[KLUG Advocacy] MAC Football is almost here! Go Knights!

[Adam Williams]

>>>Keep your eye on our meeting schedule online:
>>>  http://kalamazoolinux.org/meetings/schedule.php3
>>>It appears that October is currently open, but the schedule is 
>>>filling up fast.  We're already scheduled into September.
>>>Since the schedule is open, you could GIVE a presentation!   :-)
>>Cool!  What would people like to have it on?
>I'm overstepping my authority.  You need to get with our program
>director and make sure he doesn't already have plans for that date, 
>and then work out a presentation with him.  (Adam Williams)

There are no current plans for October.

I'd like to have a series on several of the great but overlooked GNOME
applications:  Mr. Project, gLabel, GNOME Meeting, SodiPodi, etc... But
I haven't been able to pull in -application- type presentations.

Our currently requested list of topics is:
Open Office Macros and Basic
SGML: Huh?  (XSLT, etc...)
Multimedia and Linux (Video and Audio editing)
What is .NET? (And its relation to SOAP/XML-RPC/Mono, etc...)
SSL
DNS servers: bind, djbdns, etc...
LTSP

Of course this list is not a restriction upon acceptable topics.  People
don't often send in requests (unfortunately).

>You can do it privately (programdirector@kalamazoolinux.org), 
>or join our "speakers" list.
>>>I might take you up on that.  Check with me when your plans are
>>>finalized and you're ready to buy tickets.
>>>I don't mind!  Remember I'm a Central grad, so that's fine with me!  :-)

These are football teams right? :)

>>He he he, another potential closet UCF fan.  If you like Daunte
>>Culpepper, you already are!  ;-PPP
>Apathy over who wins or loses that game doesn't make me a UCF fan.  :-)

I'm apathetic about if the game even happens.  So that must make me a
fan of all the teams.

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