Recent Meeting Details

tux with camera

March Meeting: Digital Photography with Linux

Date: March 4, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Location: Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room B457

Introduction to Digital Photography with Linux

Speaker: Eric Brackenbury

This presentation and demonstration will show some basic digital photography operations and some Linux tools that can be used for them.


Intermediate Digital Photography with Linux

Speaker: Richard Guy Briggs

Some intermediate digital photography will be covered such as basic and advanced topics in the GIMP, followed by discussion and questions.



Tux using Real Time Linux for welding

February Meeting: Real time and embedded Linux

Date: February 4, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Location: Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room B457

Real-time applications have operational deadlines between some triggering event and the application's response to that event. Real time Linux runs a modified task scheduler that allows some tasks to have a garanteed response time.

Embedded Linux is part of a complete device such as a cell phone rather than a general purpose computer.

The two presentations will be followed by a show and tell of embedded-Linux gadgets and a general discussion.

Contact the mailing list if you wish to show a gadget.

Real Time RTAI Linux

Speaker: Matthew Bastian

The speaker will describe real time Linux and some applications.

  • What is realtime?
  • Realtime Linux (RTlinux and RTAI Linux)
  • Kernel space drivers vs. user space drivers
  • Creating a custom realtime Linux distro (uClinux, busybox, Linux from scratch)
  • Example code
  • PC104 used as distributed data nodes
  • Photos of some installations and applications

Embedded Linux

Speaker: Glenn Henshaw

Linux is powering devices ranging from car radios to cameras to coffee makers. This talk will explore why a developer would embed Linux into such devices, what trade-offs are necessary to accommodate the system, and some common implementation ideas.



January Meeting: Group51.org and ethical hacking

Date: January 7, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Location: Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room B457

NOTE: MEETINGS WILL BE ON THURSDAY in room B457 UNTIL summer

Group51.org

Speaker: Jeff Green

http://group51.org/

Jeff Green from Ottawa will be introducing a new Ottawa based ethical hacking group that aims to provide educational resources for those entering a career in IT Security or simply want to have a better personal understanding. This presentation is targetted for a beginner to intermediate audience.

Some of the focal points:

  • Introduction: What is Group51.org
  • Our Playground: Live Demo
  • Encrypted tunnels and our darknet
  • Discuss our active projects (WPA decryption, Router Cracking & More)
  • How we keep things legal.
  • Linux @ Group51
  • Opportunities and Volunteering Administrative Roles (For your Resume)

This will be followed by a discussion on ethical hacking.

Entire meeting; to allow for discussion.


Future Topics

Speaker: tbd

Possible Topics that need speakers.

  • machine security setup, encryption, GPG configuration, etc
  • security panel
  • build your own linux server and website


December Meeting: Myth TV

Date: December 3, 2009 at 7 p.m.
Location: Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room T117

NOTE: MEETING MOVED FROM TUESDAY TO THURSDAY

Myth TV

Speaker: Clayton Smith

How you can use Linux to make your own PVR (Personal Video Recorder)

Entire meeting; to allow for questions and discussion.



November Meeting: Tracking code changes in a distributed environment

Date: November 5, 2009 at 7 p.m.
Location: Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room T117

NOTE: MEETING MOVED FROM TUESDAY TO THURSDAY

GIT

Tracking code changes in a distributed environment

Speaker: Bart Trojanowski

Software is very dynamic and always changing. Developers use tools for source code management, or SCM, to track changes to their work over time. While traditionally SCM tools have been centralized (like CVS and Subversion) and relied on a single server to be the gate keeper, in the last part of this decade that has been changing.

This talk will overview the terms and concepts used by distributed SCM (dSCM) tools. While the talk is tailored towards Git, it will be useful for (new) users of Git's competitors, like Mercurial and Bazaar.

With even limited prior knowledge about revision control systems, by the end of the session attendees will be empowered to switch their projects to be tracked by a dSCM, perhaps even Git.

Anyone wishing to learn more about using the Git dSCM, is encouraged to join Bart for a follow up tutorial, yet to be announced.


Photo captioning

Speaker: John C. Nash

This 30 minute presentation will look at the issue of attaching captions to photos. Most photo software concentrates on the image, but for historical photos e.g., family history, it is important to have good captions and to keep them attached to the image, even when that file is renamed or moved. The speaker claims no particular expertise in photo software, but will talk to the problems of efficiently adding and editing captions, particularly when those with knowledge are scattered geographically.


Future Topics

Speaker: Jeff Green

We've also had people offer to give the following presentations. Details and which month they will be offered in TBD.

  • Jeff Green - (http://group51.org/) with a possible followup discussion on ethical hacking. (possibly January)

Possible Topics that need speakers.

  • machine security setup, encryption, GPG configuration, etc
  • security panel
  • build your own linux server and website


Past Meetings

2010 March Meeting Digital Photography with Linux
2010 February Meeting Real time and embedded Linux
2010 January Meeting Group51.org and ethical hacking
2009 December Meeting Myth TV
2009 November Meeting Tracking code changes in a distributed environment
2009 October Meeting Virtualization panel
2009 Special Event Back to School With Linux
2009 September Meeting SED part 2 and Music production distros
2009 August Meeting SED stream editor
2009 LITW Linux in the Wild
2009 June Meeting Linux Distributions - Panel Discussion
2009 May Meeting New to Linux BOF summary and Regular Expressions
2009 Special Event End of School with Linux
2009 AGM Jamii OLPC, FOSSLC Summercamp, BOF Sessions
2009 March Meeting SETI and Wine
2009 February Meeting Australian Linux Conference, HDR photography
2009 January Meeting Linux and Photography
2008 December Meeting Shamir's Secret Sharing, QCad
2008 November Meeting Wordpress and etckeeper
2008 October Meeting Asterisk
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