[Lincs] Re: [Peterboro] Still three lectures left!

Marc Mc Guinness marc at mcguinness.de
Wed Jul 21 16:40:53 BST 2004


Hey!

Ben Francis wrote the following on 21.07.2004 17:31:
> Marc Mc Guinness wrote:
> 
>>
>> We're still looking for volunteers on the following three topics for 
>> our real-life meeting of LLUG on Saturday 11th September 5pm - 9pm at 
>> Boston Squash Club:
>>
>> -> *Open Office* (e.g. What is it? Can it read my M$ Documents? ...)
>>
>> -> *Mozilla Project* (Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird)
> 
> 
> I suppose if there are no other takers I could do a talk on one or both 
> of these. Out of the two my preference would be the Mozilla project but 
> I'd be happy to do a single talk covering both. A focus could be a more 
> gradual migration to Open Source software using these applications in a 
> Windows operating system initially, before making the big jump of a new 
> OS. I use both suites of software on a regular basis in both Windows and 
> GNU/Linux and have converted a few friends :)

Wow! That sounds good! For how long would you like to talk about a 
"soft" migration with Mozilla and Open Office? 30 minutes?

Marc

>> -> *Basic Linux security on desktops* (e.g. personal firewalls, virus 
>> scanning, linux permissions)
> 
> 
> Sorry can't help there, I'm hopeless on these things! I would love to 
> hear a talk on these topics though.
> 
> Of course, this means I actually HAVE to go to the Real Life(TM) meeting 
> now! :P

*hehe*

I'm very much looking forward to meeting you all in real life ;)

Marc



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