===== Distro Talk 2015 =====


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====== December Meeting: Distro Talk 2015 ======

Date: December 3, 2015 at 7 p.m.\\
Location: [[history:location:24|Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room B185]]\\


**Note** This meeting is at the Woodroff campus of Algonquin in Building T, room T-317 at 7:00pm

This month we will be having a distro talk. If you have a distro or specialty you are interested in and want to share some information on, feel free to take a turn at the front of the room when the scheduled speakers are done.

We have at three distros/environments scheduled so far, but there is room for more. If this changes, the page will be updated.

**Pre-meeting:**

There will be a one hour pre-meeting item from 18:00 to 19:00 for people who are new to Linux, have general questions, or wish to help out with people who are just getting started.

**After Meeting Social:**

After the meeting, there will be a social event at one of the nearby pubs or restaurants. A short discussion and vote as to location will be taken then.

**GPG Keysigning:**

After the main talk there will be the opportunity for a GPG key signing. This is a monthly offering, just look for Scott after the talk and we can go from there. Bring some kind of photo ID and some keyslips if you expect people to sign your key.If you need some method of creating pages of keyslips, there is an [[http://openpgp.quelltextlich.at/slip.html|online slip generator]] available.


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===== CentOS Overview =====

Speaker: [[history:speaker:73|Scott Murphy]]\\

Scott will be giving a brief overview of CentOS

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==== About the Speaker ====

Scott has been haunting server rooms and using/administrating Unix and Unix like systems for more than 30 years now. His background includes IT infrastructure, system administration, deployments and migrations, security and management. He is currently working as a consultant for the federal government.


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===== Linux Mint =====

Speaker: [[history:speaker:87|Kelly Kendrick]]\\

Kelly will be giving a brief overview of Linux Mint

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==== About the Speaker ====

Survivor of Nortel, Altera and Workstream, Kelly has had a varied career as a systems administrator. He has recently finished a stint with Elections Canada and is looking for his next opportunity.


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===== Kodi and Openelec =====

Speaker: [[history:speaker:19|John C. Nash]]\\

John will be giving a brief talk on Kodi and Openelec on an ASUS EEE 900

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==== About the Speaker ====

Retired Professor of Management at U of Ottawa.

  * 2006 - May -- Pres. of OCLUG -- Now I'll have to learn more about Linux!
  * 2007 - Mar -- have learned a lot, including how much still to learn.


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===== Ubuntu Linux =====

Speaker: [[history:speaker:72|Ian Gorman]]\\

Ian will be giving a short talk on Ubuntu

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==== About the Speaker ====

Ian has a lot of experience at applying experience outside of its original box.

He has solved problems in Economics, Math, Computer Science, logic based controllers, bicycles, and human relations, generally mixing in information from at least one other discipline or computer language to make it work, or work better. His experience with computers includes Linux, Mac, and several server OSes from IBM, Sun, and others. He has worked with drivers, parsers, API design, business rules, Java garbage collectors, and some less exotic code that just needed to work.


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===== Puppy Linux =====

Speaker: [[history:speaker:72|Ian Gorman]]\\

Ian will be giving a short talk on Puppy

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==== About the Speaker ====

Ian has a lot of experience at applying experience outside of its original box.

He has solved problems in Economics, Math, Computer Science, logic based controllers, bicycles, and human relations, generally mixing in information from at least one other discipline or computer language to make it work, or work better. His experience with computers includes Linux, Mac, and several server OSes from IBM, Sun, and others. He has worked with drivers, parsers, API design, business rules, Java garbage collectors, and some less exotic code that just needed to work.


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