September Meeting of the Chicago LUG

September Meeting of the Chicago LUG

[meg ford]

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Hi!

We will be meeting on Wednesday, September 30th at 6:30 pm at Red Hat's
Chicago Office, 101 N. Wacker Drive. Red Hat will be sponsoring pizza and
drinks for the meeting. Please note that space is limited to 25 attendees!

Christopher Webber will be giving two talks:

Federating the Web: The web is theoretically free software, is powered by
free and open technologies, and yet seems to become less free and more
centralized by the day. How to take back the web? Christopher Allan Webber
of GNU MediaGoblin talks about the state of federation, what's happening at
the W3C Social Working Group on standardizing federation standards, the
ActivityPump spec, and how you can get involved in taking back the net!

Functional Package Management and Deployment with Guix: Tired of being
stuck after an upgrade? Wish your operating system could roll forward and
backwards in time, more like Git? Want a way to get *really* reproducible
software? Or just want a better alternative to $YOUR_LANGUAGE's stressful
packaging ecosystem you can run on an existing distro? And why on earth
would you want something called a "symlink forest" anyway? Discover all
this and more in this exciting talk about the GNU Guix project!

Meeting announcement on the Website:

https://chicagolug.org/meetings/2015-09-30.html

RSVP on meetup:

http://www.meetup.com/wclug-org/events/225423618/

See you there,

Meg

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