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 > > > ------------------------------------ > This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with the word unsubscribe in the subject header. > ------------------------------------ This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject header.