[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 are available on the NC*SA website 
(http://www.ncsysadmin.org/) and the TriLUG website 
(http://www.trilug.org/).
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