Mar 6, 2014 Meeting

Events
March General Monthly Meeting and the 2014 Calgary Linux

AGM part of meeting to start at 7:00 PM to make it easier for more to make it out in time.  (AGM moved ahead)

  • Meeting Time:  March 6th at  6:05 PM – 8:00 PM
  • doors open at 6:00 PM – Room: 426
  • Location: U of C down town campus
  • 906 – 8th Avenue SW Calgary AB

 

http://clug.ca

Topics or questions I would like to bring up or ask at the monthly meeting:
  • Can mostly everyone show up? That’s the rest of us, not just the hard line coders. Are we are missing out on the 98 % of potential members?
  • What are our motives?
  • Should we all be publishers in this digital age?
  • What are the best/new ways we can think of to collaborate as a club (LUG)?
  • How easy is it for us mortal users to get up to speed on Pelican?  How about a review of getting used to using Github?

See You All at the meeting!

 

We need to decide who is stepping forward as executive.

I hope to see a strong and vibrant club emerge from this AGM, and will support what the membership and new Executive Board decides to do.

I will have served two years as president and will be announcing my resignation before the end of March 2014.

In the event that an executive can not be established, the club will be unable to exist. Any remaining club assets would then have to be donated to some appropriate registered charity. See SECTION 13.0: Dissolution, in the CLUG bylaws.

http://clug.ca/wordpress/about/bylaws/

Mel Walters – president  Calgary Linux users group

 

Meeting 2014, Feb 5

Events
Feb 5, 2014 – CLUG Meeting (Wednesday)

Meeting Time:  meeting: 6:05 PM – 8:00 PM

doors open at 6:00 PM 

Room  Number: 426

Location: U of C down town campus

906 – 8th Avenue SW Calgary AB

http://clug.ca/wordpress/category/events/

Talk by Kin Wong

IT Analyst | University of Calgary – DTC

One Business Application of Gimp and Inkscape

Scenario – We have architectural drawings to a building in PDF format.  The Architects don’t answer my calls and even if they did, they would want lots of dollars for the Autocad drawings.  The as-built already cost some $30K.  The money spent on the emergency evacuation signage are incomplete and some are wrong, we don’t have way of finding signage that are customized to location, and we rent space but don’t have any maps or illustrations for marketing materials.  Of course we are also cash constrained otherwise if you throw enough money at a problem, it goes away.

Solution – Using 2 open source tools for graphics (this spells free on 3 levels – free in terms of cost, free in terms of choice, and free to use on all 3 major platforms (Linux, Windows and OSX), we can take what we have and generate what we need.  You also don’t need a lot of talent but you will need some patience.  The tools we are going to be using are Gimp and Inkscape.

Meeting 2014, Jan 8

Events
Jan 8, 2014 – CLUG Meeting (Wednesday)

Meeting Time:   6:05 PM – 8:00 PM

doors open at 6:00 PM – please drive/transit safely!

Room  Number: 332 confirmed – (holds 50 – 60 people)

Location: U of C down town campus

906 – 8th Avenue SW Calgary AB

http://clug.ca/wordpress/category/events/

Subject to show of interest and weather:
Forecast for Wed Jan 8 is Sunny and plus 7 °C and Low of -1 °C

 

Meeting 2013 Dec 4

Events

December 4, 2013 CLUG Meeting (Wednesday)

Meeting Time:  6:05 PM – 8:00 PM
doors open at 6:00 PM – please drive safely!

Room  Number: 332 confirmed – (holds 50 – 60 people)

Location: U of C down town campus

906 – 8th Avenue SW Calgary AB

http://clug.ca/wordpress/category/events/

Digital Age, where problems AND solutions abound
(We are the solution! (FOSS)

Agenda:

  • Spontaneous group discussions, they have so far proved to be interesting, lively and productive (useful) in past meetings.
  • My talk is not to the presentation or publication stage yet.
  • No one has come forward to give formal (old fashion?) presentations.

Meeting 2013 Nov 6

Events

November 6, 2013 CLUG Meeting (Wednesday)

September 25th, 2013

Meeting Time:  meeting: 6:05 PM – 8:00 PM

doors open at 6:00 PM

Room  Number: 449

Location: U of C down town campus

906 – 8th Avenue SW Calgary AB

General Interest Discussions:

  • 11 people attending but a few more may have slipped in unnoticed

The following may have been included in the spontaneous buzz of smaller group discussions.

  • Virtualization of machines – KVM and others
  • Linux upgrades and distro transition strategies

 

 

October 2, 2013 CLUG Meeting (Wednesday)

Events

Meeting Time:  doors open at 6:00 PM, meeting: 6:05 PM – 8:00 PM

 

Room  Number: 449

 

Location: U of C down town campus

 

906 – 8th Avenue SW Calgary AB

 

Meeting Talks and Discussion Topics:

  •  Short talk about system monitoring and working on a project called Panoptimon
David Crosby — https://github.com/synthesist/panoptimon

  • Setting up a small work/home cloud server?

Pragmatic tools relating to privacy of personal information
  • Git Annex Brancheable
  • OwnCloud – written in the PHP and JavaSript scripting languages

  • Linux RAID storage

  •  Commercial and non-commercial coexistence in Linux and FOSS

Gaps and Bridges ?

 

 

September 4, 2013 CLUG Meeting (Wednesday)

Events

Meeting Time:  doors open at 6:00 PM, meeting: 6:05 PM – 8:00 PM

Room  Number: 318

Location: U of C down town campus

906 – 8th Avenue SW Calgary AB

MEETING TOPICS:

The Open Community Minded River Wave Design Project

Speaker: Jacob Quinlan – Alberta River Surfing Association

Jacob agreed to give a talk about their plans to drop river wave generating hardware with a permitted construction time of September 3-15 in the Kananaskis this year.

Jacob told me their mission is: “build the world’s best river surfing wave, freely share the design and construction know-how to make it as easy as possible for surfing to occur in a river near you”

Surf Anywhere is looking to computer modeling  (CFD) to accelerate the way towards reaching these goals. Jacob is already stoked about our clubs interest and looking forward to meeting everyone at the meeting.

Surf Anywhere

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) such as code_saturne

http://surfanywhere.riversurfing.ca/

Kali Linux 1.0.4

liveboot/install image: kali-linux-1.0.4-amd64.iso and USB stick

We expect someone to step forward who has at least successfully tried out Kali before

Crunchbang Linux – A popular distro!

Based on Debian Wheezy and extra install scripts. Bring Install media (USB stick)

  • other modern installs and how easy is the final setup?
  • distributions, their relevance and popularity?
  • please list more topics in CLUG Talk and I will add them, or upon request I can modify the list
  • If anyone wants to do an install please make sure you or someone else is bringing install media of the distro of your choice

Monthly General Meeting – August 7, 2013

Events

Meeting Wednesday

Room 318

Location: U of C down town campus

906 – 8th Avenue SW Calgary AB

MEETING TOPICS:

  • Kali Linux 1.0.3

I will be bringing a liveboot/install image: kali-linux-1.0.3-amd64.iso and USB stick

Also a LAN hub so we can try it out locally for those who wish (bring your own LAN cord if able, but I will bring extra if I remember)

  • Install experiences with new hardware?  ie Vivaldi tablet
  • You must have more topics, but it seems you are holding out on us (as in not talked about yet) Feel free to step up.

 

Monthly General Meeting – July 3, 2013

Events

Meeting Wednesday

I will show up, because some showed interest in attending the meeting

(doors open at 6:00 PM, meeting: 6:05 PM – 8:00 PM)

Room 318

Location: U of C down town campus

906 – 8th Avenue SW Calgary AB

MEETING TOPICS:

  • More on the latest modern distributions plus GNU Free and Open Source Software
  • Hopefully success and other stories
  • Debian “wheezy” Release Information: Debian 7.1 was released June 15th, 2013.

It should be soon apparent all the great system setups that can be done for your friends and clients! But speak up if you disagree.  (post on the list – clug-talk)

  • Compare notes about how you express your digital presence, or if new better tools are available