May 112012
 

Last night we had out May meeting and had 10 people in attendance. It was a good turn-out as we return to the normal second Thursday of the month meetings: We discussed the following topics:

  • Presentation Topics Discussion –We had a thoughtful conversation designed to help define  future presentation subject matter the members would like to see.
  • Kickstart Your Future – Sam led a discussion on the use of crowdsourcing as a way of financing technical projects. He discussed the two contemporary sites, Kickstarter and IndieGoGo, as viable means to use when crowdsourcing. We also saw several projects such as the Pebble Watch  or the Printrbot which have done extraordinarily well using this technique.
  • Ubuntu 12.04  – the group  began looking at several different features of both the Unity and Gnome-Shell desktop environments that accompany the new 12.04 release of Ubuntu. We had a strange problem getting Unity to work properly with a projector. Part of the Unity information used Unity-2D for discussion. We were also running out of meeting time when this problem occurred so we had to cut some parts of this short..
  • Linux News – We had a discussion on recent Linux related news items such as the Apache Foundation release of OpenOffice 3.4, Rickard Stallman’s collapse at a conference in Barcelona, and New Hampshire’s bill HB418 which mandates the use of open Source and open file formats.
  • General Discussion – we had a general group discussion around the sad reality  that the Xinerama functionality in Xorg is becoming deprecated. Also had a very brief discussion on the use of Virtualbox for desktop virtualization.

We had a decent time and lots of discussion in spite of some of the challenges of the evening. Hope to see you all at the June meeting on 06/14.

Reference Notes:

During the course of the meeting Sam  discussed a few useful books when studying C programming. I’ve referenced these  books below:

 Posted by at 6:26 pm
May 102012
 

Just a reminder to everyone that we will have our May Lug meeting at 6:30pm on Thursday, May 10th. Currently, the agenda is as follows:

  • Presentation Topics Discussion – Sam Williams
  • Kickstart Your Future – Sam Williams
  • Ubuntu 12.04  – Sam Williams
  • Linux News – Sam Williams

Hope to you all can come out and catch up.

 Posted by at 2:16 pm