BLUG mtg this Thursday, Dec4th,
12/04/2008 at 12:00 AM
Our next regular public BLUG mtg will be this
Thursday, Dec4th, from 7p til 9p, at BTC,
in room D5.
We will have our regular agenda with
Linux News and a Q&A session.
Carl will be presenting on some open source productivity tools,
not necessarily limited to KDE (or Linux, in some cases).
People are encouraged to talk about the applications
they use to work smarter.
BLUG Meeting Thursday Nov 6th
11/06/2008 at 12:00 AM
BLUG will have it’s next public meeting on Thursday Nov 6th, at BTC, in room D5,
from 7pm til 9pm.
We’ll have our regular Linux Q&A, Linux in the news, and presentation sessions.
Carl Symons and John Blanford will present on Vtiger CRM:
Customers are critical to the success of most organizations. A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system consists of tools for effective customer contact–marketing, sales, customer service/satisfaction, trouble reporting/ticketing, and management capabilities.
Vtiger CRM is a 100% open source and free-of-charge CRM system. It is a web-based application that runs on a LAMP stack, and has an active user and development community.
This presentation covers technical information, installation, CRM concepts, and Vtiger operation.
Remember this meeting is open to the public. So, bring a friend and also encourage those you know who are just curious to attend.
BLUG DotOrg Committee mtg at Mark’s Tomorrow
10/08/2008 at 12:00 AM
Tomorrow, Thurs, Oct 9th, from 7pm til 9pm, at Mark’s, is the regular meeting of Blug’s DotOrg Committee.
BLUG meeting Oct 2nd
10/02/2008 at 12:00 AM
All BLUG meetings will be back to “normal”
in BTC’s room D5 and KNOT in Haskell building
until further notice.
Now that I have your attention, BLUG
will be having it’s next mtg. this Thurs., Oct 2nd,
From 7pm till 9pm, in room D5 at BTC.
Adrian and John will be presenting on:
“Computing in the Amazon’s Cloud
Cloud computing is new and, and often over used term, to describe the
use of computer resources as a service delivered over the Internet. One
of the leaders in Cloud Computing is Amazon, which offers a group of
services based on Linux and Xen.
We will talk about what different people mean by the term “Cloud
Computing”, go over the services offered by Amazon, and do a practical
example of creating an Amazon EC2 virtual server and connecting it to a
virtual storage device.”
We will as usual have our regular format, Q&A, Linux News,
install help, etc.
Bill
Blug DotOrg Committee meeting tonight
09/08/2008 at 12:00 AM
Reminder; tonight, Thurs, Sept 11th, from 7pm til 9pm,
at Mark’s, is the regular meeting of Blug’s DotOrg
Committee.
Sept 4th BLUG mtg in Haskell 108a
09/04/2008 at 12:00 AM
The Thurs. September 4th BLUG meeting at BTC from 7pm til 9pm will NOT BE HELD IN D5. It instead WILL BE IN Haskell 108a.
Jakob will be doing a presentation on Drupal.
“Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual, or a community of users, to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.”
See drupal.org for details.
BLUG meeting Tonight Aug 7
08/07/2008 at 12:00 AM
Our Thursday 7pm, tonight, at BTC BLUG meeting
will Not be in room D5,
instead it will be in Haskell 108a.
As John B previously posted,
“I will be doing the presentation this Thursday on the linux LVM.”
“Introduction to the Linux Logical Volume Manager
The logical volume manager (LVM) is a disk abstraction system for Linux.
It provides greater flexibility in managing storage space than the
traditional disk and disk partition approach.
With LVM physical disks are combined into storage pools from which
virtual disk volumes can be created. These virtual volumes can be made
bigger or smaller without needing to repartition the drives. LVM also
provides the ability to take snapshots of volumes while they are in use,
so consistent point in time backups can be made.
I will talk about the basics of the LVM and show examples of adding disk
space to a file system and doing a snapshot backup.”
Bill
Get down with Groovy. A Quick intro.
07/03/2008 at 12:00 AM
Henri will present at our next regular BLUG meeting at BTC, Thursday July 3rd from 7 pm till 9 pm.
Groovy is an agile, dynamic programming language for the Java Virtual
Machine. Groovy includes features found in Python, Ruby and SmallTalk,
but has a syntax similar to the Java programming language.
Groovy features full compatibility with Java code and existing
libraries. From simple scripts to easier Swing desktop apps to full
web applications Groovy is easy to use and easy to read.
Henri will cover the basics of Groovy, a few scripting examples and, if
time permits, a simple web application using the Grails framework.
http://groovy.codehaus.org/
BLUG meeting Thursday June 5th
06/05/2008 at 12:00 AM
Thursday June 5th will be our regular
BLUG meeting at BTC, in room D5, from 7pm til 9pm.
Mark Ashworth has volunteered to present on:
Title: Exporting data as Open Office spreadsheets using Java and Python.
Mark’s Description:
“Design a template doc in Open Office and save it as odt (word processor) or ods (spreadsheet). The result is a zip file that contains content.xml along with a bunch of formatting files, definitions, images etc. You can create new documents on the fly by extracting the contents of the zip file, modifying just content.xml and writing it all back to a new file or output stream.
I’ll show examples in both Java and Python that query a database and insert content to create a new OO spreadsheet or document and compare some of the code side by side. The Java example delivers from a web server and the Python example is a command line utility but the methods are very similar once you get past the difference in language syntax.
One of my motivations for this was to learn some Python so be prepared to look at some code.”
We’ll also have our regular Q&A and Linux in the news time.
BLUG Mtg post LFNW install fest
05/01/2008 at 12:00 AM
Install fest for people who were introduced to Linux at LFNW 2008 and want to put it on their machines. Pass out completed surveys in batches to volunteers for data entry.