[TriLUG] [TriLUG-Announce] Mon, 2-11-2002 - Slashdot's Robin "roblimo" Miller to appear at NCSSM

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

TriLUG is pleased is pleased to announce that our February meeting, 
co-sponsored with NC*SA, will feature a lecture by Robin Miller. 

NOTE: this is in lieu of our regular February meeting.  We will have 
NO meeting on February 14. 

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Please note the CHANGE OF VENUE for this meeting.  The lecture will be 
held at the North Carolina School of Science and Math in Durham,
courtesy of NCSSM.  This is not our regular day or location, and was
chosen to accommodate the expected number of attendees. 

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Speaker:        Robin Miller 
Topic:          "Linux for the Masses: It's Finally Here" 
Date:           Monday, February 11, 2002 
Time:           7:00PM (hall opens at 6:30PM) 
Location:       General Assembly Hall 
                John Friedrick Educational Technology Center 
                North Carolina School of Science and Math (NCSSM) 

Robin 'Roblimo' Miller is editor in chief for OSDN, one of the world's 
leading online tech news publishers. He has written extensively about 
computers and the Internet for Slashdot, Linux.com, NewsForge, Time New 
Media, Online Journalism Review, Web Hosting Magazine, The Washington 
Post, The Baltimore Sun,and many other Web sites, newspapers, and 
magazines. He is one of the creators of modern interactive journalism, 
invented a self-serve online ad sales system that eliminates virtually 
all sales costs, and has served as an Internet business consultant to 
several Fortune 500 companies and many Internet entrepreneurs. 

Mr. Miller is best known for his work on Slashdot, but he is 
also the creator of NewsForge.com, "The online newspaper of record for 
Linux and Open Source". He wrote the first "mainstream journalist
installs 
Linux -- and lives!" article ever (for Time.com's Netly News) back in 
1997. Since then he has become a full-time Linux user and ardent Linux 
usability advocate. 

Miller's latest project is the book "Build Profits Online" for 
Financial Times Press, tentatively scheduled for release in May, 2002. 

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Directions to the John Friedrick Educational Technology Center at NCSSM:

>From RTP / Wake County / Points East 

1) Take I-40 West to NC 147 North - Durham Freeway. 
2) Take Exit 14, Swift Avenue, and turn right (north) at top of ramp. 
        (this is the Duke East Campus exit) 
3) Turn left at the first traffic light onto Main Street. 
4) Turn right at the next traffic light onto Ninth Street. 
5) Follow Ninth Street until it tees into Club Blvd. 
        (NCSSM will be directly in front of you) 
6) Go straight through the light for Club Blvd into the NCSSM driveway. 
7) Park in main parking lot on your right. 

>From Chapel Hill / Points South; and points West 

1) Take 15-501 Bypass North, or I-85 East, to NC 147 South - Durham
Frwy. 
2) Take Exit 14, Swift Avenue, turn left (north) at top of ramp. 
        (this is the Duke East Campus exit) 
3) Turn left at the first traffic light onto Main Street. 
4) Turn right at the next traffic light onto Ninth Street. 
5) Follow Ninth Street until it tees into Club Blvd. 
        (NCSSM will be directly in front of you) 
6) Go straight through the light for Club Blvd into the NCSSM driveway. 
7) Park in main parking lot on your right. 

>From northern Durham / Points North 

1) Take I-85 to Exit 175 - Guess Rd. 
2) Take Guess Road south into Durham. 
        (From 85 North, turn right onto Guess) 
        (From 85 South, turn left onto Guess) 
3) Turn right at the first light (after the I-85 ramps) onto Broad St. 
        (Follow the sign for NCSSM) 
4) Pass NCSSM on your right; turn right at the first light onto Club
Blvd. 
6) Turn right at the next light (Ninth Street) into NCSSM. 
7) Park in main parking lot on your right. 

Once on campus: 

1) Park in main parking lot on right of entrance 
2) Walk uphill (away from Ninth Street) towards the Bryan Center 
3) Friedrick Center is on the left end of the Bryan Center building 
4) Enter at the circular patio with the paired round concrete columns 
5) The auditorium (General Assembly Hall) is just inside the entrance 
6) Restrooms and stairs to balcony are down the hall on the right 

Further locator and campus maps are at: 
http://www.ncssm.edu/General/map/index.htm
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Information is also available on the NC*SA website 
(http://www.ncsysadmin.org/) and the TriLUG website 
(http://www.trilug.org/).
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