That sounds pretty amazing.  Where did you learn about this?  I would like
to show my office managers..

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Christopher Maujean
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 12:11 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [EUG-LUG:2470] Re: Thursdays meeting...
>
>
> 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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
>
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