tlug: Draft of April 11 Meeting Announcement

[Craig Oda <craigoda@example.com>]

This is a draft of the meeting announcement for the April 11th
TLUG meeting.  Comments and corrections are welcome.  I propose
that we give this a bit wider announcement base and invite other
free source code / free software groups.   Opinions are welcome.


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	      T O K Y O  L I N U X  U S E R S  G R O U P
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			    M E E T I N G
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		       Open TLUG April 11 Meeting
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		    All Open Source Groups Welcome
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Featuring Netscape's technical leader of their International 
Components Group, Tague Griffith, Speaking on the Open Source 
Code for Netscape and internationalization Efforts for Communicator


All Linux lovers and supporters of open source code
and free software are invited to attend
the April 11 Tokyo Linux Users Group meeting.  Membership
is open to anyone.  There are currently no membership dues.

TLUG is a non-profit, non-political organization established 
in June of 1994 to exchange information on the use of Linux 
and Free Software Foundation tools.  TLUG has an active
mailing list, home page, and regular physical meetings.  
Discussions are primarily held in English.  However, 
everyone is welcome to attend.  We especially want to encourage
Japanese people to attend and will make efforts to 
support a bilingual meeting.  

The TLUG home page is available at
	http://www.twics.com/~tlug/


Pictures and notes of the February 14 meeting, including pictures
are at:
	http://www.twics.com/~tlug/9802/index.html


Notes of the January 14th drinking party, including pictures of some
of the members are available at
	http://www.twics.com/~tlug/9801/index.html


Date: Saturday, April 11, 1998
Lunch Meeting Time: 12:30
Lunch Meeting Place: Tokyo JR Station Yaesu Chuo exit
Lunch Eating Place: Tai Kou Rou  03-3271-9351  map below

Meeting Time: 13:45 or 14:00 (after we finish eating)
Meeting Place:   HSBC James Capel Securities 5F
                 Kyobashi 1-chome Bldg, Chuo-ku 13-1
                 Tokyo 104

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Most of the benefit of the meeting comes 
from chatting with other Linux users and having informal 
discussions.  Lunch is one of the main reasons for going 
to the meetings for many people.  Everyone is expected 
to pay for their own meal.

    ** Make Friends **


We will be meeting at Tokyo station on April 11th, Saturday
in front of the Tokyo station Yaesu central ticket gate at 12:30.
There is more than one Yaesu ticket gate, so be careful.  If you
know you are going and don't know what we look like, send
me an e-mail (craig@example.com) and I'll make sure we wait 
for you.  After everyone gathers, we'll walk down the stairs 
and have lunch in the restaurant area in the basement of 
Tokyo station.  If you're late or can't find us, 
go directly to Joe Marchak's office.  

  **** Learn Netscape's Open Source **** 

Meeting Topic: Tague Griffith of Netscape i18n will be talking about the
release of the Communicator source code. He is currently employed at
Netscape Communications, where he is the technical lead for the
International Components group. The International Components group
supplies cross-platform internationalization libraries to Netscape's client
and server products. 

Previosuly, Tague worked for Apple Computer on the Text Services
Manager input method architecture. He has also worked for B.U.G. in
Sapporo, Japan. 

Tague graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in
computer science. In his free time, Tague does free lance writing and is
involved in the San Francisco music scene. 

If you will be unable to attend this meeting but have a question for Mr.
Griffith, please use the form found at
http://beehive.twics.com/~tlug/meeting.html. 
Answers to submitted questions will be posted to the TLUG homepage 
after the meeting. 


Facilities and Equipment Overview
*********************************

At least the following hardware will be set up for demonstration.
    Sparc 2     "Sparky" Linux RedHat installed
    PPro 200    (the CDE machine) with Red Hat installed
    Pentium 100 "Deb-chan" with Debian installed (probably)
    Hub&cables  

We may do a few installs.  Feel free to bring your own machine
or software.  People often bring their hard disks for an
install.  The meeting is usually unstructured.  

If you are coming to the meeting, join the mailing
list by sending e-mail to majordomo@example.com and
including

  subscribe tlug
  end

in the body of the message.  You can get a feeling for
what the group is like. 




For any instructions or info:
Joe Marchak
ph:  03-5203-3925
fx:  03-5203-3699
joem@example.com

Craig Oda
craig@example.com (Japanese is okay)

We look forward to seeing you there!


         **** Be There on April 11th! ****


------------- Eating Place Directions ----------

Map to     Tai Kou Rou
Phone:     03-3271-9351

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Next TLUG Meeting: 11 April Sat, Tokyo Station Yaesu gate 12:30
Featuring Tague Griffith of Netscape i18n talking on source code
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