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LOCAL: (Colorado) CLUE Newsletter, December 1995
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Subject: LOCAL: (Colorado) CLUE Newsletter, December 1995
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CLUE Newsletter, December 1995
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The Colorado Linux Users & Enthusiasts (CLUE), normally meets the
third Thursday of every month. The next meeting will be at
7:00pm on December 21st. The location will be Smoky Hill High
School, located at 16100 E. Smoky Hill Rd. in southeast
Aurora.
CLUE is for anyone with an interest in Linux, whether you are an
expert, or just interested and want to know more about the
Internet and Operating System phenomena that Linux
represents. All interested parties are invited to attend.
Let's learn from each other!
For more information, or to be added/removed from the CLUE
mailing list contact Joel at 303-784-2795 or E-Mail:
joel@mrg.uswest.com, or attend a meeting, and turn in your
information there. There is no cost for membership or
newsletter subscription via E-Mail.
Future Meeting dates will be:
Q1/96 January 18, February 15, March 21
Q2/96 April 18, May 16, June 20
Directions to Smoky Hill High School: Take Parker south from
I-225, to Quincy. There will be a shopping center on the
left, and a Stoplight. Take a left on Quincy. Then the first
stoplight with a right turn will be Smoky Hill Road. Turn
right onto Smoky Hill, cross Chambers (a light), and then
turn right at Laredo (a stop light), then left into the
School parking lot. Go past the main entrance, and to the
activities entrance.
Vendors are encouraged to attend, make Linux-related
announcements, etc. WorkGroup Solutions will be giving out
door prizes at the December meeting.
Questions and Information: joel@mrg.uswest.com
Topics:
Current News
Next Meeting Topic (Dec 21, 1995)
CLUE Linux CD Library
Presenters Needed
Notes From Last Meeting (November 9, 1995)
Help Wanted/For Hire/Wanted/For Sale
Administrivia/Credits
Current News
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Early next year Rich Maginn and his students will be presenting
an Internet / Worldwide Web hands on workshop using the Smoky
Hill network. This will be available to anyone who cares to
attend that particular CLUE meeting. There may be a donation
requested to help Smoky Hill buy more computer equipment, this
has not yet been determined. More information to come, stay
tuned!
If you have any announcements or news for this section of the
newsletter, please send it to the editor, joel@mrg.uswest.com
Next Meeting Topic (Dec 21, 1995)
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The December Topic will be by Joe Anthony, and Doug Fowler Dec
21, 1995. A student perspective on Linux at Smoky Hill, What it
is used for, how it fits, and how it benefits the Students now
and in the future. The intention is to remove potential fear of
Linux for those who don't know Linux, and bring greater
appreciation of Linux to those that do know it.
Following the presentation will be plenty of time for
socializing, giving assistance to others, and receiving
assistance. Happy Holidays to everyone!
CLUE Linux CD Library
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CLUE maintains a "library" of donated CD distributions. CLUE
meeting attendees are free to take any distributions they would
like to try from the library, and are encouraged to donate
unneeded distributions. The library's goal is to encourage
experimentation with Linux for those who have not yet tried it,
and to enable easy trial of unfamiliar distributions.
Don Lewis is currently the CLUE Librarian.
Presenters Needed
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We would like your ideas for presenters/speakers, and topics for
both Meeting presentations, and also Newsletter articles. Please
help; supply either or both for us. Volunteers are especially
appreciated.
Notes From Last Meeting (November 9, 1995)
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by Mark Bolzern
Presented at the November 9, 1995 meeting, was the topic Linux at
Work, presented by Mark Bolzern.
Using evidence from WorkGroup Solutions customer files, Mark
stated that Linux is now in use virtually all Fortune 2000
companies, and yet management for the most part still asks
"What's Linux?"
Just like the original IBM PC and it's clones, which set the
standard for computer hardware, Linux is so inexpensive, and so
useful that people bring it in to get the job done, whatever that
is. In corporate culture it is easier to just do something, and
apologize later than it is to get permission.
Linux is following exactly the same acceptance model that the IBM
PC did in the early 80s. People bring a product into a company
because it helps them accomplish what they need to do. No one
but immediate co-workers know about it. Management generally is
not told at all. Then co-workers start seeing how useful it is,
and use it too. Then because of pressure from workers, immediate
supervisors get involved and departmental funds are used.
Finally MIS and upper management figure it out, and then are at a
loss as to how to deal with it. This is how corporate America is
being overrun by Linux, because it is less expensive, and more
useful than what Microsoft has to offer. Like all true
revolutions, it is starting underground, among students, with the
rank and file people, and has only a few significantly visible
leaders.
Just like the IBM PC set the open standard for hardware, Linux is
in the process of setting the open standard for the Operating
Systems Level.
Mark reiterated a fair amount of history, and drew parallels to
the events in the history of Linux to prove his points. Mark
participated materially in the release and acceptance of the IBM
PC, as well as being one of the founders of the Internet. Mark
was involved in writing the original ethernet packet protocols,
and making some of the original connections in the early 70s, and
has continued to participate ever since. A more complete
biography, along with a writeup on the significance of Linux is
available in the file
ftp://ftp.wgs.com/pub2/wgs/lxsig.txt
After this introduction, Mark opened the interactive part of the
meeting by asking people in the audience to tell their stories
about how they use Linux at work. Quite number of people spoke
up about how they were using Linux systems as X-Terminals at
work, or to access their work systems from home, for E-Mail, for
Internet news, Graphics, PC-Lan server, for learning Unix, and
for fun. Among other uses, the use of Linux as a general
workstation or as a general server instead of much higher priced
Unix boxes, or crash prone PCs seemed common.
These Linux systems generally sat on someone's desk serving as a
workstation, but often did server tasks at the same time.
In most cases management had not known of the use of Linux till
well after the systems were installed. In some cases
justification had to be made to management first... and sometimes
Management did not believe that copying one CD onto many machines
was legitimate. In almost all cases the user of Linux said that
the Linux system was less expensive than the alternatives, and
generally did a better job. Mostly people learned of Linux from
a friend, who in turn had done the same.
A number of people said that having the source code to the OS
available, and access to the developers of the product on the
Internet was far better tech support than they obtained from
manufacturers that they had dealt with.
All in all it was an excellent session, and Mark wants to thank
everyone that came, and especially those that spoke up and
participated.
Help Wanted/For Hire/Wanted/For Sale
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Following are community service items, to have your item posted,
please email it to joel@mrg.uswest.com There is presently no
cost for this service.
Help Wanted:
WorkGroup Solutions; We are always looking for additional
employees as we grow. Our primary need at the moment is a
top salesperson who has experience in the bookstore and/or
software sales. Must have existing high level contacts in
the computer industry. We have added on the average a new
person about once a month for the last year. We need
resumes from people for the following areas: Sales both
outbound & phone, data entry, technical support, Product
assembly-packing-shipping, graphic design, bookkeeping, and
more. Typing skills & Linux knowledge a plus. If you'd like
to work for a fast growing company small enough to be like a
family, then please send your resume to mark@wgs.com
Linux Consultants for hire in Colorado:
David Martin, david@large.com 303-680-8207
Items for sale:
none at this time, please submit some!
Items wanted:
none at this time, please submit some!
Administrivia/Credits
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This is the newsletter for the Colorado Linux Users and
Enthusiasts (CLUE). This Newsletter will be written and sent out
every month prior to the CLUE meeting. You may, and in fact are
encouraged to make copies of this newsletter and E-Mail, Post,
Send, it to anyone you like. Please send it to friends, post it
on BBS, and physical bulletin boards at your school, office,
computer stores, bookstores, etc. Help CLUE grow. Please repost
this newsletter, or just the meeting notice. Possible posting
locations could also include any Internet newsgroups you
participate in where interest in Linux may reside. If this
newsletter or knowledge of CLUE don't exist where you are
looking, put it there! We can use all the help we can get.
Credits:
CLUE is currently sponsored by Smoky Hill High School. WorkGroup
Solutions, Inc., a local Colorado company, has donated the time
and talents of their staff in forming CLUE and getting it going.
Among its contributions, has WGS administered the database used
to e-mail the newsletter out to all subscribers. CLUE thanks Mark
Bolzern, WGS' President.
Users of any flavor of Linux, or just anyone with interest in
Linux is welcome to attend. There are currently no dues, no
membership fees, and no cost to attend meetings. The Library is
free to donate to and take from for all meeting attendees.
Donations of Hardware are appreciated by Smoky Hill High School,
and are tax deductible. So if your company is upgrading
depreciated 386 or higher PC hardware, think of the Linux group
at Smoky Hill! Contact Rich Maginn at rich@stega.smoky.org if
you have any hardware to donate.
Officers of CLUE:
President Steve Martin smartin@mrg.uswest.com
Newsletter Editor Joel Noble joel@mrg.uswest.com
Librarian Don Lewis
Other officers to be determined if and when they are elected,
volunteer, or are conscripted.
This is your newsletter, please submit material!
This file is formatted as setext for easy reading and
automated processing. How do you like it?
Happy Holidays!
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