Many thanks to Steve Holdaway for tackling the complex area of web development and hosting. Apologies for the technical difficulties of screen projection, that affected the presentation. Between us, we were unaware of the platform change and that this would be likely to impact the display. In future, all equipment combinations should be tested before the evening. People seemed happy with what we got through, none the less. And it was good to be amongst geeks chatting, socialising, & burning CDs, as if this was part of our regular work - more life beyond the screen. Is there a URL for your slideshow please Steve?
Whereas GLU started out with strongest interest from newbies for CLI tips & tuition, that demand waned somewhat. So we are into more advanced areas for the time being, in finding an advocacy core team. Where I see this groundwork going is towards an extra shopfront for our community of interest next year: a weekly Practical Computing course for small / home business sysads, that can receive punters with OS agnosticism and take them forward in data security. The advice found would naturally lead them onto GNU/Linux. It's a growth market, where training is in short supply, prohibitively dear, or just not publicised at all. Thanks also then to everyone who showed up, in support of this regular event. I hope you found it a useful addition to the information culture around Canterbury Linux User Group. Next month, on Wednesday June 1st, we have Derek Smithies demonstrating the Emacs programming environment. This is an editor of which I have heard much mention, but never seen anyone actually making use. So it will be a very informative night, with CLI tips thrown in. Space is available should anyone wish to offer a tutorial on any competing tool (e.g. Vi from Christopher Sawtell?). Now's your chance to book in and save us from me putting Quanta on-screen for comparison purposes, in the second half ;-) Or we could spend the remainder period in informal discussion, as we did last evening - the opportunity is yours. Best wishes, and see you next week, Rik -- Richard Tindall, InfoHelp Services <http://www.infohelp.co.nz>, on: Ubuntu GNU/Linux 5.04 free OS, 2.6.10-5-686 kernel, GNOME 2.10.0 desktop OpenOffice.org 1.1.3, Firefox 1.0.2 browser, Evolution 2.2.1.1 groupware GIMP 2.2.2 graphics, Quanta+ 3.4.0 web-dev-env, gFTP 2.0.18 filetransfer
