tlug: Feb 13 Meeting Report

[Alberto Tomita <atomita@example.com>]

TLUGers.

I would like to thank you all who came to our technical
meeting last Saturday and helped making it a big success.
Summarizing what happened:

* TLUG snackmaster Shigeo Honda coordinated a group of
  volunteers who secured lunch for everybody.

* and while we enjoyed our pizza and beer, Ron Sears and
  Sean Mannon boot up their laptops running KDE (a great
  GUI, comparable to MS-W... in ease-to-use but far more
  powerful) and Word Perfect.

* TLUG librarian Jonathan Byrne started cataloging all
  our books and CDs

* Austin Kurahone burned the latest edition of the TLUG
  CDs, with the latest 2.2.x kernel updates, KDE 1.1,
  Netscape Communicator/Mozilla, emulators, games, CGIs,
  XFree86 3.3.1, the Monash nihongo archives, the TLUG
  mailing list/web pages archives, and much more

* and Jim Tittsler showed again his talents as auctioneer,
  getting bids on speakers, keyboards, power supplies,
  RedHat CD-ROMs, mouse pads, T-shirts, desktop machines.

The main part was the talk by Steven Baur and Martin Buchholz.
Steve (aka "Mr. XEmacs") talked about the current status of
XEmacs development, answering questions from the audience
that was interested in knowing now only the technical aspects
of XEmacs, but also how the XEmacs team is organized and
coordinating the development. Martin explained his efforts
in optimizing XEmacs, gave a framework for comparing Lisp
and Java, and showed us his vision of the free software/open
source world. Their interaction with TLUG members present
to the meeting was extremely valuable, for them to get
feedback from the audience, and for us to get some of their
experience and wisdom.

Thanks are also due to Stephen Turnbull, for contacting
the guest speakers, to Oliver Bolzer, TLUG Japanese liaison,
and to Stephen Carter, for contacting Temple University
(who also provided us storage space; 4 boxes full of TLUG
assets for use at the meetings are now been kept in the TUJ 
basement floor).

-alberto.
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