There are two free software gatherings this Sunday 25 January 2004.
Both meetings are on the Island of the Manahattoes.
Both meetings are free and open to the public.
GNUbies will throw an Install Fest at 16 Beaver Street which starts at noon
and runs until a few minutes before 5:00 pm. Everybody must be well clear
of the building at 5:01 pm. Full information is provided in the official
invitation below.
The Three Jewels Refuge will host a Free Software Workshop at
211 East Fifth Street which starts at 1:00 pm and runs until 7:00 pm.
This gathering is without formal agenda, but if you are interested in
learning about free software, this is a good place to start. Lisp, logic,
music, quantum weirdness, and the Bourne shell's quote conventions are
perennial topics of discussion. Information about the Three Jewels Free
Software Workshops is provided in the official 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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what="official GNUbies announcement"
edits="stuff about LWE suppressed">
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: lo+gnubies@eskimo.com
Subject: Installfest this Sunday (Jan 25,2004); Linuxworld Expo NOW!
(1) Installfest this Sunday January 25th, 2004 from 12 noon to 5:00pm
(2) Linuxworld Expo NYC 2004 is now over.
(3) Next Gnubies regular meeting February 11, 2004
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(1) This is a reminder that there will be an Installfest this Sunday
January 25th from 12:00pm to 5:00pm(sharp) at 16 Beaver Street.
It is a good idea to come early since it can get busy later and
installations sometimes take time.
Please come if you want to learn, install software, help or have fun.
The location for our Installfests is (thanks to Alex Khalil):
16 Beaver 4th floor
in the Financial District btwn Broadway & Broad
Subway: 4,5 Bowling Green N,R Whitehall
2,3 Wall Street J,M Broad Street 1,9 South Ferry
see also: http://www.16beavergroup.org/about/#directions
All are welcome whether you are coming to help (thanks) to install a new
Free OS for the first time on your current computer, trying out a new
distribution, updating, getting new software, or just coming to watch
ask questions, or to get to know other people interested in Free software.
For those of you who have never been to an Installfest, it is simply
a gathering of people to help each other install Free software on their
computers to ask questions and to enjoy themselves.
It is important to know that if you are installing software, you should
be sure to backup anything you want to save and check out your hardware
first. Also you should be aware that things can go wrong and there may
be risks to man or machine - there are no guarantees.
We look forward to seeing you at the Installfest.
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(3) Our next regular Gnubies meeting will be on the second Wednesday in
February, that is February 11, 2004. In a week or so the details will be
up on our website and an announcement will go out shortly before the
meeting.
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As always the most up-to-date information is on the website at:
http://ww.gnubies.org
(or alternately http://www.eskimo.com/~lo/linux)
We look forward to seeing you at our events.
Gnubies
The GNU/Linux/FreeOS Beginners' Group
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what="official Three Jewels Outreach blurb"
edits="zero">
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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