[MLUG - ANNOUNCEMENT] Upcoming Meetings: April 5 & April 13

[Jay Buffington <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

We have a couple of meetings in the pipe right now.  See below for more
information.  If you would be interested in giving a presentation over
any topic please let Micheal Procter <EMAIL:PROTECTED>, our
meeting coordinator, know.  I've begun rotating meeting dates a little
more so more people can make it to the meetings.  Hope to see you
Wednesday!


Next MLUG Meeting 
Time:	6:00PM (General Meeting & Newbie Hangout)
	7:00PM (Presentation)
Date:	Wednesday, April 5th
Place:	Room N15 Memorial Union  North (map on web site)

Presentation:
Michael Roberts will be discussing renovation of the campus network
(tigernet). Tigernet is a one year project to totally renovate the
campus datanetworking backbone. The project will involve totally
removing the existing IBM ATM structure and about 95% of the legacy
routed backbone. The new backbone will be layer 3 switched ethernet
running at 1000Mb at the backbone and 10/100 switched to the desktop.
The hardware is provided by Nortel Networks. 


Upcoming Meeting
Time:	6:00PM (General Meeting & Newbie Hangout)
	7:00PM (Presentation)
Date:	Thursday, April 13th
Place:	TBA

Presentation:
Introduction to TeX, presented by Rob Judd.  TeX is a complete desktop
publishing system for creating professional quality typeset pages of any
kind.  It is especially good at typesetting mathematics.  TeX is free
and has been ported to almost every platform.  Moreover, documents
written with TeX are entirely portable; the same input file will produce
the same output file on any TeX implementation.
We will briefly cover installing and setting up TeX under any Unix
system.  The rest of the talk will be devoted to using TeX, from writing
your first document to understanding some of its more powerful features. 

Along the way I hope to explain some of the details behind how the
program works, and give some information on maintaining a TeX
distribution.  Most of the examples will use LaTeX, a package of macros
that runs on top of TeX.


Thanks,

Jay