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Meeting: being hot on the trail
#Disclaimer: it's not a 'Meeting minutes', which remains as Marc's prerogative
-:)
#EndDisclaimer
I'll talk mainly about second part of the meeting - COMPUTAX related. The
lectures were nice, but it was a bit conceitedly IMHO to try to cover both
COMPUTAX and something other within short friday session, especially without
Amos's leadership (no smily). Another bad thing - switching to hebrew in the
middle of discussions.
Listen! We are trying to envolve as much people in linux orbit as possible and,
in the same time, tear away a few which are ALREADY among us! (Was that the
instant when we lost Harvey?) So, let's take it as a rule - the official
language of Linux-il meetings will be english. If someone has extra patriotism,
he may redirect it to writing HEBREW FAQ/HOWTO, translating already existing
docs or hacking apps to be bidirectional. (BTW, this topic from agenda, i.e.,
writing documentation, wasn't even touched.)
Now, about COMPUTAX.
We discussed sheduling of the expo, hardware - that's nice. But the apps! It's
better to show nothing, than show linux badly configured or just that which
looks worse than Win95 or whatever box that will be nearby. You'll say 'Linux is
stable' - but the MS representative will say the same! You say: 'Linux is true
multitasking OS' - MS cries 'Win95 is the best multitasking system in the
world!'. You know it (about linux - not MS :)) from your own experience, but
newcomer can take it only by word. So - a lot of NICE APPS WITH GUI, preferably
not in the alpha or even beta stage - should be our slogan, if we don't want to
gain negative results for money and time spent.
As there wasn't another constructive offer for the time being (correct me if I'm
wrong), I'll be impudent enough to suggest my own configuration as a prototype.
What I have:
*Well configured fvwm desktop (you've been warned - I'm insolent now)
Mail: Ishmail - very nice and powerfull commercial mailer
Zmail - simple mail sender
System: xosview
xsysinfo
Filemanagers: Xfilemanager
XmFm
UnixCockpit
mc
Office: Yrolo - rolodex-like + internal mailer etc
Plan - calendar + alarms + lot of features
Grok - DB/DB builder
Math: Calctool
Octave
pgperl - perl-based sci data processing language with
pgplot interface
Gnuplot
Super Mongo
Xmgr
Xplot
Xdim
Editors: Asedit
Nedit
Xcoral
SM/Edit
aXe
e93 - wanted once to cut&past rectangular areas? it can
Graphics: xv
xli
Xpaint
Pixmap
Animation: mpeg_play
xanim
xviewgl
CAD: xfig
tgif
Network: Xrn
Mftp
NCftp
NNLN xftp
xarchie
xgopher
zircon
x3270 (the latest, includes hebrew support)
WWW stuff: Netscape
Mosaic
Arena
TkHTML
TkWWW
HTTPtool
Webcomber
Emulators: DosEmu
Executor
Wine
Games:(those should be the first, probably - no joke at all)
Xchess
Xdeminer
Xmine
Xjewel
Doom, xdoom
CBzone
Jetpack
Xkobo - very cool graphics, BTW
Acm - flight/fight simulator
Xboing
Xinvaders
Xsokoban
Xblokade
Xmris/Xmsit - diggers
Xpat - card games
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Development: Standard Toolkits + tcl/tk/tclx/motif/... or, yes:
Vxp - motif builder, Xforms.
A lot of fortran PD numerical libraries...
Hope, I haven't missed something important
If you want to add something to this list - please mail ME DIRECTLY - and I'll
post summary.
As a result of above mentioned considerations, I think that boxes to be shown
should be brought to some place with fast(==ethernet) internet connection and
software installed and configured beforehand, not at the Ganei Taaruha. Of
course, I'd like this place to be in Weizmann, but it doesn't really matter.
And the last point - is somebody CONCRETE responsible for the
posters/T-shirts/... preparations? Volunteers?
Evgeny
P.S. This is somehow like 'The April theses' - isn't it? -:)
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