REMINDER: TODAY!: BALUG: Tu 2014-11-18: Michael Paoli on Rockbox @ Henry's Hunan - 110 Natoma St.
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items, details further below: BALUG meeting 2014-11-18: Michael Paoli on Rockbox @ Henry's Hunan - 110 Natoma St. giveaways (CDs/DVDs, ...) Got venue? (projector/screen ...) Last meeting this year, & 2015 meeting dates volunteering to help BALUG (and add to your experience & resume!) Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
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For our 2014-11-18 BALUG meeting:
We have a (mini-)presentation/demo from Michael Paoli on Rockbox[1][2]. Rockbox is free Open Source replacement firmware and software for many digital audio players. Rockbox offers many enhanced and additional capabilities not available on the firmware/software provided by these digital audio players. Michael will be providing demonstrations on a SanDisk Sansa Fuze[3] v2. A partial listing of just some of what Rockbox additionaly makes available on this device: audio channel configuration, many additional modes/settings: Karaoke, Stereo Width, Crossfeed EQ - 10 band, peak and high and low shelf filters, save/load presets dithering, timestretch, compressor sleep timer, alarmclock recording - 9 frequency settings, 4 file formats, file splitting by size/time, sound activation, gain & monitor volumes 124 themes, 98 fonts audio/recording metering 36 Games: frozen-bubble, chess, Mastermind, Doom, Go, maze, Pong, sliding puzzle, solitaire, sudoku, ... 21 apps: calculator, calendar, clock, md5sum, metronome, pitch detector, resistor, paint, stopwatch ... demos: oscilloscope, life, vu_meter text viewer, editor, (loadable UTF-8) virtual keyboard, Morse code input mode voice - talking audio menus music database - many additional views and can be customized dual boot, limit USB access, connect to USB & continue playing
Note also that this is our last meeting this year (see also further below).
1. http://www.rockbox.org/ 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockbox 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansa_Fuze
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp@balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help BALUG and our venue plan for the meeting and accommodations, so please let us know.
6:30pm Tuesday, November 18th, 2014 2014-11-18 Henry's Hunan Restaurant 110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery) San Francisco, CA 94105-3704 1-415-546-4999 http://www.henryshunanrestaurant.com/ Easy Transit/Parking Access: short walk from BART, MUNI, parking Trip planning: http://www.511.org/
Delicious Hunan cuisine and reasonably priced.
Meeting Details...
Cost/Dining: The meetings are always free, but dinner is not (unless you are our guest speaker, in which case we also treat you to dinner). For Henry's Hunan Restaurant, if folks are agreeable, we'll share and dine "family" style, and split up the costs, and typical cost per person including tax and tip (but not including beverages beyond complementary tea) would be in the $13.00 to $17.50 range, and commonly around $15.00 to $16.50. Cash may be preferred to ease splitting up the check. One can also specifically order the dish(es) one needs/prefers (e.g. for dietary considerations) - and we also commonly order some dish(es) that may meet various dietary considerations) (e.g. vegetarian, non-pork, ...). Please arrive by 7:00 P.M., we expect to order entrees at that time, and may order appetizer(s) and/or soup(s) anytime after 6:30 P.M.
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We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll likely have at least the below plus additional items.
CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a peek here: http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash, etc. Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof, also appreciated. See the above URL for details (and the inventory (qty.) of what we specifically have "burned" and available on-hand does also frequently change).
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Last meeting this year, & 2015 meeting dates
2014-11-18 is our last meeting for 2014 (we'll skip December, as we typically do). For 2015, please note our meeting dates (almost always 3rd Tuesday): 2014-11-18 2014-12-16 2015-01-20 2015-02-17 2015-03-17 2015-04-21 2015-05-19 2015-06-16 2015-07-21 2015-08-18 2015-09-15 2015-10-20 2015-11-17 ... Be sure to check http://www.balug.org/ and/or watch our announcements for updates, location and details, etc.
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Got venue?
We can use your help on leads (and follow-up) for venue! Certainly feel free to discus on our "talk[1]" list. See also the earlier item[2] on our admin list that gives fair overview of what we're hopefully looking to find as for venue. We could certainly use a venue that works well for speakers/presenters (e.g. projector & screen), can handle fair sized crowds (to 30 or more, ideally to over 100 as we sometimes have), is reasonably economical and consistent across varying attendance sizes (e.g. same location or very close in part of same facility), and where dinner/food/beverages are either available at such a presentation facility, or very close by. IF YOU HAVE LEADS ON SPECIFIC VENUE(s) BE SURE TO DROP US A NOTE!: balug-contact@balug.org - and can of course also mention/discuss it on our "talk[1]" list. And much thanks for leads/contacts, useful ideas, follow-up on that, etc. that will get us to our future venue(s)!
Henry's Hunan Restaurant - 110 Natoma St. can handle us well in most regards for dining and up to fair size crowd, but we have no screen/projector nor PA capabilities there, so for talks/presentations, only the less formal, smaller, and without projected "slides" would work there. (But in the meantime, the food there is really yummy!)
We also expect to announce any and all venue changes reasonably well in advance (week(s) to month or more), so folks have reasonable time to prepare/adjust and aren't (too) "surprised" and so folks don't have last minute changes sprung on them.
1. http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org 2. http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2014-July/001504.html
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volunteering to help BALUG (and add to your resume/experience)
Not only can you do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG, but it can also be a way to gain useful and practical experience, and could also be something to add to or round out one's resume.
There a quite a variety of opportunities to help BALUG. Come talk to us at a meeting and/or drop us a note at: balug-contact@balug.org These opportunities may include, among other possibilities: o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc. o assist on publicity o chief/assistant cat herder o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators). o webmaster, assistant webmaster, designer, graphic artist o archivist/history/retrieval/etc. o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or would be good to do (feel free to suggest ideas!)
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Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
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Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or things we should do differently): publicity-feedback@balug.org
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