I think efn could take some lessons from the french government. They have passed a law a few months ago that declares that no governmental or eduational institution can use commercial software of any kind for any reason. Pretty cool. On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:54:41AM -0700, Tim Howe wrote: > <my veiw>I think the Linux lab is sort of a test case for EFN to see if they > can get out from under the oppressive yoke of Microsoft. They are a > non-proffit organization and as such need every penny they have. They are > also a free speech oganization I suppose; they help bridge the 'digital > devide'. Free software and free community networks go hand in hand. > Besides, free *nixes rock!</my view> > > I just hope we can overcome the lack of planning and political influences to > get the job done in a decent amount of time. Mad props to Larry for braving > the storm. > > Tim > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > > Dennis J. Eberl > > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:41 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [EUG-LUG:2465] Re: Thursdays meeting... > > > > > > That was a nicely informative, useful reply. > > > > I have no wish to be hit by the drunken bus of progress, but > > aren't your > > plans at EFN a little ambitious if what you are doing is > > trying to attract > > joe public to free *nix as an alternative to Windows? I mean > > who, who is not > > already a member of EUGLUG, is going to even understand > > 1/10th of what you > > are going to show them? The world is full of nervous technophobes. > > > > Hey, now, I am not throwing water on anyone's fire. The more > > the merrier. > > Don't burn the place down, baby, down! > > > > Are you going to deploy a Spanish language box? > > > > Also, might not the meeting after this Thursday be a better > > time to get > > together regarding the wireless modems? They aren't going > > anywhere, and you > > sound very busy. I don't have any time to stand around in a > > crowd this week. > > I'd rather sit down with you over a cup of coffee and show > > you what you have > > to do to make them work. I'd really rather not have to try to get to a > > Thursday evening meeting giving my change over today to a 6 AM to 4 PM > > workday. > > > > Dennis > > > > > > > From: larry a price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:02:30 -0700 (PDT) > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [EUG-LUG:2460] Re: Thursdays meeting... > > > > > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Kent Loobey wrote: > > > > > >> Where is the Thursday night meeting going to be held? > > >> > > >> Thanks. > > >> > > >> Kent > > >> > > > > > > There's two of them, at the present time. > > > > > > One meeting at efn, is focused on doing the necessary prep > > for having a > > > classroom full of linux based public access terminals. so > > far we've got it > > > to the point where we are putting out a mandrake/kde and a > > slackware/gnome > > > box in the classroom, tomorrow night we have plans to > > install OpenBSD on > > > one box and debian on another, in addition we'll be futzing > > around with > > > tomsrtbt as a possible host for clustering and maybe a few > > other things > > > that people will be bringing in. One other thing we might > > think about > > > doing is running snort and analyzing network activity and > > working with > > > patrick to beef up the classroom and office networks. > > > EFN is located at 448 charnelton 1 blk off 5th, next to the jail. > > > > > > mro's 'Rebel Lug' meeting is at mro's in springfield and > > he'll probably > > > post his info to the list. It sounds like it's pretty > > hopping and i know > > > that it's the place for video hardware troubleshooting and > > fast network > > > connections. > > > > > > > > -- Christopher Maujean IT Director Premierelink Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.premierelink.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPg/PGP: 0x5DE74D38 Fingerprint: 91D4 09FE 18D0 27C1 A857 0E45 F8A4 7858 5DE7 4D38
