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2nd
Wednesday
Meeting Agenda
Feb. 9,
2005
SOCIAL
TIME
6:15-6:45
PM
Random Access
6:45-7:30 PM
FLOSS
7:30-9:00
PM
MEETING
PLACE:
North Branch
Reformed Church
Route 28
Bridgewater, NJ
HOW
TO GET THERE:
Driving on Route 22 West: Turn right at the
light at Milltown Road. Go to the end of the street. The church is
directly across the street.
Driving on Route 22
East: Continue past Milltown Road (no left turn allowed) to the
Route 28 off ramp (next exit). At the end of the ramp turn left onto
Route 28 and continue about 0.6 miles to the church (on your
right).
NOTE: The church is exactly one mile East of the
main entrance (at Orr Drive on Route 28) to Raritan Valley Community
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FLOSS - Free/Libre Open Source
Software
Rich Byrne, 1st Vice-President and past President of the New Jersey Computer Club, will
lead our meeting.
We will look at the concepts behind
FLOSS , the type of free that is part of the definition (free
as in beer and
free as in speech).
We will take a look at the
World Wide movement toward Open source Software. We'll examine
the
consequences of the Open Source Movement and take a look at
people behind the scenes.
We can then take a look at the most
popular open source software available for the Windows operating
system including
Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird,
OpenOffice.org, and
The Gimp.
Finally we will look at the contents
of a bootable
Linux disk from
Knoppix (click on the English version) containing all of the
above and much more.
And it is all FREE.
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