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 Hello All,

Here is the current status of the Linux Donators and meeting.

 o Please if any of the readers of this posting can join the effort
   please do, any amount is important.
 o All the current donators please try to add some more :-)
 o In case we have to pay the VAT, I'll have to ask it from each of us :-(
 o I saw names on the mailing list that don't donate, if someone is doing it
   from some good reason, please let me know. I curious to know whether
   someone on the list think it is not a good Idea to show Linux at 
COMPUTAX ?!
   Please don't flame me :-), Just curiousity.
 O any comment about this posting should go to the Linux-il or to
   me (strauss@actcom.co.il)

 The donators are:
 
                                                     Donation             
 Name                                                limit   meeting  
COMPUTAX 

Amos Shapira <amoss@cs.huji.ac.il>                    200                
Yuval E. Sapir <yes@math.tau.ac.il>                   200               v
guy keren <choo@actcom.co.il>                         200                
Oren Yehezkely <oren@most.gov.il>                     120                
Sergei Lvov <sergei@radview.rad.co.il>                100       v       v
Marc A. Volovic <marc@leonardo.ls.huji.ac.il>         100                
Yehiyam Livneh <s3173338@techst02.technion.ac.il>     100                
Ilan Aisic <aisic@ksl.co.il>                          100                
Mark Zusman <marklz@ksl.co.il>                        100                
Ariel Nowersztern <reln@cs.huji.ac.il>                100       v        
Evgeny Stambulchik <fnevgeny@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il> 100    v       v
Studnitzky Boaz <s3176015@techst02.technion.ac.il>    100       v       v
Gilad Gam <ila2033@zeus.datasrv.co.il>                100                
Yair George Rajwan <yair@hobbes.jct.ac.il>            100                
Shay Rojansky <roji@cs.huji.ac.il>                    100       v       v
Yuri Shirman <yuri@orbotech.co.il>                    100                
Nir Yeffet <nir@israntique.org.il>                    100                
Ofer Maor <oferm@NetVision.net.il>                              v       v
Victor Klimov <vk@actcom.co.il>                       100
Shlomo Hasson <mshasson@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il>        100
Bercovici Sam <mantor@post.tau.ac.il>                 100  
Erez Strauss <strauss@actcom.co.il>                   140       v       v

                                                     2460

We have a donator that will put the rest of the money, to complete the 
3300 or 3861.

Tomorrow morning (probably before you read it) I go to COMPUTAX to make
a commitment for all of us, registering us at COMPUTAX.

Please confirm your part in the donation, and bring it on friday to the 
meeting.

Meeting:
  Friday June 2nd, 1995 (this year), 9:30am.
  for meeting subjects, see below, or read the mailing list :-).

 Please bring your CDs sets as we might need to move them to those that 
don't have
latest version of linux and would like to upgrade.

COMPUTAX the show:
  Tue, June 6, 12:00 - 21:00
  Wed, June 7, 12:00 - 22:00
  Thu, June 8, 10:00 - 19:00

Linux at COMPUTAX in Building 30.

Hardware:

Sergei Lvov <sergei@radview.rad.co.il>
  I can donate my 486DX2-66 8Mb RAM 420HDD, the only problem is since 
last 
  HDD crash, it hasn't linux in it, but since I'm almost not using it, I 
  can give it for a long period of time (1 week)

Paul Schuster <pauls@iil.intel.com>
  I am trying to talk marketing here into lending a PCI Pentium-120 or 
  Pentium Overdrive based machine. I will let you know if I have any 
  luck.  Well Paul what is their answers ?

Ilan Aisic <aisic@ksl.co.il>
  Pentium 90 on Intel Motherboard
  32MB RAM
  PCI Adaptec 294x SCSI controler
  2GB Disk (1 for Linux, 1 for Dos/Windows)
  Sound Blaster 16 + CDROM
  17" Monitor
  Mach 32 Graphics Card
  3COM 3c509 16bit Ethernet Card
  14,400 Modem/Fax
  The distribution installed is Slackware, on top of which I've installed
  Linux 1.2.8, XFree86 3.1 and Metrolink Motif 2.0, Doom and more.


Software Packages for demonstration
 
   Motif                                                  
   Hebrew (Xterm, VI, ...).
   XEmacs
   GCC,
   Netscape
   Mosaic
   Tcl/Tk demos                                           I can do that.
   PovRay (?? does any one use it).
   MuPaD ( package similar to Mathematica or Maple)
   Mesa - the PD OpenGL clone
   Maple demo
   Xfig     A pretty good drawing package
   SciLab   A MatLab friend (w/graphics etc...)
   Crisp    Demo version - A real good editor (for a cost)
   Xess     Demo version - A commercial spreadsheet
   WorkMan  (and accessories) - CD stuff
   Doom
   Executor (the Mac emulator)
   DOSEMU with applications,                               Shay took this 
subject.
   xplot                                                   Alexander 
Belikoff.
   Xdim                                                    Evgeny Stambulchik
   mpeg_play (need Motif)

  
Meeting Subjects

 Shay Rojansky Taking care for this ??

  Here are the lectures we have secured up to now (to my knowledge):
  
  1. DosEmu (required Linux 1.2.x + X)
  2. Tcl etc.
  3. Ariel and I will give a lecture on connecting highschools
     to Internet (Linux usability + ideas, etc...).
  4. Marc may kamikaze himself by lecturing about FreeBSD (if he
     doesn't get slaughtered first, that is).

 Limor Schweitzer <limor@elron.net>

  * Hebrew applications for Linux
          Status of (x)emacs hebrew port ?
          translation of MIMEd eudora/Pegasus hebrew mails into RFC1555
          standard so they can be read by pine.
  
  * Suggestions on how we can effectively finance our periodic Linux 
upgrades.
          CD subscriptions + IDE H/D which could be passed hand to hand ?
  
  * Hacking & Cracking with the aid of Linux
          Could this be a serious full disclosure security discussions forum?
  
  * Contributing to the internet
          How about us contributing an hour or two a week for building 
some 
          sofware/documentation/FAQ
  
  * Articles
          Translating or writing articles about linux can easily make it 
          into local papers, now that the internet has become such a "hot"
          issue.
  
  * Lecturing
          Could anyone prepare a lecture on some interesting linux related
          subject or maybe tell about some personal experience in kernel 
hacking
          or some interesting project you've been starting up with linux ?



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