http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2262 <pre> The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting: Monday June 17, 2013 7:00pm - 9:00pm Presentation: Exploring the Terminal by Micah Cowan Everything you ever wanted to know about the terminal -- the virtual consule used for interacting with the command-line and text-based applications: * how terminals work, * the special codes used to move the cursor to different positions, set colors and graphical effects, draw dialogs, or designate character encodings, * the terminfo and termcap databases for terminal features, and how to: * make a custom color bash prompt, * record and play back terminal sessions, * create interactive demos to run on the terminal, and * manage a set of "virtual" terminals you can disconnect from and reconnect to, using tools called terminal multiplexers. Various useful utility programs will be covered in the course of this talk, including: * script, scriptreplay Record and </pre> nbs 2013-06-06T17:18:45 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2261 <pre>The book was released last November and is available in hard copy, but it can also be downloaded for free. http://codingfreedom.com/buy_download.html There's also an interview with the author, Gabriella Coleman, on a public radio show, To The Best of Our Knowledge. Interview can be heard here: http://www.ttbook.org/book/gabriella-coleman-coding-freedom-ethics-and-aesthetics-hacking Book details: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9883.html -- Romel </pre> Romel Jacinto 2013-05-13T03:21:57 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2260 <pre>The Installfest is at 1 pm today! come on down for pizza and Linux love! On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Christian Einfeldt &lt;einfeldt-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt;wrote: </pre> Christian Einfeldt 2013-04-28T17:41:55 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2259 <pre>Hi, Partimus.org is going to be hosting a pizza party and triagefest / installfest tomorrow at the Creative Arts Charter School at 1601 Turk Street at Pierce St in San Francisco from 1 pm to about 3:30 pm. We have about a dozen machines to install with GNU-Linux. Mostly detail work (packing notebooks up, numbering them). If there's human resources and interest, post installation work could be done (log in, connect to the wifi, validate that a browser works -- that sort of thing. Q/A basically. Bring USB sticks with Lubuntu 12.04 on them. If you don't have that, Ubuntu 12.04 will do. No need to worry about UEFI. Please also bring everything that you would need to triage hardware. Screw drivers, needle nose pliers, etc. When you arrive, please text or call Christian at 415-351-1300 so that I can let you in, as the school is quite large, and you could get lost. Thanks! </pre> Christian Einfeldt 2013-04-27T22:56:02 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2258 <pre> The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting: Monday May 20, 2013 7:00pm - 9:00pm Presentation: Smart Static Sites with Hakyll by Eric Rasmussen An overview of modern static site generators with a focus on Hakyll (http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/), a Haskell-based DSL (domain-specific language) for generating static websites and blogs (no Haskell knowledge required). This talk will look at a new trend in truly open source blogging, different markdown formats, responsive design for mobile/tablet, compiling/compressing static assets, and deploying with rsync. About the speaker: Eric is a software developer for newcars.com and is active in the python and haskell open source communities. This meeting will be held at a special location: Davis Public Library Blanchard meeting room 315 East 14th Street Davis, California 95616 For more details on this meeting, visit: http://www.lugod.org/meeting/ or simply: http://www.lugod.org/ (and fol</pre> nbs 2013-04-26T16:56:30 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2257 <pre>Hi everyone, Once again, we've decided to sync up our monthly San Francisco Ubuntu Hour with the 2nd Wednesday date of the Bay Area Debian Meeting, to offer an evening of Ubuntu and Debian! So this Wednesday, April 10th, the plan is as follows: First, from 6-7PM: San Francisco Ubuntu Hour Location: The Roastery, 199 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco Details: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/2331-ubuntu-hour-san-francisco/ Then, from 7-9PM: Bay Area Debian Meeting Location: Henry's Hunan Restaurant, 110 Natoma Street, San Francisco Details: http://bad.debian.net/list/2013-April/003539.html So come out to the Ubuntu Hour and join us for dinner at the Bay Area Debian Meeting! To find us at both events, look for the people in the Linux shirts and the penguin, Squeeze and Wheezy stuffed toys. At Henry's Hunan we'll have reservations under "Bay Area Debian" Hope to see you there! </pre> Elizabeth Krumbach 2013-04-06T00:59:24 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2256 <pre>Stefano (BCCed) - thank you very much! It was great having you for the talk/presentation at BALUG's meeting yesterday! For those that wish to take a/another look at the "slides" from yesterday's meeting[1], we now have a copy of them here: http://www.archive.balug.org/2013/2013-03-19/2013-03-19-balug.odp references/excerpts/footnotes: 1. http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-announce-balug.org/2013-March/000207.html </pre> Michael Paoli 2013-03-21T02:30:47 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2255 <pre> </pre> Michael Paoli 2013-03-14T08:20:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2254 <pre>Since folks on the BALUG list have expressed interest about Debian events *, the next upcoming one is the Bay Area Debian (B.A.D.) meeting this Wed 2013-03-13 7:30pm, to be held at Old Jerusalem Restaurant located a mere pair of blocks or so from San Francisco's 24th St. Mission BART station. *Please note the absence of synchronizing this month's B.A.D. meeting with the San Francisco Ubuntu Hour, as has been carried out in past months. Here is the brief and essential part of the Fwd'd announcement: To: "Bay Area Debian" &lt;bad-RaS6OT+a8SMi5wvc6DhUiQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: B.A.D. Meeting For March 2013 The B.A.D. meeting for this month will be held at Old Jerusalem Restaurant, on March 13th, 2013 at 2976 Mission St. (between 25th and 26th but almost at 26th) in San Francisco at 7.30 pm. https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.749323,-122.418509 -- bad mailing list bad-RaS6OT+a8SMi5wvc6DhUiQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://bad.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bad -- Go Open Source Software Bears! </pre> GoOSSBears 2013-03-09T02:34:44 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2253 <pre>I did hear from Stefano Maffulli. Particularly, if you've got any specific questions or requests for his upcoming talk/presentation at our BALUG meeting this month on 2013-03-19[1], just ask/mention here or drop me a note, and I'll pass that along, and he'll be sure and try to cover such questions/requests. references/excerpts: 1. http://www.balug.org/#2013-03-19 </pre> Michael Paoli 2013-03-04T19:21:01 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2252 <pre> Sure! If you look at the specs of something like a Raspberry Pi, they're pretty minimal spec machines. You can get a modest graphical interface running on them but it's not going to be particularly useful for modern document processing or browsing the web, particularly if you end up doing things like flash or java-based edutainment games, which a lot of children do. The allure of the Pentium 4 systems we shipped to Ghana (which are pretty much identical in specs to ones Partimus puts in local charter schools and centers here) is that they are actually similarly priced as these machines since they come donated - the ones shipped to Ghana were somewhere around $20-30/each and came refurbished from the Goodwill organization in Pittsburgh, PA. You do still need to ship monitors since the old CRT TVs that they have access to don't have good enough resolution (even a big flat panel TV you buy today still can't match resolution on most standard monitors) and unfortunately most of the hardware like keyboards and</pre> Elizabeth Krumbach 2013-02-28T05:51:05 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2251 <pre> Thanks for the link to the slides and for the useful term "photo-heavy". In the last year or two there has been an increase in the number of small form factor low cost computer models on the market. These range in price from about $30 to a little over $100. What they don't have is displays and keyboards. I wonder if such computers would be easier to manage to get to where they're intended (as opposed to some way(-lay) station run by fee-hungry officialdom). If so, are there sufficient keyboards and displays in the locale (maybe teevees)? And might it be possible for one person to send a single such small form factor computer directly through the mail or global shipping to a school or person connected to a school or other needy institution? On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 09:32 -0800, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: </pre> jim 2013-02-21T19:24:41 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2250 <pre>Lyz - much thanks again for presenting! "Archive" copy of "slides" now also available at: http://www.archive.balug.org/2013/2013-02-19/Deploying_100_Ubuntu_Desktops_in_Ghana.pdf </pre> Michael Paoli 2013-02-21T18:52:24 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2249 <pre>On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Michael Paoli &lt;Michael.Paoli-aP5ABqoqSTtUAgJt6FLh2g&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; wrote: Thanks to everyone who was able to come out on Tuesday! Slides from my talk (4.5M, they're photo-heavy) are available here: http://princessleia.com/presentations/Deploying_100_Ubuntu_Desktops_in_Ghana.pdf </pre> Elizabeth Krumbach 2013-02-21T17:32:50 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2248 <pre>Review copy book(s) for BALUG: Ubuntu Unleashed (2013) &amp; DevOps Troubleshooting For This coming Tuesday's 2013-02-19 BALUG meeting, we should have (selection of) at least one of these books to give away: Ubuntu Unleashed 2013 Edition: Covering 12.10 and 13.04, 8th Edition By Matthew Helmke Published Dec 5, 2012 by Sams. Copyright 2013 Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8" Pages: 888 Edition: 8th Book ISBN-10: 0-672-33624-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33624-9 http://www.informit.com/title/0672336243 DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices By Kyle Rankin Published Nov 13, 2012 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Copyright 2013 Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8" Pages: 240 Edition: 1st Book ISBN-10: 0-321-83204-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-321-83204-7 http://www.informit.com/title/0321832043 And thanks to Pearson's User Group program for providing these review copies. :-) references/excerpts: http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2013q1/009786.html https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/berkeleylug/amQgghS8N0k </pre> Michael Paoli 2013-02-15T15:08:18 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2247 <pre>Last week's Department of Justice lawsuit against S&amp;P reminds that five years after the financial crisis, the global financial system is still broken and constructive solutions remain out of reach. We believe that open source tools can bring the transparency that this system needs, and have formed a Meetup group in San Francisco to discuss open source /open data finance concepts. Our next Meetup is Wednesday, February 20th at 6:00 PM at the offices of Kaggle, 188 King Street Unit 502, San Francisco, CA. To attend in person, please join the Open Source Finance Meetup &lt;http://www.meetup.com/Open-Source-Finance&gt; group and RSVP. A description of this meeting follows: Rating agency assessments of sovereign debt have been in the news for some time. In 2011, S&amp;P faced enormous criticism for downgrading the US, while all agencies have been criticized for downgrading Greece too late and for discriminating against emerging market countries. Less is said about US state bond ratings, but interested observers might w</pre> Marc Joffe 2013-02-13T16:14:32 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2246 <pre>http://www.priorityafrica.org/ THIRD Annual Ubuntu Award Dinner &amp; Ceremony &amp; Tenth Anniversary of Priority Africa Network Saturday, February 16, 2013 The signature Africa event of the Bay Area will be celebrated again with inspiration ! We welcome members of our community to join us ! Buy your tickets soon as we have sold out TWICE in the past two events ! This year's Keynote is Dr. Amina Mama, distinguished author, activist and fearless advocate for human rights in Africa ! Music Performance: Fely Tchaco, Bay Area's own Ivorian performer weaving social justice messages ! The 2013 Honorees are: Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts Emmanuel Nado, KALW and Echoes of Africa Eritrean Youth For Change - Bay Area African Youth Activists Dr. Siri Brown, Chair Merritt College African American Studies http://www.priorityafrica.org/Calendar-Events.html http://m.bpt.me/event/308471 ----- Original message ----- From: "giovanni_re" &lt;john_re-97jfqw80gc5zbRFIqnYvSA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; To: BTG &lt;BerkTIPGlobal</pre> giovanni_re 2013-02-12T19:20:40 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2245 <pre> The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting: Monday February 18, 2013 7:00pm - 9:00pm Presentation: SugarCRM and Open Source Joseph Arruda, Senior Product Manager, SugarCRM This talk will discuss how a business like SugarCRM is Open Source-friendly, how it release its code, how it consumes 3rd-party code, and how it uses code review tools like BlackDuck with continuous integration. About the Speaker: Joseph Arruda is Senior Product Manager at SugarCRM, focusing on mobile and cloud-based initiatives for both outward bound products and internal tools. He has been described as an open source geek, a policy wonk, and even a bit of a creative illustrator. (Joe was also in attendance at LUGOD's second-ever meeting, in January 1999.) About SugarCRM: SugarCRM produces a customer relationship management (CRM) system that is available in both open source and commercial applications. SugarCRM's functionality includes sales-force automation, </pre> nbs 2013-02-11T07:46:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2244 <pre>Hi everyone, Once again, we've decided to sync up our monthly San Francisco Ubuntu Hour with the 2nd Wednesday date of the Bay Area Debian Meeting, to offer an evening of Ubuntu and Debian! So this Wednesday, February 13th, the plan is as follows: First, from 6-7PM: San Francisco Ubuntu Hour Location: The Roastery, 199 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco Details: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/2181/detail/ Then, from 7-9PM: Bay Area Debian Meeting Location: Henry's Hunan Restaurant, 110 Natoma Street, San Francisco Details: http://bad.debian.net/list/2013-February/003526.html So come out to the Ubuntu Hour and join us for dinner at the Bay Area Debian Meeting! To find us at both events, look for the people in the Linux shirts and the penguin, Squeeze and Wheezy stuffed toys. At Henry's Hunan we'll have reservations under "Bay Area Debian" Hope to see you there! </pre> Elizabeth Krumbach 2013-02-09T20:19:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2243 <pre>Quoting Akkana Peck (akkana-xsA6Fsh27J7Z1NkodEmWbg&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org): That's good, and I'm cheered to hear it. If Christian would do this consistently and not just say 'publci school', there would not be an issue. Anyway, time to leave this thread, I think. (Looks like lawsuit boy is still at it.) </pre> Rick Moen 2013-01-30T16:58:47 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug/2242 <pre> Amazing publicity. ;-) Why, (originally) intended or not, mere mention of the phrase "public school"(s) in context of publicly funded non-profit charter school(s), and just look at the typical additional coverage, "discussion", debate, etc. achieved. Why a single mention of that phrase in a single post[2] results in touching off 74[3] or more follow-up posts, including even multiple testimonials[4][5]. "No such thing as bad publicity" - debatable if it would even be "bad" publicity, but publicity it certainly is. Intended and/or not, is rather effective, eh? references/excerpts/footnotes: 1. http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-January/005005.html 2. http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-January/004931.html 3. http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-January/date.html 4. http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-January/004988.html 5. http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-January/005004.html </pre> Michael Paoli 2013-01-30T06:56:54 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.user-groups.linux.balug