Meeting Place: Central Library
Basement 2
Street address: 616 Macleod Trail S.E.
Calgary AB T2G 2M2
Topics:
Power Talks (5-10 min long – 15 min max. Bring out the silos of interest people have from the large Linux Universe. Voices are being heard.
Plans for exec
Server move options
We are in the larger room February 1st. Welcome to more in attendance, both men and women.
Sorry for all the delays and shorter notice. My bad. Any one with previous exec experience who wants to help short term please contact me on the list or email.
Meeting Place: Calgary Central Library
Basement 1
Street address: 616 Macleod Trail S.E.
Calgary AB T2G 2M2
Central Library
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Topics: Topics: LUG interests. For years now I have been asking you where you (clug) want to go. What you want and what you do not want. I have been listening.
Bring your own food.
Do some people consider CLUG dead? Leave it lie.
What do I mean by the club doing a restart (new life)? The club seems to have suffered a down trend that was first noticed in some meetings in 2008 where there were only a little over 80 in attendance. I remember when all seats were filled and some people were standing.
Around that same time some were moaning loudly about why did they have to change the GPLv2 in version 3. I listened to Richard Stallman’s (RMS) passionate speech about GPLv3 but could not seem to get the full reasoning behind it, that made sense to me anyway.
Pulled away with some life busyness for a while and then about a half year ago while researching about Open-source licensing I came across some law university lectures by Eben Moglen. There I found out it was Eben and Richard wrote the GPLv3 up in defense against software patents attacks to the GPLv2. Eban also stressed it was business paying most of the bills because they were being restricted (prevented) from making money by restrictions imposed on how to use that essential modern business tool, the computer.
Before you get upset and erroneously think I want GPLv3 only, I want to point out what else Eben said about making money and the collaborative system that he said needed protection similar to an ecological system. If damage is done it is difficult and takes much time to correct. The bottom line: companies who protect this open source ecology best, make far more than the others. Embarrassing that it took me at least 3 or 4 years to finally start getting it. So I am against wasting time being against certain licenses. But just measure FOSS ecology protection that makes everyone money.
Quote: Eben Moglen
“The idea that we are anti-capitalist is a stupid
idea. Free software is not anti-capitalist. Capitalism now makes a great deal of
money out of free software and it voluntarily pays us money to make, improve and lawyer for it.”
Now that I got one thing off my chest, we can get on with how I purpose to restart.CLUG.CA
Answer: I am not doing it by myself! We are going to have to come up with ways to collaborate together with networking. Our new major sponsor proposed supplying us a nice server on the super-net that we can have access to. I would like to thank Bojan and Ben for giving such a complete tour of their modern ISO compliment plant and warehouse. Their goal and results turn out to be much greener than I had imagined.
What I have meant about CLUG is that I believe in all of you… as individuals… Not the old club. Do you believe in yourself?
When you are ready I would like to get some volunteer authors to write in your spare time and publish when ready about your interests in FOSS.
I you can attend see you there. if not, at the next one?
A general meeting is scheduled on April 8, 2015 at 7:00 PM.
Talks and discussions
The May 6 AGM and elections
Topic: Exploring Better Methods of Encouraging and Promoting GNU/Linux — With Hardware Show and Tell
A hands on approach or, Will It Work In the Real World. Hint: more people centric than machine centric.
While re purposing some desktop hardware, it was fun to imagine a futuristic, or even para-metrically designed personal computer system.
Anyway, the hardware is adequate for a fluid demonstration. I would like to talk about how reapplying skills from technical service industry and problem solving over to the the realms of Free (Libre) Open Source Software can work out.
Meeting Place: 906 – 8th Ave SW Room: 428
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Parking in the Campus building is $3. Free street parking nearby is available.
The next meeting is scheduled for January 7, 2015 at the U of C Downtown Campus, room 426, at 7 p.m. As always, the meeting is open to members and non-members.
Topic: B-Tree File System — examining a next generation file system
The next meeting is scheduled for November 5, 2014 at the U of C Downtown Campus, room 330 at 7 p.m.
Update: This demo and very brief talk did not take place as planned due to not having a needed component. Sorry about that. I will have decided to postpone this presentation till later due to some business commitments.
Mel will be giving a 20 min talk that covers some updates to the ongoing quest for the modern, snazzy and increasingly easier to run and maintain Laptop and Work Station System. This will be a limited history with some speculations as to what may be next in the first quarter of 2015 update pack. It’s not an install demo
Live bare metal demo is planned at the meeting. SolydK Linux 2014-07 64bit. -More up to date system succeeded in video hardware acceleration and modern copy on write file system available including larger workstation with nVidia card. Sorry, I’m not bringing my workstation, but a lighter one instead.
Other talks are welcome. Bring your ideas and research!
Meeting is open to members and non-members. Free to all.
Our president has advised to expect meetings on for the first Wednesday of the month unless otherwise informed.
The next meeting is scheduled for October 1, 2014 at the U of C Downtown Campus, room 426, at 7 p.m. As always, the meeting is open to members and non-members. we’ll be taking a look at DigiKam for photo management/editing.
After the meeting we usually head over to Brewster’s/Beer Revolution, which is within walking distance of meeting location. Even if you can’t make it to the meeting, you’re welcome to join us for beers.
