The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:
Monday
March 20, 2017
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presentation:
"Kodi media player (formerly XBMC: Xbox Media Center)"
Presented by:
Ronile Lambert
Description:
Kodi (formerly known as "XBMC", or "Xbox Media Center") is an
award-winning open source media center for playing videos, music,
pictures, games, and more. Licensed as free software, under the GNU
General Public License (GPL), it runs on Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS,
and Android.
Kodi features a "10-foot user interface" (that is, a UI suitable for
televisions, where the user is 10' away from the screen, and using a
hand-held remote control), and can play digital content from local and
network storage, as well as streamed from the Internet. It supports live
TV, and can act as a Personal Video Recorder (PVR). It supports 'skins',
allowing the entire UI to be customized, and 'add-ons' to give Kodi
additional functionality (e.g., controlling the lights in your house).
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support lets Kodi instances stream to
each other, and other devices. Along with real remote controls, and
iOS and Android remote apps for phones and tablets, Kodi can also be
controlled programmatically, via a web interface!
Kodi began as XBMC, the Xbox Media Center, for the original Microsoft
Xbox game console, but has since been ported to a variety of platforms,
and in 2014 the software was renamed to Kodi. A stand-alone Linux
distribution "Kodibuntu" (based on Ubuntu) is available, and a number
of commercially sold stand-alone devices running XBMC & Kodi have
been made.
This meeting will be held at:
Yolo County Public Library, Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch
Blanchard Community Meeting Room
315 E 14th Street
Davis, CA 95616
For more details on this meeting, visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/
For maps, directions, public transportation schedules, etc., visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/library/
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About LUGOD:
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The Linux Users' Group of Davis is a 501(c)7 non-profit organization
dedicated to the Linux computer operating system and other Open Source
and Free Software.
Since 1999, LUGOD has held regular meetings with guest speakers
in Davis, California, as well as other events in Davis and the greater
Sacramento region. Events are always free and open to the public.
You can 'like' LUGOD on Facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/LinuxUsersGroupOfDavis
join the LUGOD group on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lugod/
and find us on LinkedIn at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=35879
Please visit our website for more details: http://www.lugod.org/
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Bill Kendrick
pr(a)lugod.org
Public Relations Officer
Linux Users' Group of Davis
http://www.lugod.org/
(Your address: balug-talk-balug.org(a)lists.balug.org )
Greetings!
OLPC San Francisco will be hosting our monthly meeting Saturday, March
11th, from 10:30AM - 1PM at the downtown SFSU campus, 835 Market
Street, 6th floor, room 609.
Please RSVP:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/olpc-sf-march-meeting-ethiopia-tickets-8350942…
This month, the **new** OLPC XO-NL3 Laptop is going to Ethiopia. Come
and see the new device at work. We'll have a discussion with the
project lead Andreas Gros of Facebook and OLPC expert Sameer Verma of
SFSU (that's me!). Discussion will be moderated by Alex Kleider.
We will have Ethiopian coffee and light snacks.
Agenda
- Meet and greet
- Ethiopia and the new OLPC XO-NL3 Laptop
- Project updates
- Project working time
Our meetings are held on the second Saturday of every month. Everyone
is welcome to join us for our monthly meeting! We'll be discussing the
latest in OLPC events and give updates on our local (and global)
projects. There will be plenty of XO laptops with the latest builds to
play around with, too.
cheers,
Sameer
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Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Professor, Information Systems
San Francisco State University
http://verma.sfsu.edu/