Introduction to Digital Photography with Linux

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

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

Real Time RTAI Linux

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

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.

Group51.org

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

Possible Topics that need speakers.

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

Myth TV

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

Entire meeting; to allow for questions and discussion.

Tracking code changes in a distributed environment

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

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

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