[brlug-general] BR-LUG: new guy in Lafayette
Brad Bendily
bendily at gmail.com
Sat Jul 5 16:20:12 CDT 2008
welcome aboard.
bb
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Adam Melancon <adammelancon at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Members of the Acadiana Open Source Group will meet at the Lafayette Public
> Library at 301 West Congress Street on Saturday June 21 from 2 to 4 PM to
> demonstrate installation of free operating systems for the public. "
>
> How did I miss this? I'm the Systems Administrator for the Lafayette Public
> Library and I didn't even know this was going on in my building. I've got
> linux running all over the place behind the scenes at the library... crazy
> small world...
>
> Too many meetings going on over there and I guess that's one we didn't have
> to setup for.
>
> Ha!
>
> Adam Melancon
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Tim Fournet <tfournet at tfour.net> wrote:
>>
>> http://acadianaos.org/
>>
>>
>> Adam Melancon wrote:
>> > Well, there used to be Lafix (Lafayette Linux Users Group), but not so
>> > much anymore.
>> > http://www.brlug.net/link.php3?id=16
>> >
>> > Adam Melancon
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Jonathan Kulp <jon at jonathankulp.com
>> > <mailto:jon at jonathankulp.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > That's good news, Adam! Nice to hear. I know that there are a few
>> > UL
>> > students who use Linux, and in fact I was inspired to try it myself
>> > after seeing a computer science student running Ubuntu. I don't
>> > think
>> > it's very widespread, though. I'm going to do my part to spread
>> > awareness by using my new Ubuntu-loaded laptop in the classroom this
>> > fall. I just got a new Toshiba laptop and now I can use all the
>> > fancy
>> > compiz stuff that grabs people's attention. (Before I had an
>> > older Dell
>> > whose graphics card was incapable of 3D.) Plus I figured out how to
>> > hotplug the laptop with external projectors, something that has
>> > always
>> > been a problem for me since first trying Linux.
>> >
>> > So are there any Linux users get-togethers in Lafayette that you
>> > know
>> > of? Glad to be in touch with y'all. :)
>> >
>> > Jon
>> >
>> > Adam Melancon wrote:
>> > > There's actually a bunch of Linux users here in Lafayette. We
>> > just kind
>> > > of fly under the radar ;)
>> > >
>> > > Adam Melancon
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Jonathan Kulp
>> > <jon at jonathankulp.com <mailto:jon at jonathankulp.com>
>> > > <mailto:jon at jonathankulp.com <mailto:jon at jonathankulp.com>>>
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Dear BR LUG,
>> > >
>> > > Just a note of introduction. I live in Lafayette but decided
>> > to
>> > > subscribe to the BR lug mailing list b/c it seems to be the
>> > closest
>> > > group to me. I haven't seen any mail from the list yet so I
>> > thought I'd
>> > > post something and see if anyone was out there (!).
>> > >
>> > > I'm a music professor at UL Lafayette and I've been a Linux
>> > user for
>> > > about 8 months I guess. Love it, but there don't seem to be
>> > many Linux
>> > > folks around here. Best wishes,
>> > >
>> > > Jon Kulp
>> > > --
>> > > Jonathan Kulp
>> > > http://www.jonathankulp.com
>> > >
>> > >
>> > --
>> > Jonathan Kulp
>> > http://www.jonathankulp.com
>> >
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