[volunteers] volunteers Digest, Vol 49, Issue 4

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Margaret Wendall (mwendall at gmail.com):

> We discussed this face to face last week, and here is a formal proposal to
> ask *Akkana Peck* to speak to us about the GIMP. I suspect there are a lot
> of us who use this app and would appreciate a tutorial on how it works. I
> know from experience that it's clumsy, and that it's not as "good" as
> Photoshop for some things, but there are dozens of photorendering apps that
> don't do really do the job, and the GIMP is powerful and literally free
> software.

Yes, indeed.  The TBA page _also_ has a pointer to Luke S. Crawford's 
June 2008 offer to give a talk about Xen virtualisation, which at that
time he was using to operate a small virtual hosting company.

Since we're about nine months further on, at this point, Luke might have
slightly different ideas about his talk's focus, but I'm sure it'd be
good, in any event.  (I briefly discussed the topic with him when I was
EBLUG's speaker, recently.  Luke, I had implemented both Xen and VMware 
at a recent gig at a large EDA firm, where VM technology was used to 
deal with several problems.)

I think it'd be wonderful to line up both Akkana and Luke's talks!  And
yes, I do know that she's a high-powered speaker on that topic.  See:
http://shallowsky.com/

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Cheers,
Rick Moen                      Linux for Intel:  Party like it's 2037!
rick at linuxmafia.com