Re: [free-software-melb] Discussion group and committee election next Thursday 20 June

2013-06-19 Thread Adam Bolte
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 03:10:29PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> I had anticipated having a ThinkPenguin delivery before tonight's
> meeting, but it is currently at Customs (not yet being held, just normal
> processing AFAICT) so won't have that to talk about.

Still waiting on my Ouya device to arrive too. Perhaps Ben has had
more luck? I know some people in Australia have had them arrive.

 
> My existing notebook computer is specifically built by ThinkPenguin to
> work with free software, and we can discuss that more generally too;
> it's not the new shiny though.

I had ordered a machine to work with free software a few months back,
but apparently was still waiting on the parts after a series of delays
(not ThinkPengiun though). When my current laptop started failing I
had to cancel the order and just get something readily available. I'll
bring in what I ended up with and talk about my experiences with it.

-Adam


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Re: [free-software-melb] Discussion group and committee election next Thursday 20 June

2013-06-19 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Sturmfels  writes:

> I'm looking forward to seeing you again next Thursday 20 June for our
> discussion group. This month we'll be looking at some hardware
> purpose-designed for compatibility with free software. Yay! We'll also
> be discussing the H-Node hardware database (details below).

I had anticipated having a ThinkPenguin delivery before tonight's
meeting, but it is currently at Customs (not yet being held, just normal
processing AFAICT) so won't have that to talk about.

My existing notebook computer is specifically built by ThinkPenguin to
work with free software, and we can discuss that more generally too;
it's not the new shiny though.

Another topic of interest is the Software Freedom Day plans.

I'm always prepared to ramble about software freedom news as I've done
on Byte Into It, of course :-)

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  `\   for democracy.” —Carl Sagan |
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Ben Finney

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