August RRLug Meeting Agenda: 08/08/13

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Aug 082013
 

Just a reminder to everyone that we will have our June  LUG meeting  at 6:30pm on Thursday, August 8th. Don’t forget that we are now meeting in the Board Room. Directions: Take the elevator to the third floor then turn right and walk straight into the room. Please try to avoid food or drink in the new room.

  • Ubuntu PPA System – Sam Williams is going to discuss the Ubuntu PPA system and some of the things you can expect from using it.
  • FinalTerm – Sam Williams  is going to show a new terminal program that has great promise in the near future.
  • Security 101 – We are going to be watching a couple of over-view videos on the issue of data and system security. It should be entertaining and useful for everyone.
  • Current News – Towards the end of the meeting we will have a discussion on some of the more interesting Linux/FOSS news items from the past month.

Hope to see you all there!

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July RRLug Meeting Minutes: 07/11/13

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Aug 082013
 

The July RRLug meeting went really well. We had 12 people attending.  We met at the usual time of  6:30pm in the Rasmussen College Boardroom. There were a few new faces in the crowd tonight. As usual we had several different presentations tonight:

  • Python Training – Peter Hedlund completed his Python series with lecture #3 dealing with python functions and libraries. He provided some really good code examples with explanation. Peter and Sam also introduced a couple of reference sites:
  • Brief Discussion of Online Learning Resources – We added two additional resources to the list of sites that provide online programming tutorials. When you have an opportunity take a look at the following two sites:
  • ThumbDrive Mechanics Redux – Sam Williams revisited his discussion from December with a way to test USB drives prior to use without the need to reformat them first. During the presentation Sam presented a script that he wrote to perform the testing and took the opportunity to discuss bash programming mechanics and gotchas with this particular application.
  • Current News – Towards the end of the meeting Sam lead a discussion on some of the more interesting Linux/FOSS news items from the past month including the recent concerns over online privacy.

We all had a great time. Hope to see you all next month for the July meeting on: 08/08/13.

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