[Discuss] BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Emacs - Weds, Nov 4, 2015

[willrico at gmail.com (Will Rico)]

When: Wednesday, November 4, 6:30 - 8:30PM

Location: Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

Directions
  http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html
  Also easily accessibly by T.

Notes

  1) Please note the location
     is different from BLU's
     standard MIT meeting location.

  2) Akamai has generously
     agreed to provide space and
     'free as in food' for this
     meeting.  Thank you to our
     sponsor!
     http://www.akamai.com/

  3) RSVP is not required, but
      helps me plan food. You can
      RSVP by emailing me or
      RSVP'ing on Meetup.com:
      http://meetu.ps/2MwKjr

Summary

  Whether you live in Emacs or
  think it is an icecream store,
  please join use for this
  introduction of Emacs and
  ensuing discussion.  We are
  pleased to have Aaron Bello of
  Hosttor as our speaker.

About Emacs

  https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

  http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/

About Aaron Bello

  Aaron Bello is an engineer,
  entrepreneur and a computer
  programmer. He is the founder
  and CEO of Hosttor Inc., a
  technology and consulting
  company based in Boston,
  Massachusetts. He has work on
  various projects with
  universities, governments,
  corporations and
  organizations.

  Aaron started his IT journey
  at a local computer workshop
  in 1998. When he was in
  university, he developed an
  interest in programming
  languages after taking BASIC,
  COBOL, Fortran, Pascal, C and
  C++, VB and other classes.

How Aaron Uses Emacs

  Aaron now uses and lives in
  GNU Emacs daily for note
  taking, to-do lists, time
  tracking, chat on IRC,
  twitter, creating documents
  with LaTex and org-mode,
  checking mail, news, RSS
  feeds, writing article and
  posting to PBN, playing chess,
  developing and managing all
  websites projects with HTML,
  CSS, PHP, JS, Python, Django,
  API, SSH, FTP, SCP, Drupal,
  Wordpress, Joomla, Vagrant,
  Web-servers and many more.

More Upcoming Meetings

  Digital Photo Management
  Nov 18 at MIT
  http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-nov

  Bit Coin Introduction
  Dec 2 at Akamai
  http://meetu.ps/2MwJBD
<http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-ifest5>

  Linux InstallFest LVIII
  Dec 5 at MIT
  http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-ifest58
<http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-mar>


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