Ubuntu-MD Meeting Follow-up Summary

[Ron Swift]

The recently reactivated Ubuntu-MD Loco team met in my Catonsville
office this past Saturday for several hours. I wanted to share with you
some of the things that we discussed.
I announced that the Community College Baltimore County (CCBC)
Catonsville campus has expressed an interest in hosting our future
meetings in their Linux lab. They run a Redhat Linux academy. They also
want to get students and faculty involved with our Ubuntu group. Our
plan is to have our next meeting on Sat, April 27 at the college.
Also, I have had discussions with two local computer assembler companies
about building new desktops and laptops with Ubuntu. I have stressed
that these systems should include discount pricing since there is no
software licensing costs. They in turn would recommend that their
clients join our group to further enhance their Ubuntu knowledge.
Moreover, we discussed the group's future direction and programs and
generally agreed that the more alliances we can make with new users of
Ubuntu the better. We also need to find ways to get Windows and Mac
users to try Ubuntu. Participation in future bugjams, install feasts and
other Canonical supported programs was briefly discussed.
I gave a condensed presentation on Ubuntu tips and tricks. A copy of my
notes are on our website, Ubuntu-Maryland.org. I also emphasized the
need for us to become comfortable with the command-line terminal
commands and I will cover that in more detail at our next meeting.
Lastly we discussed possible future presentation topics such as gaming
on Ubuntu systems, mobile devices running Ubuntu and Ubuntu server
programs.
Thanks

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Ron Swift
President
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