From: William KendrickSubject: Linux User Group of Davis, March 7th, "PNG Graphics Format" To: lwn@lwn.net Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:51:10 -0800 (PST) MEETING ------- The meeting will be held on: Tuesday, March 7th, 2000 at 6:30pm The meeting will be held at: Z-World, Inc. Room 9 2900 Spafford Street Davis, CA 95616 TOPICS ------ * PNG - Portable Network Graphics, Greg Roelofs PNG is an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images. PNG provides a PATENT-FREE replacement for the popular GIF format. Greg Roelofs is the author of the book "PNG: The Definitive Guide," recently released by O'Reilly and Associates. He will be travelling to Davis to speak at LUGOD during our Tuesday, March 7th meeting. He will be discussing the capabilities of PNG (like alpha transparency and gamma and color correction), and the status of Linux PNG tools. He'll also spend some time talking about his work on the Mozilla Open Source web browser project. For details on this meeting, maps, directions, public transportation schedules, etc., visit: http://www.lugod.org/meeting/upcoming/2000.03.07/ ABOUT LUGOD ----------- LUGOD, the Linux Users' Group of Davis, is a non-profit organization dedicated to Linux, a free, Unix-like Operating System available for a number of computer platforms. Meetings are held on the first Tuesday and third Monday of each month at the headquarters of Z-World, Inc., at 2900 Spafford Street in Davis. Please visit our website for details: http://www.lugod.org/ -bill! sys@lugod.org http://www.lugod.org/