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CentraLUG, Monday, December 1st, NHTI Library Room 146

Ted Roche — 2008-11-28T20:39:47

The Central New Hampshire Linux User Group will hold its monthly meeting On Monday, December 1st, starting at 7 PM at the New Hampshire Technical Institute Library, Room 146. Look for the penguin signs. We've have a laptop, projector, network connections and hold an informal Q & A and chat session. Possible topics might include: - the release of Fedora 10 last Wednesday (we'll have a disk or two to share; email me if you'd like one) - the recent Professional Ruby Conference held in Boston (nearly everyone at the conference deploys their apps on Linux!) - upcoming CentraLUG topics - recent GNHLUG meetings - your questions Hope to see you there!

NHRuby.org social meeting, Tuesday, Dec 2.

Scott Garman — 2008-11-24T18:17:44

The NH Ruby and Rails User Group will be doing something a bit different this month in lieu of its normal meeting. We'll be meeting early in December to have an informal get-together at the Rosa Restaurant in Portsmouth, NH. Join us at The Rosa for dinner and drinks - there will be conversation about your favorite Ruby and other web/technology topics, with ample opportunity to get sidetracked on non-Ruby related subjects. A note to shy geeks: we are a very welcoming and laid-back group, give us a try. :) We do ask that you RSVP directly to me (if you haven't already) so we have an accurate headcount for the restaurant, since we have reserved a semi-private room. WHEN: Tuesday, December 2, 2008. 7-9 PM. WHERE: The Rosa Restaurant, 80 State Street, Portsmouth, NH Links: http://www.therosa.com http://wiki.nhruby.org/index.php/Upcoming_meetings Regards, Scott -- Scott Garman sgarman at zenlinux dot com

[DLSLUG-Announce] PyCUDA and GPU Programming - DLSLUGMonthlyMeeting - 2008-12-04

Bill McGonigle — 2008-11-21T07:46:12

*************************************************************** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *************************************************************** The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, December 4th, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Carson L02 All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 PyCUDA and GPU Programming presented by Nicholas Sinnott-Armstrong Nick will give a talk about an exciting emerging technology that deals with the use of GPUs. PyCUDA (and CUDA in general) is an easy to use framework to take advantage of the massive processing power and memory bandwidth available on the GPUs of most enthusiast machines writing simple templated C code. A short introduction to Python will be followed by an in-depth look at how easy it is to write really fast code for scientific and HPC applications at a very low system cost. Everyone who attends is invited and encouraged (though not required) to bring a machine with SSH support -- GNU screen-cast will be set up to give everyone a hands-on view of the presentation. Nicholas Sinnott-Armstrong is a devout follower of the Open Source methodology. He has worked on numerous Open Source projects, including the Open Graphics Project, Lumiera, and Python, and spends his free time browsing the universe Ubuntu and Debian repos. His favorite language to program in is Scheme, but when that doesn't work out, he settles for a mix of Haskell, Python, Verilog, and C. He has a special interest in hardware solutions to software problems, including but not limited to FPGAs and GPUs. 8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make announcements or ask a linux/floss question of the group. ----- Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested.

MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 20 Nov,Photographic prowess via Linux tools

Jim Kuzdrall — 2008-11-19T12:24:56

Who : Máirín Duffy, Interaction Designer, Red Hat Engineering What : Techniques for creating and adjusting photos Where: Martha's Exchange Day : Thur 20 Nov **Tomorrow** Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion :: Overview Máirín Duffy is back to demonstrate the powerful image creation and correction programs Linux provides. She covers several tasks and problems many of us have encountered. After, you may ask her expert advice on your own image problem -- make that "photo problem". - Removing tint from photos: Too blue? Yellowish cast? Máirín briefly reviews a procedure for removing unwanted tint from photos. - Resizing photos without cropping or distortion: Make your photo just a bit wider or a bit taller without making your Aunt Bea look fat or giving your boss a pointy head. The GIMP liquid rescale plug-in preserves the composition while changing the aspect ratio. Máirín shows how. ( http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/lqr/ ) - Face painting: Turn your kids into snowflake-bejeweled elves and reindeer using this cool GIMP trick. No messy facepaint needed! Christmas cards? (See http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/barbara.png ) - Screen prints from photos: Make solid color-area representation of your photo for a logo, icon, or poster. Inkscape turns you into a budding Andy Warhol - or better. Example: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/photo-to-vector/maasai-woman.jpg.png >>> RSVP to Jim Kuzdrall for dinner to assure adequate seating. <<< !!! If you are not a "Regular Attendee" (50%), please let me know. !!! Driving directions: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/PlaceMarthasExchange Thanks, Jim Kuzdrall gnhlug< at >intrel.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce< at >mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/

PySIG for November -- yes indeed,altho moved to Tuesday (the 23rd)

Bill Sconce — 2008-11-14T12:17:56

Hi, all - I stopped by the ABI, and we're in luck for moving our "4th Thursday" to "4th Tuesday" this month to get away from Thanksgiving. So, PySIG is ON, Tuesday the 23rd, 7:00PM at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester. Agenda to follow. If we have one.(*) File formats and data interchange? A workshop? -Bill (*) Well we do have: get ready for the big T day, get the resistance built up... seems to call for cookies, heh.

MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 20 Nov,Photographic prowess via Linux tools

Jim Kuzdrall — 2008-11-13T14:28:46

Who : Máirín Duffy, Interaction Designer, Red Hat Engineering What : Techniques for creating and adjusting photos Where: Martha's Exchange Day : Thur 20 Nov **Next Week** Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion :: Overview Máirín Duffy is back to demonstrate the powerful image creation and correction programs Linux provides. She covers several tasks and problems many of us have encountered. After, you may ask her expert advice on your own image problem -- make that "photo problem". - Removing tint from photos: Too blue? Yellowish cast? Máirín briefly reviews a procedure for removing unwanted tint from photos. - Resizing photos without cropping or distortion: Make your photo just a bit wider or a bit taller without making your Aunt Bea look fat or giving your boss a pointy head. The GIMP liquid rescale plug-in preserves the composition while changing the aspect ratio. Máirín shows how. ( http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/lqr/ ) - Face painting: Turn your kids into snowflake-bejeweled elves and reindeer using this cool GIMP trick. No messy facepaint needed! Christmas cards? (See http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/barbara.png ) - Screen prints from photos: Make solid color-area representation of your photo for a logo, icon, or poster. Inkscape turns you into a budding Andy Warhol - or better. Example: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/photo-to-vector/maasai-woman.jpg.png >>> RSVP to Jim Kuzdrall for dinner to assure adequate seating. <<< !!! If you are not a "Regular Attendee" (50%), please let me know. !!! Driving directions: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/PlaceMarthasExchange Thanks, Jim Kuzdrall gnhlug< at >intrel.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce< at >mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/

No NHRuby November meeting/early December social gathering.

Scott Garman — 2008-11-11T18:54:47

The NH Ruby and Rails User Group will not have a meeting this month (November) due to the Boston Professional Ruby conference which is happening the same week. Also, we will be holding a social gathering on Tuesday, December 2 in lieu of our December meeting. Join us in Portsmouth (location TBA) on 12/2 for dinner and drinks - there will be conversation about your favorite Ruby and other web/technology topics, with ample opportunity to get sidetracked on non-Ruby related subjects. A note to shy geeks: we are a very welcoming and laid-back group, give us a try. :) We're hoping to reserve a room at a local restaurant and thus request an RSVP by Saturday, Nov 15 if you're planning to attend so we can gauge the level of interest. Scott

MonadLUG November 13, 2008

charlie — 2008-11-11T12:23:30

Who: Group Activity What: Xen Hypervisor Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008 Time: 7:00PM ** Where: SAU 1 office, 106 Hancock Rd., Peterborough We'll have a host machine with the Xen kernel installed and we'll see what we can accomplish with it as a group. If you don't know anything about Xen virtualization you'll see a practical demo, and if you have some knowledge we'll ask you to share it. --charlie

GNHLUG is back on the Internet

Ben Scott — 2008-11-11T03:17:25

Greetings, As some of you noticed, the GNHLUG Internet server experienced an extended outage recently. We were down starting the morning of Thr 23 Oct, and are now back up as of Mon 10 Oct. A number of factors contributed to both the initial outage and the length of the downtime. More details will be posted to gnhlug-discuss for those interested. If you still see the "sad penguin" page on the web site, try forcing your browser to fetch a new copy of the page (SHIFT+CTRL+R in Firefox). I would like to apologize to the membership for the delay in getting things back online. Please report any further trouble to me. Thanks for your patience.

NHRuby meeting TOMORROW, Oct 21: Rails plugins,REST applications.

Scott Garman — 2008-10-20T15:44:18

Tomorrow night's NHRuby.org meeting will include two great talks: * Nick Plante will be talking about the Rails Plugin system. The Rails plugin system allows you to add powerful features to your applications by altering or enhancing key pieces of the framework. Plugins tend to be easy to use and can save precious development cycles, freeing you to focus on the elements that make your project truly unique. Although plug-ins are often dead simple to use, authoring them is not always quite as straightforward. Nick's presentation will give developers an overview of the Rails plugin architecture and the hooks that are provided for creating your own. We'll take a look at the genesis of a typical plugin, and see how we can extract and generalize our code, repackaging it in a modular way such that it can be reused across projects and redistributed within the Rails community. Along the way, we'll also learn a thing or two about Ruby metaprogramming practices, and examine strategies for testing and redistributing plugin code. * Brian Turnbull will be giving an introduction to RESTful web services as a follow-up to his HTTP talk last month. REpresentational State Transfer is the theoretical underpinnings of HTTP/1.1. This talk will explain what REST is, present examples of existing web services using REST, and also covers the practical application of REST and the Atom Publishing Protocol in creating a web service. WHEN: Tuesday, October 21, 2008. 7-9 PM. WHERE: RMC Research Offices, 1000 Market Street, Portsmouth, NH. For a map and driving directions, see our wiki site: http://wiki.nhruby.org/index.php/Upcoming_meetings Regards, Scott

NHRuby meeting Tuesday, Oct 21: Rails plugins,REST applications.

Scott Garman — 2008-10-19T02:34:40

This month the NH Ruby and Rails user group has a pair of great presentations for our October meeting: * Nick Plante will be talking about the Rails Plugin system. The Rails plugin system allows you to add powerful features to your applications by altering or enhancing key pieces of the framework. Plugins tend to be easy to use and can save precious development cycles, freeing you to focus on the elements that make your project truly unique. Although plug-ins are often dead simple to use, authoring them is not always quite as straightforward. Nick's presentation will give developers an overview of the Rails plugin architecture and the hooks that are provided for creating your own. We'll take a look at the genesis of a typical plugin, and see how we can extract and generalize our code, repackaging it in a modular way such that it can be reused across projects and redistributed within the Rails community. Along the way, we'll also learn a thing or two about Ruby metaprogramming practices, and examine strategies for testing and redistributing plugin code. * Brian Turnbull will be giving an introduction to RESTful web services as a follow-up to his HTTP talk last month. REpresentational State Transfer is the theoretical underpinnings of HTTP/1.1. This talk will explain what REST is, present examples of existing web services using REST, and also covers the practical application of REST and the Atom Publishing Protocol in creating a web service. WHEN: Tuesday, October 21, 2008. 7-9 PM. WHERE: RMC Research Offices, 1000 Market Street, Portsmouth, NH. For a map and driving directions, see our wiki site: http://wiki.nhruby.org/index.php/Upcoming_meetings Regards, Scott

[DLSLUG-Announce] Nov. 6th DLSLUG Meeting Available toSpeakers

Bill McGonigle — 2008-10-17T02:11:29

Hi, all, November's speaker isn't going to be able to make it, so the meeting is available for any and all presenters. Please contact me if you have something to show or talk about, large or small. I'm happy to report our December speaker is all-in. Outstanding requests are here: http://dlslug.org/topics.html Don't make me break out the nifties. Thanks, -Bill ----- Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 bill-6ft+4TUC7y9qCwUM1VThig< at >public.gmane.orgCell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf _______________________________________________ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list DLSLUG-Announce-Gbln/yiLoe0dnm+yROfE0A< at >public.gmane.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce

MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 16 Oct, Communicating with Pidgins

Jim Kuzdrall — 2008-10-15T11:08:25

Who : Heather Brodeur, avid Pidgin user What : Introduction to Pidgin (formerly Gaim) Instant Messaging Where: Martha's Exchange Day : Thur 16 Oct **Tomorrow** Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion :: Overview Do you use Instant Messaging or IRC (Internet Relay Chat) for daily communications? Were you ever late replying because you weren't looking at that particular IM network? Pidgin has the solution! With Pidgin, Heather Brodeur logs on to multiple IM networks and perhaps an IRC channel or two simultaneously. Sound like a recipe for chaos? Not so. Heather says it works and is easy to use. Heather will first explain the advantages of Instant Messaging over email, phone, smoke signals, etc? That established, she will show how aggregating the services through Pidgin makes IM much easier to use. What does the user interface look like? How does the user do the basics of IM communication? How can you get started with Pidgin? Are there ways to optimize Pidgin to personal tastes? All those things and more will be enthusiastically covered. Any particular questions you want answered? Give Heather a "heads up" warning at epidote-d2bGx9NYiVJWk0Htik3J/w< at >public.gmane.org . >>> RSVP to Jim Kuzdrall for dinner to assure adequate seating. <<< !!! If you are not a "Regular Attendee" (50%), please let me know. !!! Driving directions: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/PlaceMarthasExchange Thanks, Jim Kuzdrall gnhlug-VIewn3mul5HQT0dZR+AlfA< at >public.gmane.org

PySIG in two weeks - Sphinx, and more

Bill Sconce — 2008-10-10T15:53:49

Mark your calendar: Thursday the 23rd. PySIG. Sphinx, presented by our own Arc Riley. Kent's Korner, we hope. Cookies, by Janet. Gotchas, too, probably. And more. As always, at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester, 7:00 PM. (Our continuing thanks to PySIG's hosts, SNHU and ABI!) Beginner's session at 6:30 PM. Agenda to follow. -Bill __________________________________________________________________ http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation for Python projects, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license. It was originally created to translate the new Python documentation, but has now been cleaned up in the hope that it will be useful to many other projects. Although it is still under constant development, the following features are already present, work fine and can be seen “in action” in the Python docs: * Output formats: HTML (including Windows HTML Help) and LaTeX, for printable PDF versions * Extensive cross-references: semantic markup and automatic links for functions, classes, glossary terms and similar pieces of information * Hierarchical structure: easy definition of a document tree, with automatic links to siblings, parents and children * Automatic indices: general index as well as a module index * Code handling: automatic highlighting * Extensions: automatic testing of code snippets, inclusion of docstrings from Python modules, and more Sphinx uses reStructuredText as its markup language, and many of its strengths come from the power and straightforwardness of reStructuredText... _______________________________________________ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce< at >mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/

MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 16 Oct, Communicating with Pidgins

Jim Kuzdrall — 2008-10-09T13:42:16

Who : Heather Brodeur, avid Pidgin user What : Introduction to Pidgin (formerly Gaim) Instant Messaging Where: Martha's Exchange Day : Thur 16 Oct **Next Week** Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion :: Overview Do you use Instant Messaging or IRC (Internet Relay Chat) for daily communications? Were you ever late replying because you weren't looking at that particular IM network? Pidgin has the solution! With Pidgin, Heather Brodeur logs on to multiple IM networks and perhaps an IRC channel or two simultaneously. Sound like a recipe for chaos? Not so. Heather says it works and is easy to use. Heather will first explain the advantages of Instant Messaging over email, phone, smoke signals, etc? That established, she will show how aggregating the services through Pidgin makes IM much easier to use. What does the user interface look like? How does the user do the basics of IM communication? How can you get started with Pidgin? Are there ways to optimize Pidgin to personal tastes? All those things and more will be enthusiastically covered. Any particular questions you want answered? Give Heather a "heads up" warning at epidote-d2bGx9NYiVJWk0Htik3J/w< at >public.gmane.org . >>> RSVP to Jim Kuzdrall for dinner to assure adequate seating. <<< !!! If you are not a "Regular Attendee" (50%), please let me know. !!! Driving directions: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/PlaceMarthasExchange Thanks, Jim Kuzdrall gnhlug-VIewn3mul5HQT0dZR+AlfA< at >public.gmane.org

MonadLUG October 9, 2008

charlie — 2008-10-07T15:22:12

Who: Patrick Galbraith What: MySQL Replication Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008 Time: 7:00PM ** Where: SAU 1 office, 106 Hancock Rd., Peterborough http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/www/MonadLUG ** Due to a scheduling conflict we will not be meeting in the SAU ** conference room where we normally meet, but in a smaller conference room ** in the Middle School. Please enter as usual at the SAU office and there ** will be signs and/or someone to meet you. (cf) About the presentation: Replication is one of the most useful features of MySQL. With replication, one can architect an asynchronous, scaled-out, redundant, distributed, and efficient paradigm that provides data to Web or other applications, either within or even across data centers. Patrick will discuss various replication schemes, their advantages and detriments of each. He will explain how to set up replication using his recent experience with a multimaster replication set-up he used to build a database architecture for Grazr.com that spans multiple data centers, and cover his experience over the past year about what he has learned about replication: * Multimaster setup * Slave setup * Error recovery * Monitoring * Backups * Hardware, OS requirements * Apache/Web server needs * Live demonstration on how to set up a local multimaster, for testing code in a simulated live setup. Also a question and answer session. About Patrick: Patrick Galbraith first discovered the joy of working with Linux in 1993 over a long weekend and 26 floppy disks -- downloading each over a 2400 baud modem via UNC Sunsite, onto his Packard Bell. He has since been immersed in using and developing Open Source software. After a several years at various companies promoting the use of Open Source Software, he went on to work at Andover.net in 1999 (later acquired by VA Linux, OSDN), who just happened at that time to acquire Slashdot.org. One day he accidentally walked into a meeting about Slashdot and walked out being responsible for open-sourcing the Slashdot source code, as well as working on features that allowed Slashdot.org handle increased traffic. While there, Patrick, Brian Aker, and Chris Nandor released Slashcode, the Open Source code project of the Slashdot codebase. Some of his particular contributions to Slashcode were the comment filtering, formkeys (to prevent robot and other abusive repetitious posting), catfood (excessive posting detection), as well as caching functionality. It was also during this time he met Monty Widenius and David Axmark who were working with OSDN to develop replication for MySQL. After three years at OSDN, he moved on to work various contract positions developing perl applications at companies such as TMobile and Classmates.org. In 2003, he was offered a great opportunity to work at MySQL AB, developing and maintaining various projects such as DBD::mysql, Federated Storage Engine, mysqlslap, mysqldump, bug fixing as well as assisting the documentation and build teams. Until recently, Patrick was working at Grazr Corp. where he has drawn on all his knowledge and experience developing a great, one-of-its-kind system for collecting, managing, sharing and merging feeds. He just began working at Lycos as a Principle Software Engineer. He's currently is involved with Open Source projects: maintaining and developing the FederatedX Storage Engine, Memcached Functions for MySQL, is the public maintainer of DBD::mysql (mysql perl driver), libmemcached C++ library, as well as other projects. In his "spare" time, he is part-owner of a Wireless Broadband company, Radius North, providing Internet service in rural New Hampshire to customers not within DSL or Cable service. He also enjoys hiking, studying languages, nature watching, projects such as building barns and sheds, as well as cooking Thai and Indian food. Above all, he enjoys being with the love of his life, Ruth, who is a Naturopathic Doctor.

NEXT MONDAY 10/6: CentraLUG: Arc Riley and Intrepid Ibex

Ted Roche — 2008-09-29T13:27:04

The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central NH GNHLUG chapter, happens the first Monday of most months at the New Hampshire Technical Institute's Library, room 146, at 7 PM. Next month's meeting is on October 6th at 7 PM. Directions and maps are available at http://www.centralug.org Open to the public. Free admission. Tell your friends. At this meeting, Arc Riley will give us a preview of the beta version of Ubuntu 8.10, "Intrepid Ibex" About the presentation ====================== Ubuntu has been making inroads and gaining mindshare for the last couple of years. Aggressive campaigning, slick graphics, and a clear guiding philosophy of "Linux for Human Beings" have combined to make Ubuntu a popular distribution for home and novice users, laptop users and hobbyists interested in the cutting edge. Based loosely on the Debian platform, it combines the strengths of the Debian tools with an aggressive "release early, release often" schedule and helpful and friendly community support. At this presentation, Arc will show us some of the new innovations coming with the next release of Ubuntu, version 8.10 (Year-Month), nicknamed "Intrepid Ibex" and talk about his experiences over the years with Ubuntu and the community around it. About Arc --------- Arc has been active in the FOSS community for several years. He's one of the leaders of the PySoy [1] project, developing a 3D game engine for Python, something he presented at PySIG [2] recently. He was an activist in the Ithaca, NY area until his recent move to New Hampshire, where he regularly attends GNHLUG functions and has worked towards the formation of the New Hampshire Ubuntu Local Community [3] group. [1] http://www.pysoy.org/ [2] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/13484 [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewHampshireTeam --------------- As always, meetings are subject to change. You are encouraged to join the low-traffic announcement list at http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce to get announcement and cancellation information.

Boston * Sat/Sun 27/28 Sep * OpenStreetMap mapping parties

Ben Scott — 2008-09-26T11:44:56

What : OpenStreetMap mapping party Date : Sat 27 Sep & Sun 28 Sep (2008) Where: Boston, MA and surrounding area OpenStreetMap (http://www.openstreetmap.org/) is a Free Content, crowd-sourced mapping project, and is very cool. They run mapping parties, which are events where anyone can help out. Bring your GPS, or they'll lend you one, and show you how to go out and do some mapping, and then get the data in to the OpenStreetMap database. They have one coming up in Boston this weekend. These are informal events, with no explicit time commitment, and often a social element / beer afterward. * Saturday 27 September * 10 AM - Experienced mappers start * 10:30 AM - Introduction to OpenStreetMap for beginners * Sunday 28 September * 11 AM - Experienced mappers start. * Sunday 11:30 Introduction to OpenStreetMap for beginners * Initial meet-up: Panera Bread, 200 High Street, Boston, MA 02110 * Afterward: Retire to local bar (TBD) * Web page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Boston * Coordinator: Richard Weait public.gmane.org> For more information, see the web page, or contact Richard. OpenStreetMap is not affiliated with GNHLUG; this is not a GNHLUG event.

[DLSLUG-Announce] A Teaching Compiler Written in MATLAB -DLSLUGMonthly Meeting - 2008-10-02

Bill McGonigle — 2008-09-25T21:21:31

*************************************************************** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *************************************************************** The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, October 2nd, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Carson L02 All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 A Teaching Compiler Written in MATLAB presented by Bill McKeeman Bill McKeeman will give a talk about an ordinary compiler (lex, parse, tree, gen, emit, asm) designed for teaching the principles of compiler writing. There are a few surprises, such as load-and-go, integrated bottom-up and/or top-down parsing, a LaTeX based pretty printer, an LR(1) parse table generator, an Intel x86 emulator for debugging, and the like, all in MATLAB. He will survey the 15meg or so free download, give demos, tell war stories, and answer questions. And yes, it does run under Intel based 32-bit Linux (and Apple and WIN). Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop and download materials from: http://tinyurl.com/matlab-teaching-compiler http://dlslug.org/downloads/meetings/2008/10/cxcom.zip Bill has taught compiler writing at Stanford, University of California at Santa Cruz, Wang Institute, Harvard and Dartmouth. He has written more than 100 compilers, some for money, including the current MATLAB JIT. His website is at http://cs.dartmouth.edu/~mckeeman . 8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make announcements or ask a linux/oss question of the group. ----- Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. ----- Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 bill-6ft+4TUC7y9qCwUM1VThig< at >public.gmane.org Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf _______________________________________________ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list DLSLUG-Announce-Gbln/yiLoe0dnm+yROfE0A< at >public.gmane.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce

MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 18 Sep, OpenStreetMap

Jim Kuzdrall — 2008-09-17T11:33:36

Who : Richard Weait, international open source lecturer What : Introduction to OpenStreetMap Where: Martha's Exchange Day : Thur 18 Sep **Tomorrow** Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion :: Overview OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data - such as street maps. You may think of downloaded maps as free, but they have legal or technical restrictions which prevent using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways. Richard Weait, an active OpenStreetMap contributor, uses slides and laptop demos to describe the geographical products available and how to couple them into your project. Richard is also an enthusiastic volunteer cartographer in the London-Kitchener area of Ontario where he lives. He will suggest many ways you can get in on the fun too. Want an excuse to ride your new bicycle or motorcycle? How about a nice outing in your new sporty convertible? Turn these trips into a lasting social value by checking or creating local maps for the OpenStreetMap organization. What fun pedaling through the New Hampshire countryside with a camera strapped to your head! (You are supposed to visualize something small, not a 40 pound stadium zoom camera.) >>> RSVP to Jim Kuzdrall for dinner to assure adequate seating. <<< !!! If you are not a "Regular Attendee" (50%), please let me know. !!! Driving directions: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/PlaceMarthasExchange Thanks, Jim Kuzdrall gnhlug-VIewn3mul5HQT0dZR+AlfA< at >public.gmane.org

SLUG Durham / Mon 13 Oct / REST - REpresentational StateTransfer in HTTP

Ben Scott — 2008-09-16T13:35:28

Who : Brian Turnbull What : REST - REpresentational State Transfer in HTTP Date : Mon 13 Oct 2008 Time : 7 PM to 9 PM Where: Room 301, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham, NH Brian Turnbull will present the second part of his series on HTTP: "RESTful Web Services". REpresentational State Transfer is the theoretical underpinning of HTTP/1.1. Brian will explain what REST is, present examples of existing web services using REST, and also cover the practical application of REST and the Atom Publishing Protocol in creating a web service. The author of this announcement found Brian's first presentation on HTTP to be quite interesting; there's a lot more hidden behind that "http://" than most people realize. I learned more than I expected in September, and I expect to learn more in October. According to Wikipedia, REST abstracts everything into resources which are uniquely identifiable and accessible via a standard protocol which is stateless, cacheable, and layered, leading to a robust, scalable, distributed system. Come to Brian's talk and learn what that means. == About Brian == Brian Turnbull is a software engineer specializing in Python and Ruby web application/service design, development, and deployment. His current and recent projects include Razume (http://www.razume.com/) and Changents (http://www.changents.com/). He also has a personal website (http://brianturnbull.com/). === About SLUG === SLUG is the Seacoast Linux User Group, and is a chapter of GNHLUG, the Greater NH Linux User Group. Rob Anderson is the SLUG coordinator, and reliably comes up with interesting topics each month. SLUG meets the second Monday of every month, same time, same place. You can find out more about SLUG and GNHLUG at their websites. http://slug.gnhlug.org http://www.gnhlug.org Meetings take place starting at 7:00 PM. Meetings are open to all. The meeting proper ends around 9ish, but it's not uncommon to find hangers-on there until 10 or later. They take place in Room 301 (the third floor conference room), of Morse Hall, at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham.