[brlug-newbies] Linux Desktop SIG Workshop, Monday, November 5, 2007

[EdLinuxBox]

Greetings all, 

The next workshop of the Linux Desktop SIG will be Monday evening, November 
5th at 6 PM in the Linux Lab. In this workshop we will start out by doing 
some hands on exercises regarding the Linux File System as a continuation of 
the previous workshop. If you have a USB thumb drive, bring it with you and 
we will experiment with mounting it to different mount points and learn hands 
on how some of this stuff works. 

Next I will do a demonstration (finally) of how to use DeVeDe, the sweet Linux 
program that lets you take pretty much ANY video file and create a DVD that 
is playable on both your computer and your set top DVD player. This exercise 
will lead into the opportunity to preview the first of several GIMP (Gnu 
Image Manipulation Program) Tutorial DVD's that I have put together, and, 
pending board approval, will be available for purchase, or, if you wish, you 
can download the tutorials yourself and create your own DVD's. 

Finally, if we have network connectivity, we are going to try and get all of 
the lab computers communicating with each other so that we can share files 
across the network. 

Those that have laptops are encouraged to bring and use them to allow others 
to use the lab computers. We had a total of around 30 people at the last 
workshop so workstations are at a premium. Finally, those members that wish 
to use their own machines for the exercises are encouraged to bring them as 
well. 

See everyone Monday evening

Ed

PS: Happy Halloween too!