Enclosed is an update on our June 2002 Expo meeting...

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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK JUNE 2002 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S JUNE 2002 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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      When:  Tentatively: Wednesday 26-JUN-2002

     Where:  TECHXNY / PC EXPO
             Jacob Javits Convention Center
             Conference Room ???? (to be determined)

      Time:  Tentatively: 5:30pm (after show hours)

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     Topic:  Linux Multimedia Tools: Audio, Video and Imaging
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   Speaker:  Marco Scoffier

             We also may have at least one Linux/Unix vendor as a
             guest speaker.


   Unigroup is planning to hold our JUNE 2002 meeting at the TECHXNY
   show this week, after show hours.  Keep an eye on our web page
        http://www.unigroup.org
   for meeting details as they develop.  We have received
   confirmation from our speaker, but we have not locked down the
   meeting room with the show management as yet.

   The TECHXNY / PC EXPO show will be at the Javits Center in NYC
   this week.  Enclosed is an official (reminder) announcement for
   the show, including registration instructions.

   Unigroup would like to thank TECHXNY and CMP for their support
   regarding member discounts and a meeting room.

   This meeting, like all our Expo meetings in the past, will be
   Free and Open to the Public.


   Description of Talk:
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   This talk will be a discussion of the some of the most exciting
   multimedia tools available for Linux today and the particular
   strengths that free software can offer the passionate user of
   digial audio, video, and graphics.  

   Topics covered will include (but please come armed with as many
   questions as you may have):
   
   Graphics:

   The GIMP       Graphics & Animation
                  http://www.gimp.org

   sane/xsane     Scanner Interface
                  http://www.mostang.com/sane

   Video:

   dvgrab & Kino  Digital Video Capture & Editing
                  http://www.schirmacher.de/arne/kino/index_e.html

   transcode      Digital Video Compression Codec Translation
                  http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/

   Audio:         (this section will probably be quite quick)

   LAD            An example of a necessary environment for often
                  fractured multimedia projects.
                  http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/

   Alsa           http://www.alsa-project.org/

   jack           http://jackit.sourceforge.net/

   LADSPA         http://www.ladspa.org/


   Speaker Biography:
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   Marco Scoffier has an MFA from France's most pretigious art school
   where he taught proprietary audio and video technology for 3 years.
   He came to free software looking for a sustainable solution for his
   own creative enterprises and hopes to be a vector through which
   other people will come to be convinced of the necessity
   and power of free open source solutions in digital multimedia.
          
   For more information about Marco, see the following article from the
   New York Linux Scene Journal:
       http://www.nylxs.com/journal/articles/article6.html

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2. TECHXNY / PC EXPO REMINDER ANNOUNCEMENT
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   TECHXNY/PC EXPO
   June 25-27, 2002
   Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
   New York City
   http://www.techxny.com

   Next week, major vendors will be exhibiting, new companies will be
   demonstrating just-released products, and industry luminaries will
   be speaking at our conference.  Pre-Registered attendance for
   TECHXNY/PC EXPO is way up from last year - did you register for
   your pass yet?

   Don't be the only one left out of these exciting events and
   programs running at TECHXNY/PC EXPO!

   OPEN TO ALL ATTENDEES
   - TECHXNY Keynotes from Microsoft, IBM, RIM, In-Q-Tel
   - Feature Presentation 20 Year Milestone: Integrating Business
     and IT Yesterday and Tomorrow from CRN and VARBusiness
   - Mobile Connections Platinum Presentations from
     PalmSource, HP and IBM
   - PC EXPO
   - DV Expo - for digital video professionals
   - Web Services, Java, XML Edge Events - developers event
   - PC EXPO Pavilions from Palm, Microsoft, Entrepreneur Magazine
     and Recordable DVD
   - RDVDC Conference Program
   - Best of Show Awards - PC Magazine and PC EXPO
   - WITI/Women in Technology International Show Floor Theater
     at PC EXPO
   - Listman UnitedHome - Creating the Home Control PC -
     presented by Listman and Broadband House at PC EXPO

   TECHXNY CONFERENCE PROGRAMS
   - Technology, Continuity & Security
   - Visionary Keynoters
   - Small Business Summit
   - Mobile Connections
   - Storage & High Availability Summit
   - Start-Up World New York
   - Best of Novell BrainShare
   - Linux Boot Camp
   - Windows 2000 Boot Camp

   Register NOW for your FREE expo pass.  Unigroup Members are
   entitled to 15% off any conference package...

   TO REGISTER, ITS 3 EASY STEPS:
     1. http://www.techxny.com/
     2. Click to register
   or you may call 1-800-842-0797 x3184

   The listed show hours are:
       Tue  10am - 5pm
       Wed  10am - 5pm
       Thu  10am - 4pm

   Keep an eye out for a Unigroup meeting on Wednesday at the show.

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I hope to see you all at our next meeting!

-Rob Weiner
 Unigroup Executive Director
 unilist@unigroup.org
 http://www.unigroup.org

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