The monthly CLUG meetings continue with the March meeting being on this coming Tuesday 8 March at 7.30 pm in the St Albans Community Resource Centre, 1047 Colombo Street: details on where it is, map etc are here:
http://clug.net.nz/index.php/MeetingSchedule This meeting will consist of two talks, one my each of the two Sawtells. Blender ======= Caleb Sawtell is one of our younger members, but has developed an affinity with the 3D model creation program Blender. This is a powerful program, but has a user interface that is quite different and somewhat off-putting to newbies. Caleb will take us through the basics of Blender, and hopefully a nice demonstartion. Its great to see a contribution from someone as young as Caleb, lets have a big turnout to support him! A Desktop Potpourri =================== Chris Sawtell is one of our older members, but still seems to be able to remember his root AND user passwords! It's a bit hard to get out of Chris exactly what he is going to do, and he's too busy preparing slides to get any sense out of! The best description seems to be his last email to me which describes it as: "It'll be generally about the KDE desktop. I'm going to show off Audacity, but there will be particular emphasis on getting ink on paper." - I know that Chris has spent a lot of time on "Desktop Publishing" programs like Scribus, Inkscape, Kile, LyX, TeX, and LaTeX. Like Blender, some of these programs have a steep initial lerning curve, but you will be well rewarded once you get past first base. Its great to see a contribution from someone as old^h^h^hexperienced as Chris, lets have a big turnout to support him! Supper ====== Due to a few costs we thought that instead of supplying supper, we would supply tea and coffee, and ask members to "bring a plate" - now don't do anything fancy, just the half packet of bikkies you have in the cupboard will be fine. Remember it's like pot luck dinner, you don't have to feed everyone, just a few nibbles is fine. Entry ===== There will be the normal $2.00 cover charge, honestly folks we need to pay for the hall and the projector and the tea/coffee. We try to keep costs to a minimum. Details of the finances are open to all: http://clug.net.nz/index.php/DavidKirk
