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

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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 [1]

• OwnCloud [2] – written in the PHP and JavaSript scripting languages [3]

• Linux RAID storage

•  Commercial and non-commercial coexistence in Linux and FOSS

Gaps and Bridges ?

[1] Shawn

[2] Anand

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OwnCloud

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

Monthly General Meeting – April 3rd, 2013

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

Place: University of Calgary, downtown Campus – 906 – 8th Ave SW

Room: TBA or e sign-age by entrance

• Come and share your projects, current tech developments
• dare to aspire

See you at the meeting

General CLUG monthly meetings are free, but donations are welcomed. Tier 1 membership allows you voting power, and is only $20 a year!

Monthly General Meeting – March 6th, 2013

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

Location: University of Calgary, downtown campus
Room 449
906 – 8th Avenue SW

MEETING TOPICS ?

INSTALL FEST and related topics

• The theme has been building to an interesting install fest:

I will bring some usb sticks from Debian Live Boot Images

• Also customized live boot/installs were brought up, so the idea was to include all packages and configuration needed to have it work “out of the box” (usb stick or DVD) to fit getting some jobs done

• Interests and needs? Examples of some help questions and answers in clug-talk list?

OTHERS

1. Getting printer up and running in Linux

Do we all know what we are bringing?

Bring your questions to the meeting for the general discussion! Also feel free to ask them on the glug.talk list

See you at the meeting.

Everyone welcome!

General CLUG monthly meetings are free, but donations are welcomed. Tier 1 membership allows you voting power, and is only $20 a year!

Monthly General Meeting – February 6th, 2012
(doors open at 6:00 PM, meeting: 6:05 PM – 8:00 PM)

Location: University of Calgary, downtown campus
Room (TBA – check the ground level’s digital signage)
906 – 8th Avenue SW

Call for talks and demos from members and non-members
Email president@clug.ca OR join the clug-talk mailing list and let us know

Everyone welcome!

General CLUG monthly meetings are free, but donations are welcomed. Tier 1 membership allows you voting power, and is only $20 a year!