Greetings Everyone,<br><br>I have secured a speaker for the Wednesday, November 12th Columbia Area LUG meeting. <br><br>Our guest will be <font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Amy Begg De Groff</font>, Director of Information Technology at the Howard County Library.<br>
<br>For those that are unaware the Howard County Library system consistently ranks highly on national lists of public libraries. While maintaining these high standards they are strong proponents of Open Source. These high marks are achieved using Ubuntu on all of the nearly 300 [if memory serves on that number correctly] customer facing PCs. A majority of the staff machines are running Ubuntu and the backend inventory systems are about to be switched over to use Open Source solutions.<br>
<br>Go take a peek at the HC Library's blog at <a href="http://hclibrary.org/opensource/">http://hclibrary.org/opensource/</a> to see what she's been talking about recently. Visit the library if you haven't for a while and notice the new images that are on the PCs (Full installs are [being] rolled out, I saw one of them yesterday) with the customers using them for various tasks, use the free wifi and get your questions together for her. <br>
<br>As normal the meeting will run from 7-9pm at Tenable Network Security's Columbia, MD office located at 7063 Columbia Gateway Drive. Enter via the back door with the blue tables. <br><br>