[GNUz] GLU report 5/5/5

[Richard Tindall]

Many thanks to Steve Holdaway for tackling the complex area of web
development and hosting. Apologies for the technical difficulties of
screen projection, that affected the presentation. Between us, we were
unaware of the platform change and that this would be likely to impact
the display. In future, all equipment combinations should be tested
before the evening. People seemed happy with what we got through, none
the less. And it was good to be amongst geeks chatting, socialising, &
burning CDs, as if this was part of our regular work - more life beyond
the screen. Is there a URL for your slideshow please Steve?

Whereas GLU started out with strongest interest from newbies for CLI
tips & tuition, that demand waned somewhat. So we are into more advanced
areas for the time being, in finding an advocacy core team. Where I see
this groundwork going is towards an extra shopfront for our community of
interest next year: a weekly Practical Computing course for small / home
business sysads, that can receive punters with OS agnosticism and take
them forward in data security. The advice found would naturally lead
them onto GNU/Linux. It's a growth market, where training is in short
supply, prohibitively dear, or just not publicised at all.

Thanks also then to everyone who showed up, in support of this regular
event. I hope you found it a useful addition to the information culture
around Canterbury Linux User Group. 

Next month, on Wednesday June 1st, we have Derek Smithies demonstrating
the Emacs programming environment. This is an editor of which I have
heard much mention, but never seen anyone actually making use. So it
will be a very informative night, with CLI tips thrown in. Space is
available should anyone wish to offer a tutorial on any competing tool
(e.g. Vi from Christopher Sawtell?). Now's your chance to book in and
save us from me putting Quanta on-screen for comparison purposes, in the
second half ;-) Or we could spend the remainder period in informal
discussion, as we did last evening - the opportunity is yours.

Best wishes, and see you next week,

Rik

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