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2003.10.20


Meeting Minutes

Edward Cherlin, Encore Technologies
Erasing the Digital Divide - The Simputer Portable Computer

Davis Public Library, Davis, CA

Photos by Bill Kendrick


Edward was late, so Mike Simons stalled for time by doing a breif talk on the "/proc" filesystem.


Crowd shot


Ever-present 'Free Stuff' table


More free stuff


Seeing what's in "/proc". The numbered directories correspond to running processes (their PIDs).


Mike doing the talk.


Comparing what you see in /proc to what 'top' shows.


The crowd watches on.


Bill Kendrick tries looking at "/proc" stuff on his Zaurus Linux-based PDA.


You can see what files a process has open using /proc!


Edward Cherlin arrives, sporting a dandy anti-spam t-shirt.


We didn't know it, but Edward's part of CAUCE!


CAUCE is the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email!


Edward shows a Simputer Linux-based PDA.


Edward with the Simputer.


Edward continuing to show the Simputer.


The crowd listens.


An amusing motto in his slides.


Edward talking with the crowd.


With USB ports, you can connect a cheap keyboard to the Simputer!


There's also on-screen keyboard.


Music and audio player.


Speech synthesizer. (Recognition is planned)


Closer-up to the Simputer.


After the talk, part of the crowd gathers around to see it up close.


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