Yup, this confirms my suspicion that the French are _totally_ fos.
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> From: Christopher Maujean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 13:33:25 -0700
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [EUG-LUG:2474] Re: Thursdays meeting...
>
> Huh, thought it had already happend but can't find the article anymore.
> heres one about the beginning of the process, from early 2000
>
> http://fyi.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/03/08/france.open.source/
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:11:21PM -0700, Tim Howe wrote:
>> 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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