Main Topic: The Linux Crystal Ball
Our speaker is: Marcel Gagne
Gather around and gaze into Marcel’s Linux crystal ball for a peek at the future. What’s going on? What does it mean? Where are we all going? And what is it going to be like when we get there? All that and some cool desktop demos.
Marcel is an award-winning author and columnist, probably best known for his Cooking with Linux column which appears monthly in Linux Journal. His best-selling Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye! (now in its second edition) is the premier guide for those wishing to take the plunge into desktop Linux. His first book was the acclaimed Linux System Administration: A User’s Guide. His most recent book is Moving to the Linux Business Desktop. As if that’s not enough, he’s written numerous articles on Linux and Open source projects for various publications including Linux Journal, InformIT, Unix Review, !SysAdmin magazine and several others. He also appears regularly on radio and on TV as the Linux guy on Tech TV’s Call for Help.
If you’ve been missing MUG meetings lately, this meeting will be a great opportunity for you to get caught-up with what’s going on in the world of Linux and Free software. In fact, this is also a great chance for you to bring a friend, to introduce them to the idea that we have a choice in what we run on our computers.
links Marcel mentioned
Secondary Topic: Linux Powered Office Infrastructure
For our December 12th meeting, we’ll be devoting the entire evening to demos and discussions of a complete Free Software back-office suite. So, for the October meeting, we’ll start the planning for this. If you have a favorite Free/Open Source technology that you find useful in your business/home/school, such as Webservers, Databases, Mail servers and anything else, then bring it up during our second topic, and we can get it added into the schedule for December.
FREE STUFF
We still have books to give out that Jim Glutting brought back from Linux World.
Duane also picked up a couple of shirts from the Ohio LinuxFest and a copy of “The Offical Ubuntu Book” with DVD (release 6.06 LTS) which he’s decided to give away.
You must be a member to win one of these valuable prizes
MUG T-Shirts and Polos
The MUG T-Shirts and Polo shirts are in and they turned out awesome. In fact, they came in just in time for the Ohio Linux Fest in Columbus, where a whole bunch of us got to show our MUG spirit .
We’ll have the shirts for sale at the October meeting. The prices are extremely reasonable too. The T’s are $10/each and the Polos are $20/each. BUT, paid members will get a $5 discount on their first T-Shirt and also on their first Polo. They can buy additional shirts at the regular price.
These shirts are going to go fast, so be the first on your block to have one (or more).