The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:
Monday
May 15, 2017
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presentation:
"DockerCon17 Recap and Highlights"
Presented by:
Stephen Matthew Helms
Description:
Docker is an open-source project that automates the deployment of
applications inside software containers -- a server virtualization
method in which the kernel of an operating system allows the existence
of multiple isolated user-space instances, instead of just one.
DockerCon, held recently in Austin, Texas, is a "community and container
industry conference for makers and operators of next generation
distributed apps built with containers ... with talks by practitioners,
hands-on labs, an expo hall of Docker ecosystem innovators."
This presentation will highlight some of the Linux- and
open-source-related topics found at DockerCon 2017.
Stephen will also briefly discuss the Docker Community, Mentoring
and Higher Ed and Embassador program, and if time permits, audience
participation in some demos.
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/upcoming/
For maps, directions, public transportation schedules, etc., visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/library/
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About LUGOD:
------------
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/
--
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 )
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/
------------
About LUGOD:
------------
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/
--
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/
Hello Bay Area LUG members -
I'm a Master's of Management Information Systems student at the University
of Arizona. I am conducting a survey as part of my Master's research
project, which focuses on understanding similarities and differences
between various groups of technology/cyber enthusiasts. I'm hoping that a
few of you out there would be willing to participate.
The survey is anonymous (also, no PII or IPs collected) and it should only
take you 10-15 minutes to complete. The questions ask about your behavior
and personality. More information is provided once you follow the survey
link.
https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bPGRlluwMNQ4a1f
If you have any questions, I can be reached at airley(a)email.arizona.edu. I
sincerely appreciate your time!
-Ashley
The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:
Monday
February 20, 2017
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presentation:
"AlphaGo -- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning"
Presented by:
Eric Rasmussen
Description:
In March 2016, the computer program AlphaGo cracked the game of Go,
an ancient strategy board game with ~2.082 * 10^170 legal positions
(imagine a 2 followed by 170 zeroes). The complexity of Go has made it
the subject of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research for decades, but
until last year computer Go programs were no match for human intuition.
This talk will give a gentle introduction to the machine learning
techniques that made the breakthrough possible, along with links and
resources to open source machine learning libraries.
About the Speaker:
Eric Rasmussen is an avid Go player, functional programming evangelist,
and Lead Software Developer at newcars.com.
This meeting will be held at:
Explorit
3141 5th 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/explorit/
------------
About LUGOD:
------------
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/
--
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 )
The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:
Monday
January 16, 2017
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presentation:
"Taming a dinosaur with Docker and JavaScript"
Presented by:
Dennis Stevense, Lead Software Engineer, Digital Deployment
Description:
Open source software can be used in various ways, and 'old' and 'new'
can be used together. This talk will discuss maintaining a Drupal
6-based codebase -- long after the releases of Drupal 7 (2011) and
Drupal 8 (2015), and the recent 'end-of-life' of Drupal 6 (early 2016)
-- with the help of Docker and JavaScript.
Drupal is an open source content-management framework, written in
PHP, and used for things ranging from blogs to corporate, political,
and government websites; it's also used for 'knowledge management'
and business collaboration. Interest in Drupal was boosted when it
was used by the Howard Dean campaign during the 2004 presidential
election. Today, there are over 35,000 free add-on modules, and
over 2,000 free themes, available for Drupal. [Wikipedia] There's an
active Drupal User Group in Sacramento, which also helps put together
a Sacramento "DrupalCamp", one of many global Drupal conferences.
Docker is a 'containerization' platform, allowing you to wrap a piece
of software in a complete filesystem that contains everything needed
to run code; guaranteeing the software will always run the same,
regardless of its environment.
About the Speaker:
Dennis Stevense is Lead Software Engineer at Digital Deployment,
responsible for managing the development team, and planning ongoing
development of their platform.
About Streamline and Digital Deployment:
Digital Deployment, Inc. is a Sacramento-based web development
company specializing in content management systems where ease-of-use
and scalability are required. Their clients include UC Davis,
United Way, CalSTRS (Calif. State Teachers' Retirement System), and
others. Streamline, a division of Digital Deployment, creates tools
that help local governments stay compliant with Internet requirements,
such as California's Senate Bill 272 (SB-272), the California Public
Records Act.
Anniversary:
This meeting marks our 18th anniversary! Join us in celebration with
free pizza and snacks. Special location: Smashwords, Inc., downtown
Davis.
This meeting will be held at:
Smashwords, Inc. Engineering Office
231 G Street, Suite 28
Davis, CA 95616
(Note: Upstairs; stairs-only access!)
For more details on this meeting, visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/upcoming/#2017.01.16
For maps, directions, public transportation schedules, etc., visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/smashwords/on.php
------------
About LUGOD:
------------
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/
--
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 )
The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:
Monday
December 19, 2016
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presentation:
"Hacker Lab"
Presented by:
Nile Mittow, Lead Innovation Engineer, Hacker Lab
Description:
Hacker Lab is an organization that fosters technology by offering
community-driven mentoring and education. With locations in Sacramento
and Rocklin, they provide a 'Maker Space' with tools and prototyping
equipment, education and training classes and bootcamps, 24/7 co-working
space with both shared and private offices, and community mentorship
for startups, designers, and students.
Nile will present an overview of Hacker Lab, show examples of some cool
projects created at the Lab, and discuss Linux and open source as it
relates to the Maker Movement.
About the Speaker:
Nile Mittow is Lead Innovation Engineer at Hacker Lab. He has taught
various classes, ranging from Internet of Things (IoT), to woodshop,
to lasercutting. He has a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from
UC Davis.
This meeting will be held at:
Yolo County Public Library, Mary L Stephens Davis Branch
Blanchard Meeting Room
315 East 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/
------------
About LUGOD:
------------
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/
--
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 )
Hello,
in May 2015 Berlin's Linux user group (BeLUG) has started a new type of event
which has spread quickly all over Europe: the Linux Presentation Day (LPD)
2015.1: Berlin only
2016.1 & 2016.2: 120+ cities in 15 countries
2017.1: first locations outside Europe (Canada, New Zealand, probably more)
I contact you because we intend to expand the LPD beyond Europe next year.
The aim of the LPD towards the general public is to provide biannual and
comprehensive information events about Linux for private users who would like
to get a first impression of Linux.
The aim towards the media is to make the event so big (both nationally and
internationally) that the nationwide non-IT media cover it regularly.
The aim towards the Linux community is that an LPD event can be so small and
easy to organize (even without costs) that really everyone can try to organize
an event with good chances of success. The local organizers decide on their
own what their event shall be like; we just make suggestions and offer
support.
You can find a longer description of the concept here:
http://www.linux-presentation-day.org/idea/
Are you as an organization interested in participating in the LPD? If not: Are
any of your members interested in helping us bring the LPD to the US?
This event is very useful for finding new LUG members.
Best regards,
(Mr.) Hauke Laging
--
http://www.linux-presentation-day.org/
International phone contact for the Linux Presentation Day:
tel:+49-30-55579620 (13:00–23:00, German and English)
XMPP (Chat with OTR): linux-presentation-day(a)jabber.ccc.de
OTR: 91626899 1C06F2BD 75EC2441 35C696CE 38F75997
Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu) wrote at [1]:
~~~~~~~~~~~~ quoting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I've got multiple titles (including several recently received) to give
away to user groups. I'll do my more-or-less usual one title per each
user group I typically go to - at least until each user group has had at
least one opportunity to get a title.
I may not schlep all physical titles to all meetings, so depending what
relevant responses I see in email on the applicable user group list(s)
(and emailing me and not to any relevant list doesn't count) before I
head out the door from home directly or indirectly (e.g. via work) to
those meetings, or if I see nothing relevant by then on list for group
I'll be heading to, I'll randomly select ... anyway, based upon
whichever, I'll typically bring at least two physical titles with me
and up to a max of perhaps as many as 4, to each of those meetings.
"Must be present to win" - I'm not going to hold books for people that
don't make it to meetings - especially while denying said book(s) to
those that do make it to meetings - so don't ask. So, if you want to
get hold of one of these titles, from me, you need to actually make it
to a meeting.
Details, more information, etc., see:[2]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Am wondering HOW MANY copies are still available of each of
the titles listed there[2] ??
E.g., only ONE copy of all book titles (n=1), title(s) of
ONE copy available + title(s) of TWO or more copies available
(n=1 + n=2 ...), even multiple copies of ALL titles ??
Am particularly interested in Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, 2nd Edition,
but I see from [3] that someone is already keenly interested in this
title for the Thursday 2016-12-01 mtg of that group.
Any chance that a SECOND copy of this very title is available for
another "user group [you] typically go to", e.g., BALUG ??
Doesn't hurt to ask...
TY,
-A
Refs:
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[1]http://buug.org/pipermail/buug/2016-November/004163.html
[2]https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications
[3]http://buug.org/pipermail/buug/2016-November/004164.html
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The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:
Monday
November 21, 2016
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presentation:
"Snapper"
Presented by:
Will Marshall
Description:
Snapper (http://www.snapper.io/) is a tool for Linux filesystem snapshot
management. Apart from the obvious creation and deletion of snapshots,
it can compare snapshots and revert differences between snapshots. In
simple terms, this allows root and non-root users to view older versions
of files and revert changes.
The demo will be focused on the command-line, though the graphical
tool "snapper-gui" will also be covered. While Snapper prefers
"btrfs" filesystems, it also works on "ext4", which will also be
demonstrated. Use of "cron" to time regular snapshots (a la Apple's
"Time Machine") will be discussed, as will use of Snapper to boot from,
and revert to, a previous snapshot.
This meeting will be held at:
Explorit Nature Center
3141 Fifth Street
Davis, CA 95618
For more details on this meeting, visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/upcoming/
For maps, directions, public transportation schedules, etc., visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/explorit/
------------
About LUGOD:
------------
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/
--
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 )