[announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming: Wednesday on Big Blue Button

[NYC*BUG Announcements]

*  This month's meeting on Wednesday will feature well-known author, 
advocate and sysadmin Dru Lavigne on Big Blue Button.

*  AsiaBSDCon (.org) is only three weeks away

*  BSDCan (.org) registration is now open at 
http://www.bsdcan.org/2011/register.php

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March 02, 2011
Dru Lavigne on BigBlueButton

6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant backroom
111 Broadway in Manhattan
http://www.suspendersbar.com/

This talk will provide an overview and demonstration of BigBlueButton 
(http://www.bigbluebutton.org/), an open source project that originated 
at Ottawa`s Carleton University. It was designed to enable universities 
to deliver a high quality learning experience to remote users, but can 
be used by any organization looking for an integrated web conferencing 
system. Features include video conferencing, shared presentations, 
shared whiteboard, instant chat, auto chat translation, and localization.

Speaker Biography

Dru Lavigne is the Director of Community Development for the PC-BSD 
Project where she leads the documentation team, assists new users, helps 
to find and fix bugs, and reaches out to members of the open source 
community to discover their needs. She is the current Chair of the BSD 
Certifiication Group and author of BSD Hacks, The Best of FreeBSD 
Basics, and The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD.