At 1:00 pm Sunday 22 February 2004 at the Three Jewels Refuge,
211 East Fifth Street, near Astor Place on the Island of the Manahattoes,
we will attempt to explain what Unix is, what free software is, and we will
attempt to start building a useful thing constructed of free Unix
utilities.
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr
http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/thompsonbio.html
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.html
http://www.fsf.org
http://www.freebsd.org
http://www.netbsd.org
http://www.openbsd.org
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/index.html
http://www.debian.org
http://www.knoppix.net
Note: the default standard Knoppix distribution contains some software
whose licenses do not meet the Free Software Foundation's definition of
"license for free software". Such software may be discovered and removed
by use of vrms and apt-get.
For more information, including how to get to the Three Jewels, see standard
blurb below.
Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
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The Three Jewels Buddhist Refuge and Free Internet Cafe
The Three Jewels Buddhist Refuge runs a broad Free Software and Free
Computer Outreach. Here are some parts of the Outreach:
1. New York City's only Free Internet Cafe based on Free Software.
2. The Free Software Workshops, most of which are held Sundays inside the
Three Jewels. The workshops often combine elements of Install Fests and of
Classes in Free Software.
3. The Computer Donation Program, which accepts gifts of computers, and if
necessary, rehabilitates them, by both hardware repair and operating system
upgrades to free OSes, and gives the improved machines to folk who can make
use of them. Volunteers teach and learn both hardware repair and assembly,
and also the basics of free software. In some special cases volunteers
undertake long term maintenance of donated systems.
4. A growing library of books on computers and programming with free software.
All workshops are free and open to the public. Every member of every free
software org, tribe, drinking club, and family, is invited, without
prejudice, without fear, and without favor. Newcomers are particularly
invited. Come down and join us, even if you are just starting to learn
about free software.
The Three Jewels is a charitable organization and is recognized as such by
the Internal Revenue Service of the United States of America. Thus
donations are tax deductible.
The Three Jewels works with several local free software organizations,
including, but not limited to, LXNY, GNUbies, and the VBB^WTINVBB.
Individual volunteers are always needed, of all degrees, and for some
projects certain alliances of organizations are of use. Do not be afraid
to visit the Free Internet Cafe, or come to a workshop, to discuss
possibilities.
To receive notifications of Three Jewels Free Software and Free Computer
Outreach events and programs, send an email to secretary@lxny.org, with
"Three Jewels" in the subject line, and a request for information in the
body.
http://www.threejewels.org
Three Jewels Refuge and Free Internet Cafe
211 East 5th Street
east of Third Avenue
Island of the Manahattoes
Subway: Eighth Street stop on the N, R, sometimes W, lines; Astor Place on
the 6 line; Third Avenue on the crosstown L line; Lower East Side-Second
Avenue-Houston Street on the F, V lines
Note that some of these lines may not run right every hour of every day.
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