| Meetings To Be Scheduled
 Company or Organization Presentations:
  The following people, companies or organizations have offered to do talks
  at LUGOD on these various subjects, but a meeting date has not yet been
  confirmed.  Once they have, they'll be moved to our
  Upcoming Meetings page. (In no particular order.)
 
 
 
![[geek:3]](/geekometer/geekometer3t.png) Alison Chaiken   - "Automotive Linux" Location:
      To Be Announced
 
   Exact topic TBA.About the Speaker:
 Alison Chaiken is a senior
   software engineer at the
   Embedded Software Division of
   Mentor Graphics, working in embedded Linux and middleware. She was
   in the recent past a MeeGo
   Technical Consultant at Nokia Mobility
   Solutions, and describes herself as 'a recovering physicist', who has
   computed primarily on Unix since the days of the VAX 11/750. Before her
   work at Nokia, she worked on pervasive computing projects at HP Labs,
   then moved to Stanford Linear Accelerator Center to write instrument
   control and user interface software.
 
 
 
  
![[geek:3]](/geekometer/geekometer3t.png) Patrick Stinson   - "Embedding Python as a Realtime Audio Scripting Engine" Location:
      To Be Announced
 
   Topics will include separation and communication between the
   application and scripting engine, why Python is "safe" for audio
   work including empirical performance metrics, and caveats related
   to multithreaded processing as performance requirements increase. I
   will share my experiences using the standard
   CPython implementation
   to research and develop a state-of-the-art scripting engine for the
   Play commercial sampling engine.
   
 About the Speaker: Patrick Stinson has a BSc in Computer Science
   from the University of
   London and currently lives in the North Lake Tahoe area. He started
   out working with CPython and Zope/Plone in his home town of Anchorage,
   Alaska and has most recently developed the user interface and scripting
   engine for the Hollywood-Based "Play" music platform.
 
 Play is a commercial audio engine intended for building software
   musical instruments. It runs in popular audio plugin formats, and
   provides a scripting engine that allows studio musicians to create
   complex musical effects and sequencing behavior. It uses Qt for the
   GUI, juce for audio support, and python for the scripting engine.
 
 
 
  
![[geek:3]](/geekometer/geekometer3t.png) Bill Braasch, Business Developer, Itemscript   - "Itemscript" Location:
      To Be Announced
 
   Itemscript is a standard
  provisioning language for rich web applications.  It is a simple
  declarative language based on JSON that describes applications,
  components, events and data in an open, standard language built on JSON
  that's independent of the details of any particular implementation. Any
  component can be swapped out for an independent reimplementation, and
  all of Itemscript's protocols and APIs are documented.  The goal of
  the project is to provide an easy to learn, easy to use, easy to change
  application environment based on JSON. On the server, Itemscript exposes
  elements while hiding the details of the service or access method. On
  the client, Itemscript provisions pages, widgets and components while
  hiding the implementation details of the AJAX application. 
 
 
  
 
 LUGOD Member Presentations:The following members of LUGOD offered to give talks or mini-presentations
on these various topics, but a meeting date hasn't yet been chosen.
Once they are set, they'll be moved to our
Upcoming Meetings page. (They are ordered
alphabetically, by member's last name.)
 
![[geek:0]](/geekometer/geekometer0t.png) Richard Burkhart   - "Music and Audio with Ubuntu Studio" Location:
      To Be Announced
 
   Exact topic TBA. 
 
 
  
 
 
 Mini-PresentationsMini-presentations are short (5-15 minute) demonstrations or talks
that occur right before the main talk at a meeting.
If you'd like to present a 'mini', please let us know:
pr@lugod.org.
![[geek:3]](/geekometer/geekometer3t.png) Rod Roark, Sunset Systems   - "OpenVZ" Location:
      To Be Announced
 
   OpenVZ is an operating
  system-level virtualization technology based on the Linux kernel and
  operating system. OpenVZ allows a physical server to run multiple
  isolated operating system instances, known as containers, Virtual
  Private Servers (VPSs), or Virtual Environments (VEs). It's similar
  to FreeBSD Jails and Solaris Zones. 
 
 
  
 
 
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