[PLUG-TALK] Dallas NTLUG dirvish talk

[Keith Lofstrom]

Howdy from Dallas TX!  We are down here visiting my wife's sister. 
My brother-in-law and I went to "third Saturday", a mid-sized
computer flea market.  Unfortunately, he is a M$ slave-ware addict,
and afterwards wanted to go to the PC Users Group meeting at the
Microsoft building at 10AM.  Fortunately, I learned of an alternative;
the North Texas Linux User's Group was meeting at the same time at the
Nokia headquarters, two blocks away.  Unfortunately, they did not
have a speaker.  Fortunately, I had my laptop and an updated version
of the dirvish presentation with me (prepared for, but not accepted
at, OSCON).  So, with little warning for them and for me, I presented
my dirvish talk at their meeting.  There were about 50 people in the
audience.  They were gracious and asked some good questions.  

We had a nice "afters" lunch.  One of the fellows at lunch, Patrick,
is heading the work on the Perl 6 compiler;  I had dinner with him
at Calendula when he came to OSCON last July.  I told them about
some of the good stuff the community is doing in Portland;  they
were especially fascinated by the success of Freegeek, and expressed
interest in emulating it.  Freegeeks, take note!

If you ever find yourself near Dallas on a third Saturday afternoon,
stop by NTLUG and meet these good folk.  It is fascinating to talk
Linux wifi drivers with a 60yo rancher.  http://www.ntlug.org .

Keith

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