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.

Jan 8, 2014 – CLUG Meeting (Wednesday)

Meeting Time:  meeting: 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

December 4, 2013 CLUG Meeting (Wednesday)

Meeting Time:  meeting: 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.

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

• bitcoin was brought up by non member (with a request for help with a project)Multiple lively discussions and debates
• More discussions about new technologies and materials and 3D printer, prices

  And news:

  Curious innovator creates his own, affordable, device. (3D printer)

  http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/3-d-printer-by-sask-man-gets-record-crowdsourced-cash-1.2417416

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

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 ?

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

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

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.

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

Monthly General Meeting – May 1, 2013

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

Location: University of Calgary, downtown campus
Room TBA
906 – 8th Avenue SW

MEETING TOPICS:

• Relevance of LUG Meetings

1. I was asked this question at two meetings recently and its been brought up before.
2. My answer was yes, I think it can be!
3. Come to the meeting, find out what is important and tell us what is important.

• Multiple forms of media and technology should play some roll in our club, like video presentations. I can see many advantages: like try before you show, reach a larger audience, document for yourself, etc.

1. Improve Accuracy of Documentation for Free and Open Source Instruction Guides
2. Come up with new ways of coming together and topics that matter to you: Here is just one for instance: TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events (ref to more button) example ….

Cory Doctorow comments on advice to parents about Facebook (is it safe?)

• Kin Wong’s work project and his Linux How To (Video Documentation). Ryan Walters was the camera man

1. Kin has done a video talking about his project
2. He also plans to bring some video of screen captures to show and tell