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Re: OS/2 User Group issues...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard Wei-Hao Pan)
Fri Apr 7 10:58:41 1995
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In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 06 Apr 1995 17:25:44 -0400.
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Reply-To: pan@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 10:58:01 EDT
From: Howard Wei-Hao Pan <pan@MIT.EDU>
# 2) How can we expand the membership of our User Group?
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I guess the first question the OS/2 User Group should ask itself is what do the
people on campus need. I am a very new comer to OS/2, and so far I've only seen
the agenda for one of the group meetings, and one issue of the Newsletter
that's in the /mit/os2 locker so maybe my comments aren't fair. But I thought
the topics discussed were awfully development oriented. Given that MIT does
have a great hacking tradition, there may still be other topics of interest to
the average MIT user. For example, I think people would probably be very
interested in learning how they can take advantage of their dorm ethernet
connection inside of OS/2. Maybe we need to develop a suite of Athena
applications for the OS/2 users. Also given that MIT has a really large UNIX
user population, (I know I would be interested in this), maybe we could put
together a package for installing a UNIX-like interface over the OS/2 shell.
Instead of having each individual user try and figure out what is necessary to
install and to compile, we could facilitate this process even more by having a
distribution image (sort of like what Linux has). These are just a couple of my
ideas.
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