Dec 5 at MIT http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-ifest58 _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/announce