[Wylug-discuss] October meeting......

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 23 Sep 2005 18:56, steve kirk wrote:
> On Friday 23 September 2005 14:36, Jim Jackson wrote:
> > Well funny old world......
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Jim Jackson wrote:
> > > We have had a long standing offer of a talk for October from a US
> > > outfit Coraid Inc.
> > >
> > > http://www.coraid.com/
> > >
> > > who are coming over for the UK Linux World 5-6 October
> > >
> > > http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/
> > >
> > > The talk is on "EtherDrive - open source network storage" is also
> > > a bit esoteric, and I'm wondering whether it's worth them hanging
> > > on in the UK and coming north for a meeting where we might not
> > > make an audience of 20.
> > >
> > > I'm minded to cancel. Any comments?
> >
> > ....Never mind me minded to cancel, After a couple of emails
> > badgering them, it turns out THEY aren't coming to linuxworldexpo
> > afterall and so can't attend at our next meeting.
> >
> > So No speakers for October.
> >
> > OK do we have a few people prepared to just talk for 10-15mins
> > about their favorite Linux application, or what they use Linux for?
>
> I've been using a rather neat DTP package called Scribus which is a
> fine argument for not having to buy either a Win box and Corel (or
> equivalent) or the less awful alternative of buying a Mac and using
> Quark or one of the many alternative commercial DTP packages
>
> Its much better than trying to frig publication layouts with Word or
> O-Office and better then KWord which tries to do some of the same
> things
>
> I'd be happy to do 15 mins on the fine art of DTP and equally happy
> to squash anyone who tried to persuade me to use TEX or LATEX instead
>
Would 10 minutes or so on getting analogue camcorder to DVD disk without 
the use of a studio suite be any interest?

Anne
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