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Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
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Emory University School of Law
1301 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30322
Founded in December 1994, we have hosted a plethora of monthly meetings with talk topics ranging from "How to Configure PPP" to "How to Write Device Drivers". We usually have around 40 - 100 people at each meeting.
The ALE group is loosely organized, with a few people acting as contact points and no charter to bog things down. Anyone is welcome to come to the meetings; there is no membership, fees or any other formalities. To become a member, just show up. Our primary interest is in getting information about Linux to members of the Atlanta community.
ALE has three monthly meetings to accomodate the growing Linux Enthusiast population of the Atlanta metropolitan area. The Central meeting is held at Emory University on the second Thursday of the month. The ALE NorthEast meeting is held at Edeltacom Data Center on the first Thursday of the month. The ALE NorthWest meets the third Thursday at the Weather Channel. Directions are on the left sidebar.
To accommodate room scheduling at our provided venue we
have moved our ALE Central meetings to the THIRD Thursday
of each month starting in 2008.
Our January 17th, 7:30pm meeting presentation will be
“Meshing Around with the OLPC XO Micro”
with presenters
Charles Shapiro & Mike Harrison.
Synopsis:
”Meshing Around” will be a casual exploration of the anxiously
awaited XO micro laptop created by the One Laptop Per Child
project. At least 2 (and perhaps as many as 5) of the recently
released devices will be on hand for a variety of feature demos,
design discussions and hacking hints focusing around this
most unique and high minded Linux project.
Bios:
Charles Shapiro is a fan of fencing, juggling, gadgetry, RC toys
and most anything the lesser world considers “geek” or “gear head”.
Consistent to this calling he has been a professional programmer for
over 10 years, specializing in C and unix with a couple years of C++,
Perl and a plethora of Python in the mix. He can type faster than
most people can talk, is a Linux Lunacy Cruise alumnae, a liberty
minded friend of the EFF and a committed Linux zealot since 1996.
Mike Harrison originally trained as a USAF BioMedical Electronics
Technician and spent several civilian years as a Consulting Clinical
Engineer. Later he left the hospital/corporate world and founded
Higher Technology Services (HTS) in 1989, Chattanooga Online in
1993 and GeekLabs in 1998. Mike sold his interest in HTS and COL
in 2003 and made GeekLabs his business focus. Mike’s interest in
the OLPC is focused toward 2 separate coding projects — an online
educational system and a utility payment/control system that may
both be available to OLPC users in the near future.
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We will be meeting in our usual Gambrel Hall room 1C venue.
Meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found
HERE (or via the side bar link).
Having received no objections to the idea of moving
the monthly ALE Central meetings to the Third Thursday
of each month, the new schedule is being implemented
beginning this month.
The first ALE Central meeting of 2008 will be held
THURSDAY, JANUARY 17th, 7:30 pm at our usual
Emory Law School, Gambrel Hall, rm 1C venue.
The main presentation will be a close up look at
the One Laptop Per Child portable solid state Linux
computer. Charles Shapiro and Mike Harrison were
among the bleeding edge adopters and will be sharing
their hacking attempts and explorations of the device
to date.
Complete synopsis and bio details to follow soon.