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The Computer Science Club at the University of Waterloo is hosting two very big names in the computer science world next month:

- On Friday July 6 at 4:30pm, Richard M. Stallman (founder of the Free Software Foundation) will be speaking about "Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks"

- On Tuesday July 17 at 7:00pm, Bjarne Stroustrup (creator of C++) will be speaking about "C++0x -- An Overview"

Both talks are being held in Room 116 of the Arts Lecture Hall at the University of Waterloo. Admission is free as in beer, I believe.

If all goes well (?) people on the mailing list will see this post even if they never have visited the website in their lives. This increases the potential for spam, but it adds a level of communication that has been missing since the days of kwlug-forums.

Are my tag sets going to bother being consistent now?

I bet they won't!

Why doesn't hitting the cron page send me an update?

I am breaking the site again. When you come to the site and cannot read this, you will know who to blame.

First of all, why can't I post responses to forum entries? This is so broken.

To answer your question: cruft.kwlug.org

We should probably make that site read-only, though...

I am glad you had a good first meeting. We did get a good turnout for that talk -- we usually get 20-30 people.

The organization that was mentioned is CLUE: the Canadian Association for Open Source. Visit http://www.cluecan.ca for more information.

PeaceWorks is an computer consulting company that caters to nonprofits and charities. They have been doing good work in KW andsurrounding areas for something like 11 years, and they are looking for qualified people who have good technical skills and share their values. There are two job openings: one for a Linux/Windows Client Network Administrator, and one for a Software Consultant. Full job descriptions are posted at http://www.peaceworks.ca/index.php?content=Employment Both jobs are mixed proprietary/FLOSS environments, so this could bea transition job for people who know a lot about Windows and something about Linux, and want to move in a more open-source direction.

The discerning reader will see that there is both a site map and a sitemenu link at the top. Their functionalities overlap. But neither one of them seems ideal: * Sitemenu expands categories and shows some of the sub articles, but doesn't give RSS feeds and doesn't list blogs, books, etc. * Site map has RSS feeds, but doesn't expand categories. * Neither one of them include static pages in the map, which is unfortunate because I would like to link to things like the pages in the "Resources" section. One of these maps should go, and maybe we should keep a different one. Which should go?

MarkSmarty ======= This is my attempt to make *yet another input format* + Why do this? + I have no idea! * But maybe it's a reasonable idea? + We shouldn't do things without a good reason. I wonder how you end bullet lists? System.out.println("This is code."); System.out.println("Isn't it pretty?"); I guess that Markdown is the "cool thing" to use these days. If you are curious about the syntax, check out http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax Here is the [Markdown page](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown). I am also experimentizing with different site maps.