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====== 2011 Meeting Presentation Notes ======


===== December =====

Getting your next gig

**Jobs in Hi Tech**\\

Speaker: Alan Kearns\\


**CREDIL and the "cooperative commons" model**\\

Speaker: Chris Meloche\\


Panel discussion:  Alan Kearns, Chris Meloche, Tim Inkpen, Ian Gorman, Rob Echlin\\
Moderator: John Nash

Announcement: The Board is planning the Second Leavitt Memorial Seminar around the theme of Open Source word and text processing. We anticipate building a suite of materials and using a team of presenters. To view, and contribute, ideas, see the wiki item at (NOW DEFUNCT!!)\\
http://macnash.telfer.uottawa.ca/week101/doku.php?id=word_processing\\
Despite any note on that wiki, you need to ask nashjc  _at_  uottawa.ca   for a login to edit. (The server cannot send email outside the uottawa domain.) Volunteers most welcome.


===== November =====

Introduction to Yocto\\

Speaker: Robert P. J. Day\\

Quote: "The Yocto Project provides open source, high-quality infrastructure and tools to help developers create their own custom Linux distributions for any hardware architecture and across multiple market segments. The Yocto Project is intended to provide a helpful starting point for developers. The Linux Foundation welcomes the participation of embedded vendors, developers, and other open source projects."\\


Rob Day will provide an introduction to Yocto!

See: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/yocto



===== October ===== 

The Edison Approach. Using scientific software outside the lab. (John Nash) The zip file {{ :wiki:presentations:2011:oclug111006.zip |}} has slides and demos, though you will need to install quite a bit  software to run them. Slides: {{ :wiki:presentations:2011:2011oclug111006.ppt |}}

===== September =====

Sat. Sept 17 was a gaming fest.

===== August =====

Crunch Bang Linux - John Nash, {{ :wiki:presentations:2011:crunchbang110802.odp |}} 
See also https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DefaultFileManager for how to change default file manager in Ubuntu from Nautilus to Thunar so one can remount USB drives. The page has a script with page numbers, and an online tool to strip line numbers was very helpful. e.g., http://www.gonnalearn.com/code/remove_line_numbers_from_code.htm
 
     Bart T. talked about the window manager he uses.

===== April =====

{{:ian-ward-python-2-and-python-3-talk.pdf?linkonly|Python 2 and Python 3}} - Ian Ward

===== March =====

Gnews - {{:shell_programming.txt?linkonly|Basic Shell Programming}} - Roland Renaud

Remote Access - Michael Richardson

===== February =====

Kernel Modules - Robert P. J. Day

===== January =====

   * {{:ps3_supercomputing_cluster.odp?linkonly|PS3 Supercomputing Cluster}} - Matthew Bastian