[NBLUG] General Meeting Announcement (fwd)

[dustin]

Yup, we are still on for tonight for this same topic.  You can bug Brad
either here on the list, or tonight at the meeting, for not updating the web
site ;)

-Dustin

--
Founder & President
The North Bay Linux Users' Group
http://www.nblug.org/
dustin at nblug.org

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:41:39PM -0800, ME wrote:
> So, we are still on?
> 
> If you are like me, and you delete some old mail like this one, then you
> might wonder what the meeting tonight is about - especially since it is
> not on the web site AFAIK.
> 
> (Watch. It will be there on the web site by the time this makes its
> rounds...)
> 
> L8rz,
> -ME
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:59:14 -0800
> From: Dustin Mollo <dustin at nblug.org>
> To: announce at nblug.org
> Subject: [NBLUG] General Meeting Announcement
> 
> WHAT: NBLUG General Meeting
> TOPIC: SpringBox, An OpenSource project from dLoo (www.dloo.com)
> WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol
> WHEN: February 12th, 2002 @ 7:30PM
> 
> ----
> Hello once again, everyone!
> 
> This month we've got some folks from a software company in Petaluma coming
> to talk to us about an OpenSource project they are working on.  Their
> project is called SpringBox.  Here's a few words from them directly about
> their project:
> 
> 	For the past two years our company, dLoo, has been developing a new
> 	way of creating and sharing open source software. The result of our
> 	work is a project called SpringBox.
> 
> 	Before the Web, information was trapped in proprietary databases and
> 	couldn't be linked together. The Web overthrew that model, and
> 	replaced it with a model in which information was public and
> 	linkable. These two traits made the value of the information
> 	available online grow exponentially.
> 
> 	Today, open source software is trapped on individual computers and
> 	can't be linked together. SpringBox makes it possible to build
> 	networks of software out of distributed units of code that live on
> 	the Internet. With SpringBox, open source developers can post code
> 	publicly, like web pages, and other developers can improve and
> 	extend their code by linking to it.
> 
> 	We believe SpringBox has the potential to do for open source
> 	software what the Web did for online information. Our presentation
> 	will discuss SpringBox, this new unit of code (the Word) and the way
> 	that Words can be used to construct an extensible Linux software
> 	environments.
> 
> As always, please be sure to show up a little before the meeting time so the
> meeting can get underway as close to 7:30 as possible.
> 
> Also, don't forget we have an InstallFest coming up on the 16th of February. 
> Please visit http://www.nblug.org/installfest/ to get all the details and to
> sign-up.
> 
> See you all next week!
> 
> -Dustin
> 
> --
> Founder & President
> The North Bay Linux Users' Group
> http://www.nblug.org/
> dustin at nblug.org
> 
>