From john_re at fastmail.us Sat Aug 1 01:35:21 2009 From: john_re at fastmail.us (john_re) Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:35:21 -0700 Subject: [buug] Aug 1 & 16- Global VOIP Free SW HW Culture meeting, BerkeleyTIP, For Forwarding Message-ID: <1249115721.22280.1327807149@webmail.messagingengine.com> Interested in joining the friendly global Free SW HW & Culture communities in a global Voice meeting? You?re invited. :) You can join from your home, or better: get a local meeting together. Tip: a college WiFi cafe could be a great local meeting place. Make sure you have a VOIP headset! For all details, see the website (I?m leaving out many sublinks to make this email smaller). http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip Start by joining #berkeleytip on IRC freenode.net. We?ll help you get your VOIP connection working. :) ===== MARK YOUR CALENDARS: 1st Sat & 3rd Sunday each month. August 1 & 16. 10A - 6P Pacific US time (+7H GMT, IIRC) = 1P-9P Eastern US time = 5P - 1A GMT ? Or, come to the local meeting on the UC Berkeley campus. NOTE: SPECIAL LOCATION AUG 1: SEE BTIP WEBSITE FOR LOCATION, & RSVP TO ME OR THE BTIP LISTS. AUG 1 MEETING WILL BE 12N - 3P AT THE BTIP VOIP SERVER LOCATION ON THE UCB CAMPUS. SEE THE WEBSITE FOR ROOM LOCATION. We?ll hack on the new BTIP Asterisk VOIP server, in its presence. PLEASE RSVP TO ME (John) OR THE LIST IF YOU WANT TO MEET AT OUR USUAL LOCATION, THE FREE SPEECH CAFE, 10A-12n, 3-6PM, (otherwise i might not be there). ===== MEETING TOPICS FOR AUGUST: 1) Whatever _you_ want to work on - Email the BTIPGlobal list & let us know what your interests are. 2) Our VOIP conference server, using Asterisk. 3) Planning for year 2. ===== JOIN FOR THE START OF YEAR 2 GLOBAL MEETINGs: We had a great first year. We had local attendees from around the San Francisco Bay Area & Northern California. High School, College, Grad Students, & working & retired people attended. >From the US, people joined the meeting (IRC or VOIP) from Hawaii to Virgina, Washington to Michigan to Florida. (+ California & other states.) Globally, Sweden, Germany, England, Ireland, Iran & India (& maybe others I don?t recall right now.) :) In May Richard Stallman joined the global meeting for Q & A about free SW & HW. == YEAR 2 FOCUS: COLLEGE LOCAL MEETINGS, & AMERICAS? ANNOUNCEMENTS. Two main things I?ll focus on this year: 1) Inviting groups to join at colleges & universities - BTIP is educational. My hope: if more students learn about free SW hw & culture, some of them will then go on to become _contributors_. :) 2) I?ll try to get monthly announcements out to the biggest LUGs in the 10 largest countries in the Americas. == What would _YOU_ like to accomplish this year? Email the BTIP mail list, say ?hi?, tell us about your interests, projects & desires. ===== FOR FORWARDING - You are invited to forward this announcement wherever you think it might be appreciated. From rubinson at u.arizona.edu Sun Aug 9 19:42:13 2009 From: rubinson at u.arizona.edu (Claude Rubinson) Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 19:42:13 -0700 Subject: [buug] Reminder: Happy hour Mon, Aug 10@7pm Message-ID: <20090810024213.GD3893@wagner> Hi all, Just wanted to send out a reminder that I'm going to be at Triple Rock tomorrow (Monday) night at 7pm. I'm looking forward to catching up with old friends, so I hope that you'll be able to make it. And if I don't know you, you should still come out--it would be nice to put some faces to the names that have joined the list over the past few years. I plan to be there at 7 or just before with a sign. If you don't see me, however, just ask as we have a reservation. Website for Triple-Rock is at http://www.triplerock.com/. See you tomorrow! Claude From pewterbot9 at gmail.com Wed Aug 12 16:17:18 2009 From: pewterbot9 at gmail.com (Pewter Bot) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:17:18 -0700 Subject: [buug] Speaking of Cloud Computing... Message-ID: I am in need of a basic video editor, nothing fancy or complicated. While I did install Open Movie Editor, I thought perhaps there might be an online video editor or two, now that cloud computing is taking off. So I searched, and I found: 5 Free Online Video Editing Sites Reviewed http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2124816,00.asp -- Zeke Krahlin http://tinyurl.com/snackboy From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Thu Aug 13 06:09:43 2009 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:09:43 -0700 Subject: [buug] BALUG: Tu 2009-08-18 OpenHatch: Community tools for open source: Asheesh Laroia, Raphael Krut-Landau and Karen Rustad; + other news Message-ID: <20090813060943.309916s819iyi4dc@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG: Tu 2009-08-18 OpenHatch: Community tools for open source: Asheesh Laroia, Raphael Krut-Landau and Karen Rustad; + other news Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2009-08-18 Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below). For our 2009-08-18 BALUG meeting, we're excited to present: OpenHatch is an online network for open source geeks. The fragmentation of Free Software means it's hard to know where you can make a difference. OpenHatch provides a profile engine so you can showcase the contributions you've made and a cross-project bug search engine to help you find issues targeted at your skills and passions. OpenHatch is looking for feedback on their early alpha, enthusiastic testers, and ideas about other community tools that can enrich the open source experience. The time will be split between a presentation and Q&A from the audience. Asheesh is the data seducer at OpenHatch. He is a Debian Developer, was a software engineer for Creative Commons, and put 288 inflatable pink flamingos on his campus quad. He has written testimony in an EFF copyright case and volunteered for the World Food Programme in Uganda. Asheesh will be joined by his two colleagues at OpenHatch, Raphael Krut-Landau and Karen Rustad. Karen served on the board of Students for Free Culture for two years and has built viral media outreach campaigns for Open Access advocacy group, SPARC. Raphael is a Linux enthusiast and web applications designer. So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP: rsvp at balug.org **Why RSVP??** Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and they help ensure that we'll be able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room. Meeting Details... 6:30pm Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 2009-08-18 Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy PARKING: Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny http://www.sfpsg.com/ Cost: The meetings are always free, but dinner is $13 After meeting meeting (?) Presuming enough folks want to after the main meeting, those interested may gather at a nearby venue (e.g. pub) for further discussion on, e.g.: o BALUG steering committee (talk about what BALUG wants/needs to do and possible changes, etc.) o stuff one can do to help BALUG o ideas for possible future talks/presentations (got contacts/leads?) o random Linux, etc. topics o random networking o discussion of topic(s) from/for meetings current, past, and future o insert your topic here :-) ------------------------------ Additional upcoming BALUG meetings: 2009-09-15 Christian Einfeld on: Help yourself by helping the underdog... public schools. (Linux, Open Source, ...) ------------------------------ Missed the 2009-07-21 meeting on Regular Expressions? Slides, etc. See: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2009-July/004456.html ------------------------------ Picn*x 18 - The Linux 18th Anniversary Picnic This coming Saturday 2009-08-15 http://www.linuxpicnic.org/ ------------------------------ Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or things we should do differently): publicity-feedback at balug.org http://www.balug.org/ From jim at well.com Tue Aug 25 09:55:58 2009 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:55:58 -0700 Subject: [buug] BayPIGgies meeting Thursday August 27, 2009: Intro to wxPython Message-ID: <1251219358.6819.47.camel@jim-laptop> BayPIGgies meeting Thursday August 27, 2009: Introduction to wxPython NOTE BayPIGgies meets at the Symantec Vcafe, at Symantec's location at 350 Ellis Street in Mountain View. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&ei=w6i_Sfr6MZmQsQOzlv0v&hl=en&t=h&msa=0&msid=116202735295394761637.00046550c09ff3d96bff1&ll=37.397693,-122.053707&spn=0.002902,0.004828&z=18 Tonight's talk is * Introduction to wxPython by Tony Cappollini Meetings start with a Newbie Nugget, a short discussion of an essential Python feature, specially for those new to Python. Tonight's Newbie Nugget: List Comprehension LOCATION Symantec Corporation Symantec Vcafe 350 Ellis Street Mountain View, CA 94043 BayPIGgies meeting information is available at http://baypiggies.net/new/plone ------------------------ Agenda ------------------------ ..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements. ..... 7:35 PM to 7:35 PM ................ Newbie Nugget: List Comprehension ..... 7:35 PM to 8:55 PM ................ Title: Introduction to wxPython by Tony Cappellini wxPython presents the wxWidgets open source cross-platform GUI library to Python programmers. Tonight's talk presents essential issues of using wxPython. ..... 8:55 PM to 9:20 PM ................ Mapping and Random Access Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics the announcers are interested in. Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up individually on the announcements and other topics of interest. From jim at well.com Wed Aug 26 17:33:55 2009 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:33:55 -0700 Subject: [buug] BayPIGgies meeting Thursday August 27, 2009: NEW: Managing Software Developers Message-ID: <1251333235.9073.31.camel@jim-laptop> BayPIGgies meeting Thursday August 27, 2009: Managing Software Developers There's a last minute change in the BayPIGgies meeting: Alex Martelli will present his thoughts on managing a software development team. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Martelli Title: Managing Software Developers by Alex Martelli Managing software development projects can benefit from some approaches that are rather different from most traditional management techniques. Software developers operate with their own particular mindset, culture, and reward system. To motivate and inspire a top programming team, one type of ideal manager is a technical peer who can jump into the code and work hands-on, together with the developers, to solve thorny problems. Such technical involvement can keep a project moving forward and help the manager build credibility and trust within the team. In this talk, Alex Martelli discusses some common management myths, and shares some immediately useful advice for anyone involved in managing software development projects. NOTE BayPIGgies meets at the Symantec Vcafe, at Symantec's location at 350 Ellis Street in Mountain View. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&ei=w6i_Sfr6MZmQsQOzlv0v&hl=en&t=h&msa=0&msid=116202735295394761637.00046550c09ff3d96bff1&ll=37.397693,-122.053707&spn=0.002902,0.004828&z=18 BayPIGgies meeting information is available at http://baypiggies.net/new/plone From jdeslip at gmail.com Fri Aug 28 12:16:52 2009 From: jdeslip at gmail.com (Jack Deslippe) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:16:52 -0700 Subject: [buug] Linux Banner + Brochure Message-ID: <4A982D24.4020105@gmail.com> BerkeleyLUG is preparing for a Linux/OSS booth at the September 13th Solano Stroll. As part of our preparations, we have designed a 100"x32" Banner that we plan to print in vinyl and a brochure we additionally plan to order color prints of (it also looks decent in black and white). As this is a non-trivial investment of time/resources, we are hoping that these items will be useful for other groups at other events in the future (i.e. we hope the banner can be sent from group to group and used at various places). Thus, I'd like to make other local groups aware of the banner, share the PDF/Source files and get some feedback. We plan to send these off to be printed in the next day or so; so, we are not looking for major design changes at this point, but corrections/suggestions to the content etc... The files are located at: http://www.berkeleylug.com/Contributions/ Note that the brochure PDF is quite large (40MB) due to the uncompressed print quality images contained in the pdf. Note, these files are also advertised on our projects page: http://www.berkeleylug.com/?page_id=2 I apologize if this is sent inappropriately to any lists - and ask that people forward it to other lists they think would be interested. Cheers, Jack Deslippe