Meeting-20101211

WPLUG will have a General User Meeting and presentation on Saturday, December 11, 2010, starting at 11am at the Wilkins School Community Center.

Schedule for the Day

10:30am - Doors open, set up
11:00am - Business Meeting starts
11:30am - Featured Presentation
12:30pm - Meeting ends, everyone out. We are likely to go to D's 6pack or Square Cafe for lunch.

Speaker/Presentation

The Future of the Linux Desktop, a "table topics" discussion run by Beth Lynn Eicher of whatwillweuse.com

We will have an open discussion with the following questions to guide the discussion:

• Will 2011 be the year of the Linux desktop?
• Do tablets and smart phones make the desktop irrelevant?
• What can you do with the Linux desktop?
• What can't you do with a Linux desktop?
• Are you using Free Software on other operating systems such as Firefox and OpenOffice.Org? If so, do you feel this helps or hurts the Linux desktop?
• What distributions are friendliest to desktop use?
• Where have you seen the Linux desktop deployed?

Meeting Minutes

To be added.

Meeting Staff

If you would like to volunteer to assist with this meeting, please add your name to one or more of the categories below.

• Host: Your name here
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• Donuts/Bagels: Your name here
• Setup: Your name here, Your name here
• Clean Up: Your name here, Your name here

Carpooling

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