Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group

Serving the Linux community in the Ottawa area for 13 years.

Upcoming Meetings and Events

OCLUG meets on the first Thursday of every month at 7pm

September Meeting: The R statistical language

Date: September 7, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Location: University of Ottawa, room DMS 7170, 55 Laurier East

NOTE: TUESDAY SEPT 7.

The R statistical language is one of the most successful open source projects. It runs on all major operating systems and supports nearly 2500 add-in packages that are actively tested and purged if not functioning. Great graphics, automated publication quality reports that are updateable with new data, and a huge array of strong mathematical tools built around a high-level object oriented programming language. See www.r-project.org.

We are inviting the Ottawa Gatineau R User Group to share this meeting with us.

Please watch for the time and place to solidify.

An intro to R

Speaker: John C. Nash
Speaker: various

Why should you be interested in R?

Even if you are not doing statistics, R provides some useful tools for quick data management and manipulation. It has very nice graphics for quantitative material. And a nifty object oriented programming language that is extremely high level. The package management structure is perhaps the most advanced of any major software system in that the nearly 2500 packages undergo almost daily testing and failed packages are removed from the repository.

Gnews & Tips

Speaker: various

Whats in the news about current issues concerning gnu/linux

UseR! 2010

Speaker: Paul Gilbert

Almost 500 workers attended the UseR! 2010 meeting in Washington in July.

This overview will summarize some of the notable contributions.

Past Meetings

August Meeting: GNews and GIMP

Date: August 5, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Location: Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room T117

GNews and Tips

Speaker: various

Do you know of any news that affects the FLOSS community? Discussion of current issues, tips and "gotchas." Grep and extensions, HST and GNUmeric, expansion of open source, and copyright law will be a few of the topics, and contributions from the audience of any other GNews items are welcome.

GIMP

Speaker: Gary Jones

What is GIMP, and what can it do? Talk will begin with some GIMP basics, the power of GIMP, photo correction, demonstration of tools, and some advanced functionality.

45 minutes talk, 15 minutes Q&A

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