November RRLug Meeting Minutes 11/08/12

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Dec 102012
 

The November  RRLug meeting went really well. We had 12 people attending! We met at 6:30pm  at Rasmussen College (rm 403).  Tonight there were two presentations:

  • TEDxRockford – Sam Williams was invited to attend the first, hopefully annual TEDxRockford conference as a representative of RRLug. He came away with many cool ideas and shared these  experiences and thoughts  for future Rockford growth ideas. Many of the members hadn’t realized the event was even taking applications so they were happy to hear this presentation.
  • Using and Configuring SSH (pt 1) – Sam Williams is going to look at several things that make ssh particularly ideal for secure communication. Tonight we will look at configuring both the client and server side of an awesome and very useful set of commands.

We had some great and lively discussion. Everyone had a really great time.

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October RRLug Meeting Minutes 10/11/12

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Nov 072012
 

The October meeting went really well. We had 11 people attending! We had lots of good general purpose questions being asked. Tonight we had two presentations:

  • SQLite (https://sqlite.org/) – Gary Melvin  has been busy interfacing  his Arduinos to  all kinds of temperature sensors like  the LM34. Gary  gave a great presentation on how he uses SQLite to store his measured data-points and then demonstrated exactly how easy it is to use simple SQL instructions to start using the acquired date for making intelligent decisions. Thanks Gary….
  • Raspberry Pi – Sam Williams discussed the Raspberry Pi and Linux. Sam demonstrated  two different versions of Linux for the Raspberry Pi. He showed us how easy it is to get a media center up and running with the RaspBMC (http://www.raspbmc.com/) version of Linux. Also gave some ideas on how to tune these devices for performance. Sam  then demonstrated how easy it is to set up a general purpose system using the Raspbian distribution(http://www.raspbian.org/) .

There were lots of cool things demonstrated this evening. Everyone had a really great time.

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