Our next meeting is Wednesday August 3rd at the downtown public library.

Library staff will come by early on to tell us about a free event that happens to be going on before our second August meeting with music and free 'mocktails'.  So I guess we can give our normal bartender the night off on the 16th. 

I also heard about free take-home Chrome-book (Linux based) laptops that the library is offering, and I think I might check one out before the meeting this week so we can all take a look at it.  I'm curious just how much admin access they grant on the things.  They come with their own 4g LTE modems.  We shouldn't reinstall them, but can they boot a usb live linux distribution, for example?  Can they act as a gateway for a home network?  Can you install your own Chrome extensions, and how smoothly do all of your settings/customizations 'just work' when you log in for the first time?

We'll pass one around August 3rd and look at what it can do, and if you like it, you can pick up your own downstairs to bring back within 3 weeks.