Providence Geeks to meet Wednesday, with presentation of free software for schools
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Providence Geeks meet about once a month in the storefront at AS220, 115 Empire Street, to mill, drink beer, dine, and watch a presentation by a geek. The next meet is this Wednesday, from 5:30 p.m. to 9 or so. The presentation: SchoolTool: Managing an International, Philanthropically Funded Open Source Project from a Victorian in Elmwood "by long-time Providence Geek Tom Hoffman. Tom will present SchoolTool, the open source project he manages, and discuss free software philanthropy. Details here. " More on Tom, a longtime Providence blogger: How did a former Providence school teacher end up working for a South African entrepreneur/philanthropist/cosmonaut, managing programmers in Lithuania and users in Nepal? SchoolTool is a project to create free administrative software for schools around the world, written in Python and Zope 3, funded by Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. If you've wanted to check these gigs out, this sounds like a good one to start with. It's a comfortable, casual crowd. Everybody gets a nametag, so don't worry about socially awkward moments. 
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