Meeting November 10 - Robert G Brown -While No One Was Looking, We Re-invented the Telephone!

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Digital audio has changed the way we listen to music, revolutionized the 
music and consumer electronics industries, and has made computers useful 
for the composition and recording of new sounds.
 
While most of us are not composers, we can take advantage of another 
application of digital audio, something that also exploits another aspect 
of computers. Digital audio (like digital files or images) can be sent
over the internet; two or more workstations can be connected together to
provide better-than-voice-quality audio.  This means you can talk to anyone 
using the internet that has a compatible digital audio system.

There are a number of freely-available digital audio transmission (a.k.a. 
Internet Telephone) systems, and some are ready to run on any number of 
different platforms. We'll take a look at one which is ready to run under 
Linux (and other UNIX systems) as well as all of the MS Windows systems.
We'll also look at supporting Internet services, and the user interfaces. 
Finally (time and hardware permitting), we'll try to demonstrate the 
application on a pair of computers.

Robert Brown is a founding member and current chairman of KLUG, and has over
20 years experience in software development in numerous environments, disciplines,
and industries. An intermittant user of UNIX systems for close to 10 years, Bob
has developed software in the distributed processing and client-server models.
When he's not bouncing between network nodes, or clients, he can be seen 
cycling on the Kal-Haven trail, hiking the countryside in search of nature 
photographs, or helping to organize volunteer activities around computing, 
for KLUG and the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).
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SPECIAL NOTE:
Meeting attendence is important! Coming to three meetings will qualify you
as a full member of KLUG, meaning that you can participate in the process of
making formal decisions, including voting for officers.

During the last week in January, KLUG decided (by vote) to define a voting
KLUG member as one who has attended three KLUG meetings:

   "In order to make any group wide decisions during a meeting, at least
    7 people must be in attendance, and each of these 7 people must have
    been to at least 3 meetings before."

As there are people who are examing how to better organize KLUG to serve a
growing list of people interested in Linux, it's important to be aware of
this so you can be assured of participating in any group decisions.

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Our meeting place, THIS TUESDAY at 6 PM is:

    Pharmacia and Upjohn (Building 298)
    That's the north-east corner of Portage St. and Bishop Rd.
      (Bishop is the first street that goes from Sprinkle to Portage
       south of the airport)
    Entrances to the parking lot are about 500 feet north (on Portage)
              and 400 feet east (on Bishop) of the intersection.
    There will be specific directions at the front door when you get there,

           Bldg. 298 is a large glass building with a sloping front.

All are welcome.

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The KLUG web site is:

    http://klug.armintl.com/