East Side Meeting
Presentations This Month
Can a devout EMACS user find happiness using a GUI Editor
Dennis Kibbe, Mesa Community College Linux Instructor, will give a presentation on three useful extensions to the GNOME gedit text editor. See how you can make this simple editor more versatile and fun to use."
Saving Money by Using Linux with a virtualized Windows environment to ease the transition.
Brian will preview his ScaLE OSSIE talk
Ease the migration to Linux, save time and money, while keeping a no maintenance version of Microsoft Windows desktop to pick up the slack on any software that does not have a Linux equivalent. Employees don't have a visible difference on their desktops. Companies get to save money and IT effort.
Using GNU/Linux to deploy Microsoft Windows in a multi-campus K12 environment reduces annual desktop and server licensing costs. In this session, you'll learn how to realize many of the benefits of Free Software without throwing out all your essential, windows only, educational and administrative software. You can realize additional savings by moving to Free Software applications.
Students, teachers and staff get to keep using the essential software software they require to get their work done, but with better stability and flexibility. Using GNU/Linux as the deployment infrastructure also improves security and reduces firefighting for IT.
The presentation also includes tips on how to get users to accept and even request Free software, as well as tips on when not try do a transition to Free and Open Source Software.
When: 7:00PM to about 9:00PM
Where: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa
