[brlug-newbies] Future Direction of the Linux SIG/BRLUG Newbies Group

[Dustin Puryear]

Excellent!

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Monday, May 8, 2006, 11:25:50 AM, you wrote:

> I met this past Saturday with the club Education Committee and
> beginning with June 5th at 6 PM in the computer lab, we will be
> adding an addtional monthly workshop to the SIG schedule. So, the
> workshops will be on the 1st and the 3rd Monday of each month, at 6
> PM, in the computer lab. Hopefully this will help everyone come up
> to speed faster and will also allow us to expand the size of the SIG
> by decreasing the time of the workshop cycle from 6 months to three
> months and doing 4 InstallFests per year. 

> If there is a particular area that you have an interest in and are
> willing to facilitate a workshop associated with that area, please
> let us know. We need some more workshop facilitators. 

> Also, Russ and Mark are working on solving the dual boot problem
> with the lab computers. We are evaluating several options including
> possibly putting a removable drive bay in each lab computer with a
> separate hard drive for the Linux installation. I will update
> everyone as more information comes available. 

> We also discussed setting up workshops for many of the open source
> cross platform programs like The Gimps, Audacity, Inkscape, Firefox,
> Thunderbird, Blender, and Open Office, to name a few. 

> Ed




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