Tuesday, 15 May 2007
Talk to BLU at MIT and PLUG-West at Unisys and Mike @ Man-LUG
« Hibernate bug in subqueries | Main | Meldware on the Radio »I'll be giving a Buni Meldware talk at MIT (Building E-51) to the Boston Linux and Unix User Group AKA "BLU" tomorrow May 16th. Following this I'll be giving another Meldware talk at Unisys's Malvern office to the Philadelphia Linux Users Group - West on May 17th. This is all part of our LUG Tour. I'll give a full demo of ThunderBird + Lightning and Freebusy using WCAP. I'm also working hard to make Freebusy work in our WebCal. This pretty much gives you your free full-on Exchange replacement using a complete open source stack.
Andy's assistant, Francesca, at LinuxFest Northwest
Following my talks there will be a one day gap and then Mike Barker will be giving another talk to the MAN-LUG on May 19th. I thought the name pointed to a different kind of group, but as it turns out the talk is merely in a little English town called Manchester where they have a team called Manchester United which plays cricket or one of those so-called sports I'm too American to get.
This follows our recent talks at SVLUG, TriLUG and LinuxFest Northwest. The assistant I hired that day received the most "more" comments:
There were a few more pics with her and Tux the penguin, but her photographer didn't get back to me in time, maybe I'll put them up later. You can find out more about her here or on her site, but she's in Spain right now so don't bother her. I also promised her that I would ask everyone to vote for her as a Maxim Hometown Hottie when voting opens in June. Francesca was a good sport about quite a few things including our door prizes, I'm sure all those guys will look just as fabulous as Satish in them. We did generate a little bit of controversy with a few people who are interested in political correctness more than fun. For the record I'm not opposed to hiring male assistants if there is enough demand for them. And there was the 9 year old who was selling cookies... But hey...open source should be fun and educational.
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Durham (BTW named after a RR station that was named after a dude, not another place) being lumped in with Raleigh is insult enough, but Cary? Cary is the village of the damned. I feel about it the way John Betjeman felt about Slough (http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/intuition/Slough.html). See how horribly uniform it is (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=King+James+CT,+cary,+NC&sll=35.79954,-78.77405&sspn=0.005273,0.008336&ie=UTF8&ll=35.797061,-78.776543&spn=0.005273,0.008336&t=k&z=17&om=1). The people are that way too. All in their black SUVs and beige dockers + golf shirts...
Why you'd kick the ball when you have two perfectly good hands is beyond me. I'll stick with boxing...straightforward. BEAT ON HIM...BEAT HIM!
-Andy
Manchester some "little English town". Bigger than that tiny village that you live in.
Population Raleigh-Durham-Cary: 1,509,560
Population Greater Manchester: 2,585,800
About the sport. I understand that concept of "football" in the UK, where the game involves kicking a ball with your foot can be a bit much for some. As for cricket I'll give you that. Any game that lasts for 5 days and still ends in a draw takes some understanding.