Sat, 25-Apr-2009

Steve opened the meeting at 10:45 AM

Iassen Hristov gave a talk titled "The Wonders of S.S.H." on the versatility and various use cases for SSH.
Attached is an archive that contains the presentation in OpenOffice 2.0 and PDF format and the example shell scripts and config files

Sat, 25-Oct-2008

Steve opened the meeting at 10:45 AM

19 people attending, 3 new faces

Dan Ford presented introduction to databases.

Dan spoke of the fundamentals of relational databases, touched on normalization, data warehouses, SQL and various tools for MySQL

The presentation is attached in PDF format. The original (in OpenOffice format) is available from Dan's web site at http://sassafrassin.com/?p=484

Craig Austin is the president of this year's election committee. Please, send nominations to him.

Meeting was adjourned at 1

Sat, 23-Aug-2008

Brett opened the meeting at 10:45 AM

19 people attending, 3 new faces

Meeting was open topic. No specific agenda. There will be a board meeting after the conclusion of the regular meeting next month (27-Sep-2008)

Meeting was adjourned around 12:30 PM

Sat, 26-Jul-2008

Steve opened the meeting at 10:55 AM

20 people attending, 5 new faces

Iassen Hristov gave a talk about VoIP technologies and Asterisk.
OpenOffice 2.0 presentation is attached. Also in PDF format.

Meeting was adjourned at 1:30 PM

Sat, 26-Apr-2008

Steve opened the meeting at 10:35 AM

19 people attending, 6 new faces

Steve presented on the subject of shell scripting. Bash was the main topic.
Steve gave numerous examples of the power of bash.

Interestingly the whole presentation was written with a bash script, each
slide as a function, complete with navigation functionality, etc. Pretty
neat. The actual presentation is attached.

Meeting was adjourned at 12:00 PM

Sat, 22-Mar-2008

Steve opened the meeting at 11:05 AM

17 people attending, 3 new faces

Question of the day was: If you were to attend a class of Linux for beginners what would you teach
- general desktop use, don't start with cmd line to scare beginners
- hardware compatibility - sound (ALSA) issues
- shell scripting
Most people said they would like to see weekly frequency

Brett Birdsall showed a presentation on encryption. General concepts in asymmetric key encryption were discussed as well as how to generate keys, and how to encrypt/decrypt files.

Meeting was adjourned

Sat, 17-Nov-2007

Steve opened the meeting at 10:40 AM

18 people attending, 4 new faces

The official board elections were held as usual every November.

The nominees are:

• President: Steve Jones
• Vice President: Don Smith
• Treasurer: Sandi Jones
• Secretary: Iassen Hristov
• Program Director: Brett Birdsall

Count: 11 members voted. 11 votes for. No absentee ballots. The new board is elected as presented above.

After the voting the meeting was open for free discussion.

Meeting was adjourned at 11:50 am

Sat, 27-Oct-2007

Celeste opened the meeting at 10:30 AM

15 people attending, 3 new faces

Tony Classik presented the X3D software.
X3D is the successor to Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
Tony showed us the Xj3D software and some pretty cool simple models.

For more information please visit
http://www.web3d.org/
http://www.xj3d.org/

Meeting was adjourned at 12:00 pm

Sat, 22-Sep-2007

Steve opened the meeting at 10:30 AM

14 people attending, 2 new faces

Iassen Hristov gave a presentation about use of Linux in special applications, appliances, embedded systems, low-power applications, etc.
The presentation in OpenOffice 2.0 format (765 KB) is attached to this post.
Among the discussed devices/platforms were WRT, Cobalt Qube, Tivo, VIA Mini-ITX and Gumstix.

Attendees were also able to see the actual Motorola WR850G, MIPS Qube 2 and Media Box Mini-ITX devices.

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Steve called the meeting to order at 12:30

6 board members were present.

The only point of discussion was the appointment of an election committee.

Craig Austin volunteered and was elected as the president of the election committee.

Meeting was adjourned at 12:40