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PLUG: Portland's monthly, three-track tech conference!
First Thursday: General Meeting at PSU
Third Tuesday: Advanced Topics at Free Geek
Third Sunday: Hands-on Clinic at Free Geek
PLUG will celebrate 20 years of delivering conference-quality Linux, Unix and technology speakers this year! Most speakers are announced about two weeks in advance but some are last minute. Watch Calagator and the PLUG mailing lists for the latest news.
Many attendees will break for a social hour after the Third Tuesday meeting at the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne after the meeting
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Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics Meeting Announcement
Who: Leander Harding<br>
What: Living Desktop Environment-Free<br>
Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland (Left Entrance) <br>
When: Tuesday, October 21st, 2014 at 7pm<br>
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom<br>
Stream: http://pdxlinux.org/live/ <br>
KDE, Unity, even XFCE, are massive, complex software environments that
achieve simplicity of user experience through rigid adherence to a given
paradigm - and once you can write a shell script, they do remarkably
little for you. We'll discuss philosophy, tools, and practical advice
for simpler, more reliable, and more powerful computing without a
desktop environment, surveying everything from non-annoying network
profile handling to the wide world of mouse-free window management and
everything in between.
Leander Harding is a developer at Cloud Four and a longtime Linux user.
He's been running desktop environment-free since 2007.
Many will head to the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne after the meeting.
See you there!
Michael Dexter<br>
PLUG Volunteer
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