Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group
Upcoming Meetings and Events
June Meeting: Programming devices, hands on
Date: June 7, 2012 at
7 p.m.
Location: Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room T117
Room change! - theatre at west end of building T
Using Yocto
Speaker: Robert P. J. DayRob Woolley and Rob Day will present a talk on Using Yocto for programming ARM devices.
This will be a hands-on demo.
There will be some opportunities to copy what they are doing and try it.
Look on the list, closer to the date, on what to do before the meeting if you want to participate. Installing and building all the packages required takes a lot of time and a lot of disk space.
Raspberry Pi
Speaker: Clayton SmithLightning talk!
Clayton Smith will tell us about his new Raspberry Pi, the cutest little Linux device since the OLPC! It has HDMI output. Due to VGA on the overhead projector, you may have to crowd around after to see what is on the screen.
Lightning talks are about 5 to 15 minutes short and are usually presented before the main speaker.
May Meeting: Wordpress for professionals, Gerbi-CMS
Date: May 3, 2012 at
7 p.m.
Location: Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room T117
Room change! - theatre at west end of building T
Wordpress for professionals
Speaker: Darcy WhyteDarcy Whyte will present a Wordpress seminar.
The focus is on preparing a site for a professional or a business, quickly, easily, and with the main bells and whistles.
Gerbi - a CMS for Developers Lightning Talk
Speaker: Ian WardGerbi-CMS (nee django-page-cms) is a multilingual content management system written in Python and based on the Django web framework. This talk will cover some of the features of the CMS and short discussion about how it operates.
Ian Ward recently added JSON export and import to Gerbi-CMS and uses it for a number of web sites he maintains.
Announcements
Promote Linux in Ottawa
Do you have an idea about how to promote Linux and Open Source Software in Ottawa? OCLUG may be able to help with up to $500 towards your expenses.
