The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:
Monday
June 20, 2016
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presentation:
Inkscape
presented by Michel Tobias
A general introduction to the Inkscape vector graphics editor, and
how it can be used for both graphic design work, as well as modifying
existing images, using cartography as an example (modifying the data
output from a Geographic Information System (GIS)).
About Inkscape:
Inkscape is a free and open source professional vector graphics editor
for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It can be used to create or edit
vector graphics -- the use of polygons to represent images (as opposed
to raster graphics, a dot matrix representing a rectangular grid of
pixels, or points of color) -- such as illustrations, diagrams, line
arts, charts, logos and complex paintings. Inkscape's primary vector
graphics format is Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), a widely-deployed
royalty-free graphics format developed and maintained by the W3C SVG
Working Group. It is a markup language for describing two-dimensional
graphics.
About the Speaker:
Michele Tobias is an Environmental Scientist at the Natural Resource
Division of California State Parks, where she develops and analyzes
data, databases, and methods for natural resources and ecology of
California's State Park system. Independently, she also develops
and teaches about open source geospatial tools, builds low-altitude
aerial photography platforms (kites and remote-controlled hobby hot
air balloons, together with consumer-grade cameras), and works to
refine and automate the photo processing workflow.
Michele received a PhD in Geography from UC Davis, and was a Post
Doc at UCD's Information Center for the Environment. The goal of her
research is to understand the current distribution of California's beach
plants and how humans affect this. Data collection is a combination
of traditional phytosociological methods and innovative remote sensing.
Michele uses Inkscape as part of a workflow that produces
professional-quality maps from QGIS, an open source Geographic
Information System. She presented a talk on the topic, "Cartography with
Inkscape," at the 2016 FOSS4G-NA (Free & Open Software for Geospatial,
North America) conference earlier this year.
This meeting will be held at:
Yolo County Public Library, Mary L Stephens Davis Branch
315 East 14th Street
Blanchard Community Meeting Room
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/
--
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
May 16, 2016
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presentation:
Docker
presented by Karen Yin-Yee Ng
This talk will describe how to use Docker, a container technology
for building reproducible software environments.
About Docker:
Docker allows you to package an application with all of its dependencies
into a standardized unit for software development. Docker containers
wrap up a piece of software in a complete filesystem that contains
everything it needs to run: code, runtime, system tools, system
libraries -- anything you can install on a server. This guarantees
that it will always run the same, regardless of the environment it is
running in.
About the Speaker:
Karen Yin-Yee Ng is a Physics PhD student at UC Davis. She recently
completed an internship at the Data Analytics Services team at
the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
in Berkeley.
This meeting will be held at:
Yolo County Public Library, Mary L Stephens Davis Branch
315 East 14th Street
Children's Activity Room (SPECIAL LOCATION)
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:
------------
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 )
Reminder: tomorrow, Sunday.
----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <rick(a)linuxmafia.com> -----
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 05:48:23 -0800
From: Rick Moen <rick(a)linuxmafia.com>
To: balug-talk(a)lists.balug.org
Subject: [conspire] Smalltalk event, Sunday, April 10, 9-5, San Francisco
Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already.
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards
San Francisco to be reborn? Why, it's Smalltalk!
Event is in SoMa (Howard between 6th and 7th), it's free, and looks very
worthwhile. FYI, this will be on a Sunday. Talks run 9am-5pm.
----- Forwarded message from Chris Cunnington <brasspen(a)gmail.com> -----
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 07:31:44 -0500
From: Chris Cunnington <brasspen(a)gmail.com>
To: bofh(a)linuxmafia.com
Subject: Smalltalk event, 10 April
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2104)
Hi CABAL,
I’m organizing a Smalltalk day in San Francisco on 10 April and thought
your group might find it interesting. For more information please visit:
http://www.ooplu.com/
Thanks,
Chris Cunnington
Toronto
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The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:
Monday
April 18, 2016
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presentation:
"Configuration Management with Puppet: Present and Future"
presented by Greg Larkin, Puppet Labs
In this talk, Greg Larkin, an engineer with Puppet Labs, will discuss
some of the historical issues with system management, how Puppet
works, how it fits into current types of infrastructure deployments
and what some of its enterprise features are. The talk will touch
on high-level concepts as well as show some code and how it enforces
node configurations. The talk will also cover new Puppet developments
that were recently announced during PuppetConf 2015.
About Puppet:
Puppet is an open-source configuration management tool. It runs on
many Unix-like systems as well as on Microsoft Windows, and includes
its own declarative language to describe system configuration.
Puppet is produced by Puppet Labs. It is written in Ruby and released
as free software -- under the GNU General Public License (GPL) until
version 2.7.0, and the Apache License 2.0 after that.
About the Speaker:
Greg Larkin is a Professional Services Engineer at Puppet Labs.
He has worked as a software developer since the 1980s. In the mid-90s,
acting as a self-employed software development consultant, he became
involved with many teams of geographically-distributed independent
consultants, and began setting up source code control repositories for
these teams. Out of this, SourceHosting.net, the first Internet-based
hosted source code repository service, was born.
After discovering Puppet in 2012, Greg launched Devopsify IT!, a
consulting business focused on assisting and mentoring clients with
their first steps towards a more automated and reliable deployment
architecture.
About Puppet Labs:
Founded by Luke Kanies in 2005, Puppet Labs is the leader in IT
automation. Their software helps sysadmins automate configuration
and management of machines and the software running on them.
With their software, businesses can make rapid, repeatable changes
and automatically enforce the consistency of systems and devices,
across physical and virtual machines, on-premises or in the cloud.
Tens of thousands of the world's leading companies (including Bank
of America, Cisco, the New York Stock Exchange, and salesforce.com)
use Puppet to manage millions of machines and devices.
Based in Portland, Oregon, Puppet Labs employs more than 400 people.
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/upcoming/
For maps, directions, public transportation schedules, etc., visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/explorit/
Flyer:
If you'd like to print and post flyers to help advertise this
event, you can download a PDF from:
http://lugod.org/documents/flyers/
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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 )
Hi guys, I noticed this agenda item for today's SF Board of
Supervisors meeting. Seems like they've been asked to kick down an
additional 10 million bucks, on top of the 5 million already paid, for
more Oracle licenses. Is anyone in the know about this, or planning to
attend the meeting?
Link: http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=2314
PDF: http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=19011
Text:
13. 160097
[Software License and Support Agreement Amendment - Oracle America, Inc.
- Emerge Project - Maximum Expenditure of $14,287,737]
Resolution authorizing the Controller to enter into the Tenth
Amendment of a software
license and support agreement with Oracle America, Inc., for perpetual software
licenses and software support services for the Controller’s Emerge
Project, extending
the contract term of November 16, 2007, through April 22, 2016, by
five years through
April 22, 2021, and increasing the maximum expenditure by $4,300,892
to $14,287,737.
The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:
Monday
March 21, 2016
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presentation:
Adrian, a Linux-based 'FIRST Robotics Competition' Robot
presented by Wesley Aptekar-Cassels, Citrus Circuits (FRC Team 1678)
Hear about how the open source Linux operating system is used by
Citrus Circuits (FIRST robotics team 1678), both on and off the
robot. This talk will cover the both embedded Linux system that runs
the robot and the software that we write to control it, as well as
explaining the FIRST Robotics Competition in general.
Our guest speaker should be able to bring "Adrian", their latest
robot, to this meeting for a demo!
About the Citrus Circuits:
Citrus Circuits, Team 1678, <http://www.citruscircuits.org/> is a
FIRST Robotics Competition team <http://www.firstinspires.org/> founded
in 2004 at Da Vinci Charter Academy in Davis, and which has since
expanded to included students from Davis Senior High School, and
Holmes, Emerson, and Harper Junior High Schools. In 2015 they took
home the top prize at the FIRST Robotics world championships.
<http://www.davisenterprise.com/local-news/davis-team-wins-world-robotics-ch…>
Source code for the team's robots is available on GitHub
<https://github.com/frc1678>, and more info about the team can be
found on their Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/frc1678/>
and at their YouTube account <https://www.youtube.com/user/citruscircuits>.
This meeting will be held at:
Yolo County Public Library, Mary L Stephens Davis Branch
Blanchard 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 )
Books[1], etc. for ...
I've got 5 new titles I received 2016-03-03 (only qty. 1 or 2 of each)
plus only two remaining titles I received earlier (and only qty. 1 of
each of those remain).
If you are or may be interested, see: [1]
This upcoming week I'll be attending:
Berkeley Linux Users Group (BerkeleyLUG) [2]
Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) [3]
Berkeley Unix User Group (BUUG) [4]
I'm not planning to schelp all 6 physical titles
with me to each of these 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 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.
If you don't manage to catch me at one of the shortly upcoming meetings
mentioned above, there are will remain some additional future
opportunities to potentially get such a title for yourself from me at
some other future meeting - see [1] (and that wiki page is generally
update to reflect what remaining titles I still have copy(/ies) of).
footnotes/references/excerpts:
1. https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications
2. http://www.berkeleylug.com/
3. http://www.balug.org/
4. http://www.buug.org/
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards
San Francisco to be reborn? Why, it's Smalltalk!
Event is in SoMa (Howard between 6th and 7th), it's free, and looks very
worthwhile. FYI, this will be on a Sunday. Talks run 9am-5pm.
----- Forwarded message from Chris Cunnington <brasspen(a)gmail.com> -----
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 07:31:44 -0500
From: Chris Cunnington <brasspen(a)gmail.com>
To: bofh(a)linuxmafia.com
Subject: Smalltalk event, 10 April
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2104)
Hi CABAL,
I’m organizing a Smalltalk day in San Francisco on 10 April and thought
your group might find it interesting. For more information please visit:
http://www.ooplu.com/
Thanks,
Chris Cunnington
Toronto
----- End forwarded message -----