[Wylug-admin] Organizing WYLUG

[Phil Driscoll]

On Saturday 03 May 2008, Tom Hall wrote:
> I would not mind being nominally in charge of this, I assume others
> will muck in and I know so many people are up to cool stuff that we
> should be able to get some good talks organised.
> I would like to set a goal of Wed 7th to announce the one on the 12th,
> any ideas or volunteers ?
Ben and I were going to do a talk sometime on XaraLX. It's a superb vector 
graphics application which has been ported to Linux/WxWidgets and almost, but 
not quite, completely GPL'd. As a result of the 'not quite' bit, the Linux 
version is in the doldrums. I've been using it (and it's predecessor on the 
Acorn Platform) since the early 1990s. Ben has done some work on getting it 
to run on the Mac and PPC architecture. There's a tentative plan afoot to 
replace the non-GPL core rendering engine with Cairo which might ressurect 
the project. 

Sadly, I can't make it to the next meeting, but if we're stuck for a speaker 
the meeting after, I'll check that Ben is ok for then.

Cheers
-- 
Phil Driscoll