[luau] Events for you

[R. Scott Belford]

I want to remind you that twice a week we have Linux events for you.  HOSEF, 
the non-profit backend for LUAU, MPLUG, and any other Linux initiative anyone 
wishes to engages in, has public lab/teaching sessions every Tuesday and 
Saturday.  On Tuesdays from 6-9 and on Saturdays from 10-1 we are at the 
Stadium Marketplace Pricebusters doing all things Linux and Open Source.  
This is EVERY Tuesday and Saturday unless otherwise noted.  Some of our 
officers may begin to offer other times to come by.  www.hosef.org/when.html 
will link you to directions.

If you haven't been there, or if it has been a while, we have  pretty large 
lab, warehouse space, and a training room with desks and presentation 
equipment at our diposal thanks to the kind folks at Pricebusters.  While the 
primary objective of each gathering is to work on donated PC's, the offer 
stands to help you with anything Open Source related, including installing 
Linux on you own computer.  It is completely informal; there is no such thing 
as being late.  You can come and go at your leisure.  

If you are curious about Linux, but have not touched it, we have a demo 
machine running Mandrake 9, one running Redhat 8, one running the LTSP, one 
with Debian gnu/linux about to be installed, and several other computers 
waiting for you to practice installing or configuring stuff on.  We have a 
few machines that we will soon test in hopes that they can support a few thin 
clients.

To test the large rollouts we will have, we have a dual athlon/1.5 gb ram 
server to test large numbers of clients.  This machine is here to use for 
testing and researching any issues that may arise in the installations we 
will conduct in the years to come. 

YOU are always welcome.  These gatherings are a great socializer for our LUAU 
here, and it is a fine opportunity to do some good ala the HOSEF mission.  If 
there is something you want to learn, please come by.  In the months to come 
we will begin to offer free classes.  If there is something you want to 
teach, or have taught to you, please let it be known.  We are here for you to 
learn how to love Linux and Open Source software.

aloha

scott