🚀 go-pugleaf

[This is a repeat announcement, but this time we have a definite place 
 to meet at. TDK]

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	*** TDK Consulting Services is pleased to announce: ***
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   	    The first meeting of the KW Unix User's Group! 
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It will be held at 19:30 on Wed, July 15 at Davis Center 1350.

As the agenda presently stands:
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1) Sign-in of attendees: Your name, company, phone number, email address, 
and areas of Unix interest will be requested. This information will be 
used to:
	1) help provide a better idea of the audience interests 
	2) maintain contact with members between meetings, and 
	3) get a idea of who is using Unix in the KW area.

2) Introductions (you know -- name, rank, and serial number)

3) Open-floor discussion: The floor will be opened to questions and 
discussion about things Unix and Unix-related. 

4) Presentation: Tim Tyhurst (tim@dogmead.uucp) will be making the 
first of a two-part introductory overview of the X windowing system. 

	Part 1: Introduction to the X Window System
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	- a brief history
	- architecture and basic terminology of the X Window System
	- using X -- what is 
	  a window manager?  
	  an X resource?  
	  an X terminal?
	- hints for obtaining and installing X

	Part 2: Programming X Window Applications
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	- description of the programming interface:  how Xlib, the X 
	  Intrinsics, and Motif work together
	- strengths and weaknesses in the programming model
	- a "hello world" Motif program.

No prior experience using X or working with X/Motif is assumed in part 1. 
Familiarity with the C programming language is assumed for part 2. 

5) Question Period: Tim will answer questions from the audience on his 
presentation.

6) Social Time: At the conclusion of the "formal" part of the meeting, 
nominations will accepted for a restaurant to adjuourn to. Once one has 
been duly elected, the meeting will be adjourned and people may move to 
the selected establishment for food, socializing, and whatever else.

I look forward to seeing you there!
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| Tim Kuehn | TDK Consulting |(519)-888-0766| 				|
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| About the speaker: | Tim Tyhurst is currently completing a Masters degree 
 --------------------  in Computer Science at UW doing research in user 
interfaces and visualization for symbolic computation systems. His past 
experience include 7 years work locally designing and programming a variety 
of software systems for the Unix and MS-DOS environments, 2.5 years 
experience using X; and 1 year of experience programming X.