[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: September PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                             MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                        The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                  will meet
                          7 PM Thursday Sep 7, 2006
                                      at
                          Portland State University
                                      in
                            Smith Memorial Center
                                   Room 294
                           On the block bounded by
       SW Montgomery, SW Broadway (7th), SW Harrison, and SW Park (9th)

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                                 PRESENTATION

                                   Inkscape

                                      by

                               Bryce Harrington
                               <bryce at osdl.org>
 
      Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities 
      similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the  
      W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics  (SVG) file format. 
      Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, 
      clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and  
      grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, 
      node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, 
      text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports 
      formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as 
      well as multiple vector-based formats.

      Inkscape's main goal is to create a powerful and convenient drawing 
      tool fully compliant with XML, SVG, and CSS standards. We also aim 
      to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, 
      community-oriented development process, and by making sure Inkcape 
      is easy to learn, to use, and to extend.
     
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          Agenda:
          
              7:00 - 7:30  Business
                   We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects 
                   including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings, 
                   PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                   etc.

              7:30 - 8:30  Presentation
          
                   See above
          
              9:00 - ...  Beer
                                  The Lucky Labrador Brewing Company
                                  915 SE Hawthorne
          
          
          
                                          David Mandel
                                          Chief Activist
                                          Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                          560 SE Alexander
                                          Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                          (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                          dmandel at pdxLinux.org
          
          
          P.S.  Biznix which specializes in Linux and UNIX support for 
                the Business Computer User.
                As I understand, they haven't been meeting for a while,
                but intend to have regular meetings again in 2006. 
                See http://www.Biznix.org for details.
                
          P.S.  BLUEgroup (The Beaverton Linux Users Education Group)
                is a group geared toward new users or those interested 
                in learning more about Linux.  BLUE group meets on the 
                4th Thursday of every month (except Thanksgiving and 
                Christmas) at the corner of Beaverton Hillsdale Hwy and 
                Western ave.  See www.BLUEgroup.org for details.

          P.S.  PDXLUG provides a less formal alternative to PLUG 
                emphasizing the needs of new users.   PDXLUG meets 
                every second Thursday of the month in southeast Portland.
                See http://www.PDXLUG.org for details.

          P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
                at 6:30 PM on the first Tuesday of the month.
                They have out grown their meeting location at PEAK
                and are now meeting on the OSU campus.
                See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.
                    
          P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
                See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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