Who!

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What!

SLACK

by Lee Lammert , Omnitek

Slack is a cloud-based set of proprietary team collaboration tools and services, founded by Stewart Butterfield. Slack began as an internal tool used by his company, Tiny Speck, in the development of Glitch, a now defunct online game. The name is an acronym for "Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge"

We are expecting Lee to provide useful demonstrations and examples.

Normally Abstract/Background/Details/History/Outline/Summary/Walk-through will be listed when available.

MAIN: Help Getting Help (Part One)

by Stan Reichardt

This will be a survey of finding help, within Linux Operating System Distributions and outside.

Intended for newcomers, the true beginners.

Some useful examples, certainly not everything.

We will first explore help available within the command line terminal, which will then lead us into the richly abundant graphical help resources of the LinuxMint MATE Desktop Environment.

Monthly Meetings

We start the general meeting at 6:30 PM with our BASE session (usually focused on personal computing); which may include either amazing graphical packages, blinking lights, command line wonders, demonstrations of useful applications, displays of newly discovered web sites, major resolution of long standing anomalies, quantum discoveries, superb tutorials, or shifts in both time and space.

Sometime after 7:00 PM we get to a quick welcome, introductions, announcements, current events of interest, and a general CALL FOR HELP (Questions and Answers) segment.

Sometime after 7:30 PM, we may take a short break before our MAIN topic (usually focused on enterprise computing),

All of our meetings are free and open to the public. There is no individual membership fee.

Where!

Graybar Electric, Inc.
11885 Lackland Road, Maryland Heights, MO 63146
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When!

Wednesday January 9th, 2019

from 6:30PM till 9:00PM Central Time

Next scheduled meeting dates

• 2019
  • 2019-02-13 TOPICS To Be Determined Offer to talk!
  • 2019-03-13 TOPICS To Be Determined Offer to talk!
  • 2019-04-10 TOPICS To Be Determined Offer to talk!

We have been meeting continuously since at least July 1992.