UPCOMING MEETINGS

Unless otherwise noted, our meetings are held on the first Tuesday and third Monday of each month, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

Monday, March 15, 2010
Various LUGOD members - "Revision Control Roundtable"

A roundtable discussion among a number of LUGOD members, discussing the various ways they use different revision control systems: RCS, CVS, SVN, git, Mercurial, Bazaar, etc. Centralized versus distributed version control. Non-programming uses: Note-taking, grub config syncing, photo transfers, website updates, and other purposes! Plus an explanation of version control to those who have never used it and aren't necessarily programmers or from a CS background. (See also, this comparison of some of the popular systems.)

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Monday, March 15, 2010
Bill Alexander, Bill Kendrick, Wes Hardaker(?), Alex Mandel(?) and others(?), LUGOD - "Revision Control Roundtable"

A roundtable discussion among a number of LUGOD members, discussing the various ways they use different revision control systems: RCS, CVS, SVN, git, Hg, etc. Centralized versus distributed version control. Non-programming uses: Note-taking, grub config syncing, photo transfers, website updates, and other purposes! Plus an explanation of version control to those who have never used it and aren't necessarily programmers or from a CS background.

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, April 19, 2010
Christian Einfeldt - "Linux in K-12 Education"

Exact topic TBA.

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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, May 17, 2010
Adam Yergovich, JK microsystems, Inc. - "µClinux [TENTATIVE]"

µClinux, which stands for "MicroController Linux", was a fork of the Linux kernel for microcontrollers (embedded systems) which lack memory management units (MMUs). It has since been integrated into the main line of Linux kernel development. It supports numerous architectures, including ARM, m68k, Hitachi H8, MIPS and others.

JK microsystems of Davis specializes in DOS-based single board computers and ARM Linux microcontrollers for dataq acquisition, industrial control and networking.

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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, June 21, 2010
Wes Hardaker - "MythTV open source DVR [TENTATIVE]"

MythTV is a free, open source software digital video recorder (DVR) project. The creators consider it as the ultimate Digital Video Recorder and home media center hub (an open source alternative to Windows Media Center or TiVo). Along with recording and playing back television shows, it can also manage personal photo, video and music collections, work with a home security system, manage NetFlix movie queues, play games, provide weather info and forecasts, and more! It runs on both Linux and Mac OS X.

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, July 19, 2010
Owen DeLong, Hurricane Electric - "Introduction to IPv6 Socket Programming"

An introduction to porting applications from IPv4-only to IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack with working code examples.

About the speaker:
Owen DeLong is an IPv6 Evangelist at Hurricane Electric, the leading IPv6 Provider. He is also a member of the ARIN Advisory Council. He brings over 20 years of experience in TCP/IP networking and UNIX systems administration.
In addition, he is also an Open Water SCUBA Instructor, a Commercial Pilot, and holds a level 2 High Power Rocketry certification.

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Tuesday, August 3, 2010
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, August 16, 2010
Michael Wenk - "NSLU2-Linux"

The Linksys NSLU2 is a small, low-cost network storage device. Its main purpose is to server as a network file server. NSLU2-Linux is a set of projects that allow users to update their NSLU2's firmware to turn it into a full-fledged Linux computer. This opens the doors for all sorts of uses: network monitor, jukebox or UPnP media server, SMB and FTP server, VoIP PBX, weather station, firewall, etc.

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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, September 20, 2010
Scott McCreary and Urias McCullough, Haiku Project - "Haiku [TENTATIVE]"

Haiku (Wikipedia entry) is a project to create an open source operating system compatible with BeOS. BeOS was optimized for digital media work and was written to take advantage of modern hardware facilities such as symmetric multiprocessing, pervasive multithreading, preemptive multitasking and a custom 64-bit journaling file system known as BFS. Its GUI was developed on the principles of clarity and a clean, uncluttered design and its API was written in C++ for ease of programming. Though it has POSIX compatibility and access to a command-line interface through Bash, internally it is not a Unix-derived operating system. Haiku aims to be compatible with BeOS at both the source and binary level, allowing software written and compiled for BeOS to compile and run without modification on Haiku.

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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, October 18, 2010
Joe Eagar, Blender Project - "Overcoming repeated failure and attaining success in an open source project"

Joe is a developer with the blender project, spearheading the bmesh project, which is a rewrite of the mesh modeler to allow n-sided polygons and easier, more flexible modeling workflows.

This talk will present a history of the mesh rewrite project, and how the failure of the first two attempts were ultimately good for the project.

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, November 15, 2010
Ambroff Linden, Linden Lab - ""Eventlet" network library [TENTATIVE]"

'Eventlet' is an open source library maintained by Linden Lab, makers of Second Life. Eventlet is a networking library for Python that allows the creation of hugely scalable web services. It can also be used for writing tools that manage 6000-8000 servers concurrently.

This talk will examine concurrency models: processes and threads (such as Apache 'prefork' multi-processing module (mpm-prefork)), event driven (as used in lighttpd and twisted), and Eventlet. Ambroff will then explain Eventlet internals, talk about how Linden Lab uses Eventlet for highly scalable web services and tools, and demonstrate a COMET-style live chat web application or publish/subscribe (asynchronous messaging system), written in Django, running on the WSGI server Spawning, powered by Eventlet.

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, December 20, 2010
Stephen Chin, Lead Developer, WidgetFX - ""WidgetFX" JavaFX-based widget platform [TENTATIVE]"

WidgetFX is a desktop widget platform written in the new JavaFX Script language. It can run widgets written in either JavaFX Script or Java and takes advantage of the latest features in Java SE 6.

Stephen Chin is the lead developer of WidgetFX and JFXtras, utilities and add-ons for JavaFX. He is the co-author of the book Pro JavaFX Platform.

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, January 17, 2011
Mark Terranova, GidgetKitchen.org - "Lucid Lynx- reflections on the good (and not so good): Ubuntu's acceptance into technology's fabric."

Details TBA.

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