[chiglug] September Meeting Announcement

[Jim Campbell]

Thanks, Meg!!

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015, at 11:09 AM, meg ford wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We will be meeting on Wednesday, September 30th at 6:30 pm at Red
> Hat's Chicago Office, 101 N. Wacker Drive. Red Hat will be sponsoring
> pizza and drinks for the meeting. Please note that space is limited to
> 25 attendees!
>
> Christopher Webber will be giving two talks: Federating the Web: The
> web is theoretically free software, is powered by free and open
> technologies, and yet seems to become less free and more centralized
> by the day. How to take back the web? Christopher Allan Webber of GNU
> MediaGoblin talks about the state of federation, what's happening at
> the W3C Social Working Group on standardizing federation standards,
> the ActivityPump spec, and how you can get involved in taking back
> the net!


>


> Functional Package Management and Deployment with Guix: Tired of being
> stuck after an upgrade? Wish your operating system could roll forward
> and backwards in time, more like Git? Want a way to get *really*
> reproducible software? Or just want a better alternative to
> $YOUR_LANGUAGE's stressful packaging ecosystem you can run on an
> existing distro? And why on earth would you want something called a
> "symlink forest" anyway? Discover all this and more in this exciting
> talk about the GNU Guix project!


> Meeting announcement on the Website:


> https://chicagolug.org/meetings/2015-09-30.html


> RSVP on meetup:


> http://www.meetup.com/wclug-org/events/225423618/


> See you there,


> Meg


Note that the website currently shows the meeting as starting at
6:00pm, but 6:30pm is the correct time (as noted in Meg's message). I
will be making the correction to show the 6:30pm time on the website
later today.

Jim
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