Just a few more points to throw in here - In the short time I've been in Haifux, it's been mostly a 'vote-with-your-feet' club. People show up to lectures which interest them, and speak in favor of them on the mailing list. The reason, I believe, we mostly have our "tight-knit" "linux-related" "lectures" (taking all three terms with a grain of salt), is that the topics we choose grow mostly out of the heavily community-oriented Linux/F/OSS... er... community. That is, where Microsoft might [send someone to] give a lecture about .NET, the body to give a lecture about upcoming versions of Perl, for example, would be the perl mongrels themselves.
Therefore, the other-OS-tolerance is there, just on different topics. So while a lecture about "here's how wireless networking drivers work in Windows" wouldn't be so interesting, I believe, to Haifux-goers, a lecture about "here's how to get Windows wireless networking drivers to work in Linux using ndiswrapper" - which would certainly include parts of the former - would be very interesting to many of us. Other lectures which might be of interest, of relation to this topic are (off the top of my head) - * An introduction to WiPeer, when (or perhaps more interestingly - while) it is being ported to Linux * Open formats - Opendocument and its implementation in various word processors, perhaps including MS's * Writing cross-platform software (I can already see the subtitle... "or: why Firefox is so damned slow on Linux") * Something "heavier" - design principles comparison between the NT kernel and Unix-style kernels (please don't stone me :)) -- Protect your digital freedom and privacy, eliminate DRM, learn more at http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm Ohad Lutzky --------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
