CALug Speaker For November 12 -- Amy Begg De Groff

[Craig Younkins]

+1 for recording the presentation for youtube. I would do it (and be there)
if I didn't have class :-(

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On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Robert Eisenzopf <deitai at closecall.com>wrote:

> Chuck:
> Is someone going to video the presentation?  For one, Amy's
> presentation
> could be used encourage other libraries to do what HoCo has
> done. I am
> headed for big MO (which does not have an Ubuntu team) and
> will not be
> in attendance (though I wish I could). I would like to take
> about 10 CD distros
> with me to hand out to libraries there when I speak to the
> head librarian/IT.
> That video presentation should be available on the HoCoLib
> site for nationwide
> viewing. How about that for the MD Ubuntu team cap feather?
> See you at Ibex.
> BobE
>
> "Chuck Frain" <chuckfrain at pobox.com>
> > Greetings Everyone,
> >
> > I have secured a speaker for the Wednesday, November 12th
> > Columbia Area LUG
> > meeting.
> >
> > Our guest will be Amy Begg De Groff, Director of
> > Information Technology at
> > the Howard County Library.
> >
> > For those that are unaware the Howard County Library
> > system consistently
> > ranks highly on national lists of public libraries. While
> > maintaining these
> > high standards they are strong proponents of Open Source.
> > These high marks
> > are achieved using Ubuntu on all of the nearly 300 [if
> > memory serves on that
> > number correctly] customer facing PCs. A majority of the
> > staff machines are
> > running Ubuntu and the backend inventory systems are
> > about to be switched
> > over to use Open Source solutions.
> >
> > Go take a peek at the HC Library's blog at
> > http://hclibrary.org/opensource/to see what she's been
> > talking about
> > recently. Visit the library if you
> > haven't for a while and notice the new images that are on
> > the PCs (Full
> > installs are [being] rolled out, I saw one of them
> > yesterday) with the
> > customers using them for various tasks, use the free wifi
> > and get your
> > questions together for her.
> >
> > As normal the meeting will run from 7-9pm at Tenable
> > Network Security's
> > Columbia, MD office located at 7063 Columbia Gateway
> > Drive. Enter via the
> > back door with the blue tables.
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