[Sussex] CORRECTION, _21ST_ November. Re: Portsmouth LUG November meeting

Lisi Reisz lisi.reisz at gmail.com
Sun Nov 15 22:28:36 UTC 2015


On Sunday 15 November 2015 22:00:00 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> The next meeting of the Portsmouth LUG will be on Saturday, 14th November

CORRECTION, _21ST_ November.

> 2015 from 1:00 to 6:00 at the Broadoaks Social Club, Hilsea.
>
> For details of the venue and meeting please see here:
> http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html
>
> You are all, as usual, warmly invited.
>
> We have a speaker this month.  Dr Jacek Kopecky, a Senior Lecturer at the
> School of Computing of the University of Portsmouth, will talk about the
> new Atom.io editor, of which he is one of the developers, being a
> contributor to Atom's vim-mode package.
>
> He will talk in particular about how it is open, and built on Web
> technologies, so it's quite easy to hack. He is using it on a Mac, but Atom
> also runs on Linux.
>
> Jack was an avid Linux user from 1995, until he switched to
> Mac in 2010; sometimes he still misses the configurability and openness of
> Linux.  Moreover, he likes open source.  This could be an opportunity to
> increase Jack's nostalgia for Linux to such an extent that he will start to
> use it again. ;-)
>
> There will also be an opportunity to install Linux for those who want it,
> but cannot manage the install themselves; to help each other out with our
> problems: in other words to spread the word.  It is enjoyable just to have
> Linux and FLOSS chat.
>
> Come to help and be helped. Come to chat and come to proselytise.
>
> I hope to see some of you on Saturday!
>
> Lisi




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