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Unless otherwise noted, meetings run 3PM to about 5PM (following a 2:45-3PM help session) on the first Thursday of most months (second Thursday in January, July and September)
DURING THE PANDEMIC, WE'LL BE ON-LINE.
When it becomes logistically possible we hope to combine On-line participation, and to again meet in person at the Natick Community-Senior Center, 117 East Central Street (Rte.135), Natick MA
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Future agendas are subject to change because, with FOSS, good news arrives on a daily basis. |
December 7, 2023 (3-5PM*) ONLINE.
*- 2:45PM: One-on-One Help ONLINE.
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FOSS Meeting Agenda TBD
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November 2, 2023 (3-5PM*) ONLINE.
*- 2:45PM: One-on-One Help ONLINE.
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FOSS Meeting Agenda TBD
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October 5, 2023 (3-5PM*) ONLINE.
*- 2:45PM: One-on-One Help ONLINE.
VIEW us (live or
later) on YouTube (thanks to Dennis
Payne).
Or, to actively
PARTICIPATE, use open-source
Firefox or
Chromium (rather than, say,
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- Join our
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- Opens at 2:45PM for FOSS Help.
- Mute your
microphone except as needed.
- You can download
and print this 5-page
Jitsi Meet Help Sheet
with Keyboard Shortcuts.
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FOSS Meeting Agenda TBD
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September 14, 2023 (3-5PM*) VIEW us (live or
later) ONLINE at Youtube. Thanks to Dennis Payne.
(in spite of some network technical difficulties during the live meeting, you should be able to review this meeting's recording.)
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- The FOSS News:
- FOSS History:
- Hot Software:
- Rhino Linux has released version 2023.2. Also watching BlendOS (by young author of Ubuntu-Unity) and 'Mantic Minotaur' Desktop (Ubuntu-Unity at Ubuntu) - and, for smartphones, Phosh. All these can be tested easily in RAM by booting from a Ventoy thumb drive. (Dick Miller)
- Widen too-thin scrollbars in gtk-based applications – a demo based on this and this solutions. (Bob Primak)
- Hot Hardware:
- Hot Internet:
- Computer Security, Privacy and Freedom:
- Large Language Models, etc.
- FOSS Fun:
- How to ID Junk mail: Samples from Dick’s Junk Mailbox (Jill Miller)
- QUESTIONS & ANSWERS:
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August 3, 2023 (3-5PM*) ONLINE.
*- 2:45PM: One-on-One Help ONLINE.
VIEW us (live or
later) on YouTube (thanks to Dennis
Payne). |
- The FOSS News:
- FOSS History:
- Hot Software:
- Hot Hardware:
- Hot Internet:
- Computer Security, Privacy and Freedom:
- FOSS Fun: Game of the Month: (Dennis Payne).
- How to ID Junk mail:
- Spam “from FedEx” (Jill Miller)
- Check SPAM folders to ensure you are getting NatickFOSS emails.
- QUESTIONS & ANSWERS & EXTRAS:
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The Next Monthly BLU Meeting is Wednesday, August 16, 2023 at 06:30 pm Online at Jitsi
The meeting will demo and discuss AlmaLinux OS, the community-supported alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (Jerry Feldman)
- Software Freedom Day is the third Saturday in September (the 16th), and it will be 20 years old this year. At how many Town Public Libraries might we staff a NatickFOSS demo table with at least two volunteers? Ask that, and solicit other ideas, on this August agenda?
- Corey Doctorow's blog Pluralistic contains the following "EULA":
READ CAREFULLY
By reading this website, you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use policies ("BOGUS AGREEMENTS") that I have entered into with your employer, its partners, licensors, agents and assigns, in perpetuity, without prejudice to my ongoing rights and privileges. You further represent that you have the authority to release me from any BOGUS AGREEMENTS on behalf of your employer.
Compare to the version Dick Miller has posted on the MMS Money is not Wealth page:
READ CAREFULLY:
By reading this website, you agree, on behalf of your employer and yourself, to release us from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use policies ("BOGUS AGREEMENTS") that we have entered into with you, your employer, its partners, licensors, agents and assigns, in perpetuity, without prejudice to our ongoing rights and privileges. You further represent that you have the authority to release us from any BOGUS AGREEMENTS on behalf of your employer.
(Dick Miller)
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July 13, 2023 (3-5PM*) ONLINE.
VIEW us (live or
later) on YouTube (thanks to Dennis
Payne).
The links shown in the topics to the right are discussed in the meeting's video and are valid links at the time of the meeting. Over time, websites may change or even disappear, and the older the links are, there is a chance they'll no longer work.
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- The FOSS News:
- FOSS History:
- Hot Software:
- Hot Hardware:
- Hot Internet:
- Computer Security, Privacy and Freedom:
- FOSS Fun:
- Game of the Month: (Dennis Payne).
- How to ID Junk mail: Samples from Dick’s Junk Mailbox (Jill Miller)
- QUESTIONS & ANSWERS:
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Original Archive
(March 2011 to June 2023)
Web page standards have changed through the years. The information in the earlier archive is still good, but the file has grown in ways that made it too difficult to bring it all up to more recent standards.
Please follow the link to get to the past meeting notes. Thanks for your understanding.
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