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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:47:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Gnubies this Wednesday July 9th, Sam Hiser on OpenOffice.org
We are pleased to announce that our meeting this Wednesday, July 9th 2003,
will be on OpenOffice.org by Sam Hiser. This will be a demonstration of
OpenOffice.org 1.0, a preview of OpenOffice.org 1.1 and an OOo Project
Update.
For those of you who don't know OpenOffice.org is the Free Software*
office suite that is continuing to get so much attention as Free Software
possible alternative to Microsoft Office. It can do pretty much anything
that Microsoft Office can and there has greater file format compatibility
with the different versions of Microsoft Office than some of these
versions have with each other. For those previously captive to Microsoft
Office but wanting to move to Free Software, this could be the solution.
It is also on more plqtforms since OpenOffice.org is currently available
for GNU/Linux, Solaris, Windows and, most recently for Mac OS X (X11),
Sam Hiser is a senior contributer, member of the Release Committee and
Community Council of OpenOffice.org,as well as Marketing Project co-Lead for
OOo. He has previously spoken at Gnubies and was actually an
early Gnubies attendee.as well.
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Details of the meeting his bio including links to some to some of his
articles can be found below.
As always the meeting is free and open to the public (but IBM security
procedures mentioned below have to be followed.). A number of us usually
get together after the meeting at a local pub and restaurant to talk
further with the speaker and just enjoy ourselves, we hope you will join
us after the meeting as well.
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Meeting Details:
Date:
Wednesday, January 8, 2003
6:30-7:00
General Questions and Answers
7:00 Presentation by Sam Hiser
"Demonstration of OpenOffice.org 1.0,
Preview of OpenOffice.org 1.1 &
OOo Project Update"
at
The IBM building, 590 Madison Ave.
(57th Street and Madison Avenue)
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As always, the most up-to-date information can be found on our web page
http://www.gnubies.org (or, for now, http://www.eskimo.com/~lo/linux)
As always, we are grateful to IBM for their generous offer of space for
our meetings
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Security Procedures:
To attend the meeting you need to bring a photo ID and provide us with
your full name (as it appears in the photo ID) in advance. You can use
the mailto on the web page at http://www.gnubies.org, reply to this email
if you received it directly, or send email to lo+ibm0307@eskimo.com with
the Subject of July 2003 Gnubies Meeting and with your name in the
message.
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We look forward to seeing you at the meeting.
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BIO
Sam Hiser
co-Lead, Marketing Project
swhiser@openoffice.org <mailto:swhiser@openoffice.org>
www.openoffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org/>
Sam Hiser is an open source advocate and systems consultant to media,
financial services, government and education. He is a senior contributor
and member of the Release Committee of OpenOffice.org.
Mr. Hiser was teaching middle-school English in the Bronx with NYC
Teaching Fellows when he was called to advise Sun Microsystems, Inc.
<http://www.sun.com/> on open source community management and software
marketing. Prior to that, Hiser was a principal and CIO of Reel America
Inc., an aggregator of cultural programming for cable TV and the Internet.
Mr. Hiser speaks frequently to businesspeople, user groups, students,
parents and educators about free software, OpenOffice.org 1.1, Linux, Mac
OS X, Windows and thin-client deployments. His commentary on open source
software development has appeared in
Salon.com
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/03/desktop_linux/?x>,
Linux Journal
<http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6437&mode=thread&order=0>,
c|net
<http://news.com.com/2100-1046-994264.html?tag=fd_top>,
ZDNet.com,
NewsForge.com
<http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/15/1459259&mode=thread&tid=11>
and slashdot.org.
He holds an MBA from Duke University.
<http://samhiser.blogspot.com/>
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OpenOffice.org gives MS Office a run for no money
http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/...126606,00.html
The OpenOffice.org website
http://www.openoffice.org/
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We are still in the process of setting up our library shelf at Three
Jewels (The Free Internet Cafe at 211 East 5th Street) and will also be
holding smaller meetings for organizers and study groups at that location
starting later this month.
The new Installfest space is still being renovated. An announcement will
go out before the next installfest.
Again we look forward to seeing you at the meeting.
Lyn
Gnubies
The GNU/Linux/Free OS Beginners' Group
*Actually it is dual licensed, with one of the licences the GPL
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