Friday, October 30, 2015

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

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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