[nflug] A modest proposal

Joe josephj at main.nc.us
Fri Mar 3 23:44:50 EST 2006


I haven't been to a meeting in a long time, but for me, that's  walking 
distance in good weather!

Joe

Richard Hubbard wrote:
> 2295 millersport hwy just north of UB
>
> --- Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Where is this place?  One of the main reasons that
>> people don't come to the
>> meetings currently is because they're in downtown
>> Buffalo.
>>
>> This sounds good.  I'm surprised you haven't
>> converted them all to Linux, by
>> now :-)  Of course, we still have the problem of
>> getting people that are
>> willing to present things to the group but this is a
>> good start.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> --- Richard Hubbard <hubbardr at adelphia.net> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I have a thought/idea that could be helpful to the
>>>       
>> group, and I am 
>>     
>>> floating it to see if anyone is interested.
>>> I teach at ITT Technical institute.  ITT is a 2
>>>       
>> year technical training 
>>     
>>> school which, in NY, teaches networking,
>>>       
>> programming, multimedia 
>>     
>>> development and CAD.  (no, we don't have all the
>>>       
>> stuff you see on the 
>>     
>>> commercials.  NYS has to approve those extra
>>>       
>> curricula)
>>     
>>> One of the things we are tasked to do  is
>>>       
>> community involvement.  One 
>>     
>>> thing we can do is provide a meeting place for
>>>       
>> NFLUG for a monthly 
>>     
>>> meeting.  We have several classrooms with
>>>       
>> computers (windows installed), 
>>     
>>> internet connectivity, a XWindow Client box with X
>>>       
>> servers on all the 
>>     
>>> windows boxen (which will allow us to do linux on
>>>       
>> all the machines even 
>>     
>>> if windows is the primary os) and projectors
>>>       
>> /whiteboards for anyone to 
>>     
>>> give a talk.
>>> I've already cleared this with my immediate
>>>       
>> supervisors, and want to 
>>     
>>> know if anyone is interested.
>>> (Bob might be, if for no other reason, so that
>>>       
>> someone else will have to 
>>     
>>> open up the doors on a sunday!) 
>>>
>>> Let me know
>>> Richard Hubbard
>>>
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