Let me start by nominating you as our Life President On 4/26/05, Kiggundu Mukasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > We should learn from these groups........ > > http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/04/18/2159201.shtml > Suddenly, the end of my year as President of the Austin LUG has > arrived. I presided over forty-nine meetings of the LUG, because with > the exception of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years, we met every > Thursday. I wonder, what did I, or the other members, really gain from > those meetings? > > There were only a handful of presentations. One was on a development > project, peless, started one of our members, Paul Elliot. The > discussion of the project itself was interesting, but so were the > details of making it a full-fledged open source project with a > homepage, version control, and input from other programmers. > > There was one meeting when a question about php4 kicked off over an > hour's worth of details from our past President. Much of that time was > devoted to the differences of php4 from php3 in the context of website > use. This young man is so knowledgeable on so many facets of Linux that > I often feel overwhelmed by the recognition of how little I know after > six years of full-time use. > > Another of our members, now our President, made two presentations > during the past year. One on the mathematics involved in cryptography. > Most of the members were somewhat familiar with the use of encryption > tools, but his explanation helped all of us to understand more clearly > how and why increasing the bit depth dramatically increases the > protection it affords......... > > **************** ***************************** > Kiggundu Mukasa # Computer Network Consultancy### > KYM-NET LTD. # Intranets & Internet Solutions# > Plot 80 Kanjokya Street > P.O. Box 24284 Kampala, Uganda > Tel: +256 77 972255 > +256 71 221141 > Fax: +256 31 262122 > ***************************************************************** > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) > > iD8DBQFCbdjY6oXqh9gLHWwRAs6gAJ9+osfEj2x0Ptc0gyL9Ma0yeOL3JwCdGvZT > qSszUW7Kb00W3MNiPXPdk6k= > =jB32 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ >
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