[juneau-lug] Re: January Meeting

Is Draw a fully functional CAD program?

Toby
On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 09:28 PM, chakari@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
>  (Big change from when there
>> were only three people.)  If you look at the bottom of the main
>> page,
>> you'll see some "club business" items down there.  They've remained
>> the
>> same since last summer.  We're getting large enough that perhaps a
>> little organization would not hurt.  Ideas?
>
> I have been thinking about how to get even more people interested in 
> the
> LUG and have come up with an idea. I think that an open house style 
> open
> source showcase might bring a few people in. Most non-Linux users that 
> I
> know are entrenched in Windoze, so they are unlikely to drop everything
> and switch. But if they can be shown that there are plenty of open
> source apps available and can be conviced to install them, they may 
> warm
> up to the idea of an open source OS.
>
> I am slowly bringing in  Mozilla, the Gimp and Open Office to 7 mile
> DOT. Granted, the main reason I am installing Open Office is that Draw
> does a fine job of cleaning up windows metafiles generated from 
> Autocad,
> but at least the IT folks o.k.ed it. It would be real expensive to 
> equip
> everyone with Corel Draw or Designer to do this one task, or Photoshop
> to touch-up our digital photos, so using Open Source software is a big
> money saver for these non-mission critical tasks. Who knows, someone 
> may
> start using the Open Office apps.....they are more up to date that the
> Office 97 apps we are using!
>
> Just a thought. Any comments?
>
> Chuck
>
>
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