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<title>Best of Luck to Michael Hammel Issue 23</title>
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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H2>Boulder Linux Users Group -- Best of Luck to Michael Hammel</H2>
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<H4>By <a href="mailto:allen@boulder.Nist.gov">Wayde Allen</a></H4>
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<P>Well since Michael Hammel was our featured speaker for the evening we had
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our obligatory snow storm (grin). It is amazing that every time he
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attends one of our meetings this happens. Nevertheless, we still had 24
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people in attendance.
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<P>For those of you who don't know Michael, he writes the <a
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href="./gm.html">Graphic Muse</a> column
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for <i>Linux Gazette</i>, maintains the Linux Graphics mini-HowTO, helps
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administer the internet <a href="http://irtc.org">Ray Tracing Competition</a>,
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coauthored the UNIX Web Server book, designed the magazine cover for the
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November issue of <i>Linux Journal</i>, and is also the author of a four part
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article "The Quick Start Guide to the GIMP" now running in <i>Linux
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Journal</i>.
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<P>His presentation started out with a demo of the GNU Image Manipulation
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Program (GIMP) showcasing many of its features, and perhaps more
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importantly giving us all an idea of what it could do. The discussion
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then turned to GUI builders. The group discussed their experiences,
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likes, dislikes, advantages, disadvantages, and general opinions of many
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different GUI design software packages. Supporting this discussion,
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Michael showed us examples of GUI building using XForms (I hope I've got
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this right) and Visual TCL.
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<P>After this discussion, Michael showed a 10 minute video tape of Toy Story
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animated shorts done by Pixar. I think that everyone got a few good
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laughs from this. We then held a drawing for two CD's from the Internet
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Ray Tracing competition, and a copy of the November <i>Linux Journal</i>.
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As usual, we wrapped up the evening with a general discussion
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of Linux related topics.
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<P>Since Michael is moving to Dallas next week, I particularly want to thank
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him for his support of our group!!! I have appreciated him taking the
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time to talk to us, and have always enjoyed his presentations. I want to
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wish him the best of luck at his new job. It might be a good idea to warn
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the North Texas Linux User's Group of an impending change in their weather
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though (very big grin). Perhaps he can continue to participate in our
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discussions on the mailing list?
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<center><H5>Copyright © 1997, Wayde Allen<BR>
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Published in Issue 23 of <i>Linux Gazette</i>, December 1997</H5></center>
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