PAST MEETINGS

Minutes from all of LUGOD's past meetings are listed below, with the latest meeting first. Many meetings include photos () and presentation slides ().

(If your group is interested in having any of these speakers or topics at your events, check out the SBAY Speakers Bureau for help, and/or contact LUGOD's Public Relations Officer.)

2008

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• 2008.04.21 — CTL
  Alex Honor, ControlTier:
  

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• 2008.03.17 — The Open Source Security Information Management (OSSIM) project
  Brian Lavender:
  

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• 2008.02.18 — GPSr Waypoint Management Linux Tools and Geocaching
  Wes Hardaker, GeoQO project:
  

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• 2008.01.21 — The Digital Tipping Point (It's All About You: LUGs)
  Christian Einfeldt, Producer:
  

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  2007

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• 2007.12.17 — Tux Paint 'Magic' Tool Plug-in API (Minutes pending)
  Bill Kendrick, New Breed Software:
  

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• 2007.11.19 — Adobe Flex and ActionScript on Linux (Minutes pending)
  Seth Duffey, WeBot.com:
  

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• 2007.10.15 — The 'Google Summer of Code' program
  Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source Program Manager, Google, Inc.:
  

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• 2007.09.17 — Rivendell Radio Automation software and KDRT-LP
  Darrick Servis and Jeff Shaw, KDRT-LP 101.5FM, Davis:
  

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• 2007.08.20 — Improving Security through Virtualization (Minutes pending)
  Bill Broadley, Computational Science and Engineering, UC Davis:
  

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• 2007.07.16 — Post-Processing High Dynamic Range (HDR) Panoramas Using Open Source Tools
  Steve Wormley:
  

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• 2007.06.18 — Tux Paint, Again
  Bill Kendrick, New Breed Software:
  

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• 2007.05.21 — Oracle's Linux Engineering Update
  Sunil Mushran, Sr. Dev. Mgr., Oracle Linux Engineering Group and Todd Trichler, Sr. Principal Product Mgr., Oracle Technology Network:
  

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• 2007.04.16 — Whole Earth Festival Coordination (Minutes pending)
  
  

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• 2007.03.19 — Ingres 2006 Relational Database
  John Murphy, Client Services Engineer, Ingres Corporation:
  

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• 2007.02.19 — Creating Accessible Websites
  Seth Duffey, Webmaster, City of Davis:
  

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• 2007.01.15 — IMAP Sharing and rsync
  Brian Lavender:
  

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  2006

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• 2006.12.18
  Canceled

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• 2006.11.20 — IPv6 under Linux
  Nick Schmalenberger:
  

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• 2006.10.16 — Postfix
  Rod Roark, Sunset Systems:
  

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• 2006.09.18 — The Bento Solution
  John Miché:
  

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• 2006.08.21 — GPS/Cartography
  Dylan Beaudette:
  

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• 2006.07.17 — iptables (Minutes pending)
  Ryan Castellucci:
  

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• 2006.06.19 — Xen Virtualization
  Luke S. Crawford:
  

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• 2006.05.15 — Sybase on Linux (Minutes pending)
  Sybase, Inc.:
  

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• 2006.04.17 — gtkmm
  R. Douglas Barbieri:
  

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• 2006.03.20 — DVD Authoring with Linux
  Kyle Rankin:
  

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• 2006.03.02 — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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• 2006.02.20 — Drupal Content Management System
  Steven Peck:
  

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• 2006.01.16 — Linux Microcontrollers
  Adam Yergovich, JK Micro:
  

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  2005

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• 2005.12.19 — Tux Paint, Technically
  Bill Kendrick, New Breed Software:
  

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• 2005.12.19-officers — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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• 2005.11.21 — Publishing Computer Books
  William Pollock, No Starch Press:
  

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• 2005.11.19 — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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• 2005.10.17
  Canceled

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• 2005.09.19 — ColdFusion 7 on Linux
  Seth Duffey:
  

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• 2005.08.15 — Linux on commodity network hardware
  Josh Parsons:
  

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• 2005.07.18 — HDTV HTPC Using Linux
  Steve Wormley:
  

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• 2005.07.05 — Wine and Samba Integration Possibilities
  Juan Lang:
  

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• 2005.06.20 — Ruby on Rails
  Henry House:
  

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• 2005.06.07 — Blogging & Journaling
  Brad Whitaker, LiveJournal.com & Frank Precissi, DeadJournal.com:
  

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• 2005.04.18 — DavisWiki
  Philip Neustrom & Mike Ivanov:
  

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• 2005.04.05 — IP Video and Multicast Streaming
  Ted Deppner:
  

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• 2005.03.21 — A Review of UNIX File Systems; plus, LinuxChix.org
  Valerie Henson, IBM:
  

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• 2005.03.01 — Revision Control Systems
  Ken Bloom:
  

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• 2005.02.14
  Canceled

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• 2005.02.01 — Typography and PostScript
  Micah Cowan:
  

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• 2005.01.17 — Open Vote Foundation; and 'How not to do Electronic Voting'
  Scott Ritchie, Open Vote Foundation & Jim March, BlackBoxVoting.org:
  

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• 2005.01.04 — Knoppix
  Kyle Rankin:
  

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  2004

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• 2004.12.20
  Canceled

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• 2004.12.07 — Implementation of Open Source at the California ARB and FTB
  Bill Fell, Harry Ng and Allen Lung, California Air Resources and Franchise Tax Boards:
  

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• 2004.11.15 — The History of SourceForge.net
  Patrick McGovern, Director, SourceForge.net:
  

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• 2004.11.02 — Election Day Dinner
  (No speaker):
  

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• 2004.10.18 — RaveHD
  Jason & Ramona Howard, SpectSoft:
  

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• 2004.10.05 — gumstix - Tiny Linux boards
  Gordon Kruberg, Founder & CEO, gumstix, Inc.:
  

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• 2004.09.20 — K12LTSP: Linux Terminal Server Project
  Steve Hargadon, Hargadon Computer, Inc.:
  

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• 2004.09.07 — Cascading Style Sheets
  Seth Duffey, Sacramento ColdFusion Users Group:
  

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• 2004.08.16 — Linux on Laptops - Adventures in mobile Linux computing
  Chander Kant, LinuxCertified, Inc.:
  

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• 2004.08.03 — Zope/Plone
  Steve McMahon, Reid-McMahon, LLC:
  

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• 2004.07.19 — Kommander
  Robert Nickel:
  

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• 2004.07.06 — Tools for SOA Web Programs -- using Dynamic Objects
  Sheng-Chuan Wu and Charley Cox, Franz, Inc.:
  

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• 2004.06.21 — Shell Basics
  Mike Simons:
  

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• 2004.06.20 — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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• 2004.06.01 — WiFiLi: Hardware to Software, Security to Intrusion
  Hans Uhlig:
  

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• 2004.05.17 — Oracle Clustering Filesystem version 2
  Kurt Hackle, Oracle:
  

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• 2004.05.04 — Music on Linux
  Doug Barbieri:
  

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• 2004.04.27 — LUGOD/DCM Meeting
  
  

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• 2004.04.19 — Penguins Can Fly! The SGI Altix
  Steve Caruso, Silicon Graphics, Inc.:
  

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• 2004.04.06 — KDE 3.2: A User's Perspective
  Bill Kendrick:
  

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• 2004.03.15 — Linux Traffic Shaping with Netfilter and Iproute2
  Gabe Rosa:
  

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• 2004.03.02 — Autoconf and Automake Basics
  Mark K. Kim:
  

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• 2004.02.16 — SSL: Secure Socket Layer
  Tim Stapko and Gene Fodor, Z-World:
  

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• 2004.02.03 — Digital Video and Linux
  Doug Barbieri:
  

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• 2004.01.19 — LUGOD 5th Anniversary Celebration
  (No Speaker):
  

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• 2004.01.06 — MySQL Basics
  Michael Wenk:
  

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  2003

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• 2003.12.15 — High Definition Video under Linux
  Jason Howard, Ramona Howard, SpectSoft:
  

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• 2003.12.02 — Kid's Software for Linux
  Bill Kendrick, New Breed Software:
  

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• 2003.11.17 — Appaserver Open Source Application Server
  Tim Riley, Appahost.com:
  

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• 2003.11.04 — The SLIMP3 Network Music Player
  Sean Adams, Slim Devices, Inc.:
  

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• 2003.10.20 — Erasing the Digital Divide - The Simputer Portable Computer
  Edward Cherlin, Encore Technologies:
  

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• 2003.10.07 — AMD64 and Linux: The platform of choice
  Marc Miller, Strategic Alliance Manager, AMD:
  

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• 2003.10.05 — LUGOD / CS Club Meeting
  
  

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• 2003.09.29 — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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• 2003.09.15 — Über TiVo - Hacking the TiVo
  Ryan Castelluci:
  

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• 2003.09.02 — zeroCode
  Dr. M. A. Sridhar, Chief Architect, Ampersand Corp.:
  

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• 2003.08.18 — Affero Rating and Reputation Service for Online Works
  Chris Reed, Affero Inc.:
  

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• 2003.07.21 — The Empire Strikes Back: Constraining Free Software Development
  Seth Schoen, Electronic Frontier Foundation:
  

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• 2003.07.01 — BlueCat Linux
  Vinh Du, Vik Sohal, LynuxWorks:
  

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• 2003.06.16 — Nvidia's Cg Shading Language
  Gabe Rosa:
  

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• 2003.06.03 — ZIP 4x4 Linux-based IP Phone
  Patrick Ferriter, Zultys Technologies:
  

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• 2003.05.06 — IBM and Linux: The Big Blue Penguin
  Roy Greenwood, IBM's Linux Impact Team:
  

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• 2003.04.21 — Oracle Clustering File System
  Mark Fasheh, Todd Trichler, Oracle Linux Development Team:
  

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• 2003.04.11 — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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• 2003.04.01 — The Linux-based 'Moxi' Media Center
  Guy Sotomayor, Nick Glassman, Digeo:
  

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• 2003.03.17 — The K Desktop Environment
  Ronald Krause, Charles Samuels, The KDE Team:
  

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• 2003.03.04 — Getting Involved with Mozilla
  Asa Dotzler, Netscape Communications:
  

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• 2003.02.17 — 802.11b Wireless Networking Basics
  Ryan Castelluci:
  

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• 2003.02.04 — Anticircumvention Provisions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA)
  Don Marti, Editor in Chief, Linux Journal:
  

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• 2003.01.20 — REVOLUTION OS Film Screening
  
  

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• 2003.01.19 — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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• 2003.01.07 — Sony's 'Linux for the PlayStation 2' kit
  Adam Bertsch, Sony Computer Entertainment, America:
  

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  2002

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• 2002.12.16 — C99: The New C Programming Language Standard
  Micah Cowan:
  

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• 2002.12.15 — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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• 2002.12.03 — How to Build Debian Packages
  Sean 'Shaleh' Perry:
  

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• 2002.11.18 — The BASIC Stamp Programmable Microcontroller
  Ken Gracey, Andy Lindsey, Parallax Inc.:
  

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• 2002.11.05 — Legal Issues for Open Source Projects
  Lawrence Rosen, Open Source Initiative:
  

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• 2002.10.21 — Rapid GUI Development with Glade
  Dave Peticolas:
  

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• 2002.10.01 — CrossOver Office and CrossOver Plugin
  Francois Gouget, CodeWeavers:
  

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• 2002.09.16 — Music and Linux
  Bill Alexander:
  

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• 2002.09.03 — HP Blade Servers
  Zane Westover, Hewlett-Packard:
  

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• 2002.08.19 — Effective Linux Evangelism
  Jon 'maddog' Hall, Linux International:
  

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• 2002.08.06 — Networking Linux in a Heterogenous Environment
  Stephen Helms:
  

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• 2002.08.02 — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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• 2002.07.15 — ReiserFS v.4
  Hans Reiser:
  

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• 2002.07.02 — PHP Hypertext Processing Language
  Rasmus Lerdorf:
  

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• 2002.06.27 — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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• 2002.06.17 — Actualdepth Quasi-3D LCD Monitors
  Steve Smith, Deep Video Imaging Ltd.:
  

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• 2002.06.04 — What Linux Users Should Know About .NET
  Ted Neward, DevelopMentor:
  

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• 2002.05.20 — Embedded Linux Consortium, LinuxDevices.com
  Murry Shohat, Rick Lehrbaum:
  

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• 2002.05.16 — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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• 2002.05.07 — FlightGear and OpenGC
  Andy Ross, Jim Brennan, John Wojnaroski:
  

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• 2002.04.15 — The VI Editor
  Verbus M. Counts:
  

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• 2002.04.12 — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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• 2002.04.02 — The SETI@home Project
  Dr. David P. Anderson, UC Berkeley:
  

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• 2002.03.18 — The Anatomy of ALICE
  Dr. Richard S. Wallace, ALICE AI Foundation:
  

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• 2002.03.05 — Building an Embedded Linux Prototype
  Chuck Groom and Devin Carraway, Blue Mug, Inc.:
  

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• 2002.02.18 — µClinux
  Rob Wehrli, Arizona Cooperative Power and Larry Gagliani, Hitachi:
  

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• 2002.02.05 — DOSSIER and The Meta Project
  Rich Morin, Prime Time Freeware:
  

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• 2002.01.21 — dLoo Springbox
  Nile Geisinger and Alex Ledin:
  

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• 2002.01.13 — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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  2001

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• 2001.12.17 — The Sharp "Zaurus" (SL-5500) Linux/Java-based PDA
  Bill Kendrick:
  

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• 2001.12.04 — OSDN: Open Source Development Network
  Chris DiBona:
  

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• 2001.11.19 — devfs
  Pete Salzman:
  

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• 2001.11.06 — The QUEST Remotely Operated Vehicle
  Tyler Schilling, ALSTOM/Schilling Robotics:
  

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• 2001.10.17 — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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• 2001.10.15 — Myth of Software Labor Shortage
  Dr. Norman Matloff, UC Davis:
  

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• 2001.10.02 — Mac OS X
  Robert Doss, Apple Computer:
  

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• 2001.09.17 — Netfilter
  Jan Wynholds:
  

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• 2001.09.04 — The Gimp, Part 2: Advanced
  Bill Kendrick:
  

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• 2001.08.27 — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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• 2001.08.20 — The Gimp, Part 1: Basics
  Bill Kendrick:
  

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• 2001.08.07 — Linux-Controlled ARS
  Michael Egan, Sonoma State Univ.:
  

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• 2001.07.16 — HelloBrain.com
  Sid Batra:
  

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• 2001.07.03 — Regular Expressions
  Henry House:
  

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• 2001.06.25 — Officers Meeting
  
  

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• 2001.06.18 — OpenGL Basics
  Gabriel Rosa:
  

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• 2001.06.05 — Kylix RAD Tool for Linux
  Anders Ohlsson, Borland Software:
  

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• 2001.05.21 — LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
  Brian Lavender:
  

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• 2001.05.01 — Open Source Voice Over IP
  Steve Anderson and Cheung Tam, Cisco Systems:
  

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• 2001.04.16 — Blender Intro
  Mark K. Kim:
  

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• 2001.04.03 — FLTK - Fast/Light Toolkit
  Gabriel Rosa:
  

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• 2001.03.19 — Agenda VR3 Linux-based PDA
  Bill Kendrick:
  

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• 2001.03.06 — Bulding the Linux Kernel
  Chuck Polisher:
  

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• 2001.02.19 — PostgreSQL, Perl and PHP
  Henry House, Eric Engelhard:
  

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• 2001.02.06 — Trust and Security
  Dr. Matt Bishop:
  

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• 2001.01.15 — Samba
  Jeremy Allison:
  

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  2000

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• 2000.12.18 — Using DVDs on the Linux Platform
  Pete Salzman:
  

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• 2000.12.05 — SourceForge.net
  Jim Kingdon, VA Linux:
  

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• 2000.11.30 — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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• 2000.11.20 — Open Source Bioinformatics
  Eric Engelhard, Sagres Discovery:
  

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• 2000.11.07 — Zope
  Bill Broadley, UC Davis Math Dept.:
  

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• 2000.10.16 — Intel's IA64 CPU (No Presentation)
  Jeff Bralley, Hewlett Packard:
  

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• 2000.10.03 — Parallel Programming with MPICH
  Nicole Carlson, UC Davis:
  

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• 2000.09.28 — LUGOD/DCN Meeting
  
  

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• 2000.09.27 — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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• 2000.09.18 — Vgetty
  Mark K. Kim:
  

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• 2000.09.05 — More Perl
  Micah Cowan:
  

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• 2000.08.21 — Perl Basics
  Micah Cowan:
  

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• 2000.08.18 — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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• 2000.08.01 — CGI Programming in C (with cgi-util)
  Bill Kendrick:
  

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• 2000.07.17 — Using GTK+
  Drew Parsons:
  

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• 2000.07.04 — Linux LAN Party
  
  

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• 2000.06.19 — GnuCash
  Dave Peticolas:
  

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• 2000.06.06 — Distributed Computing Without Beowulf
  Rob Ferber, OpenSales:
  

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• 2000.05.18 — Officer's Meeting
  
  

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• 2000.05.15 — Linux for Scientific Computing and Clusters
  Bill Saphir, Lawrence Berkeley Labs:
  

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• 2000.05.02 — OpenSSH, International Kernel, Stegenographic Filesystems
  Henry House:
  

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• 2000.04.17 — PGP: Pretty Good Privacy
  Drew Parsons:
  

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• 2000.04.04 — Compiling the Kernel
  Pete Salzman:
  

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• 2000.03.20 — Linux/PPC
  Henry House:
  

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• 2000.03.07 — PNG: Portable Network Graphics / Mozilla
  Greg Roelofs, PNG Group:
  

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• 2000.02.21 — GDB: GNU Debugger, Part II
  Mike Simons:
  

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• 2000.02.01 — GDB: GNU Debugger, Part I
  Mike Simons:
  

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• 2000.01.18 — High Availability / Enlightenment
  Simon Horman and Carsten "Raster" Haitzler, VA Linux:
  

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• 2000.01.03 — SDL Programming, Part II
  Bill Kendrick:
  

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  1999

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• 1999.12.21 — SDL Programming, Part I
  Bill Kendrick:
  

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• 1999.12.06 — C Programming Basics, Part II
  Mark K. Kim:
  

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• 1999.11.16 — C Programming Basics, Part I
  Mark K. Kim:
  

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• 1999.11.01 — Shell Scripting Basics, Part II
  Pete Salzman:
  

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• 1999.10.19 — Shell Scripting Basics, Part I
  Pete Salzman:
  

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• 1999.10.04 — Python
  Allan Hollander:
  

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• 1999.09.21 — Open Country
  Paul Cubbage:
  

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• 1999.09.06 — The GIMP
  Bill Kendrick:
  

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• 1999.08.24 — Firewalling
  Zach White:
  

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• 1999.08.09 — strace
  Mike Simons:
  

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• 1999.07.26 — (No topic)
  
  

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• 1999.07.13 — Shell Scripting, Part II
  Pete Salzman:
  

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• 1999.06.28 — Shell Scripting, Part I
  Pete Salzman:
  

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• 1999.06.14 — Loki Entertainment Software
  Sam Lantinga:
  

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• 1999.05.31 — Linux at UC Davis
  Zach Johnson and Pete Salzman:
  

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• 1999.05.18 — VA Linux Systems
  Chris DiBona:
  

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• 1999.05.03 — BSD Unix
  Adam Steffes, UCD Open Computing Association:
  

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• 1999.04.20 — Flying Windows Screensaver
  Bill Kendrick:
  

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• 1999.04.05 — (No topic)
  
  

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• 1999.03.16 — BoboBot
  Bill Kendrick:
  

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• 1999.03.09 — (No topic)
  
  

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• 1999.02.23 — (No topic)
  
  

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• 1999.02.09 — (No topic)
  
  

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• 1999.01.27 — (No topic)
  
  

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• 1999.01.13 — (No topic)
  
  

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