====== 2020 Meeting Presentation Notes ======

===== January =====

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===== September =====

Sept 4 online meeting.

John Nash led a discussion of Managing Photo Collections.

Slides: {{ :wiki:presentations:2020:photomanage-linuxottawa202009jn.odp |}}

Perl program to convert all jpegs in a directory into a captioned HTML file using
the comments in jpeg files as the captions, then upload to server with download
options indicated.{{ :wiki:presentations:2020:jpgdir2htm-template.zip |}}

Python program (still under development) to comment and rename jpeg files. A project that was used to learn Python::tkinter programming.{{ :wiki:presentations:2020:jnjpgcom.zip |}}

Note that Dokuwiki prevents upload of .py or .pl files, so I've zipped them.
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===== November =====

John Nash will present a short literature review. Slides of "A Linux perspective on the literature of Electronic Election Systems" are {{ :wiki:presentations:2020:linuxottawa20201105.odp |here}}
===== December =====

===Scripting Night===

We had a number of presentations tonight.We also had about 18 people attending if the attendee count was accurate. There was a lot of interaction and discussion as the various topics were presented.

  * Scott Murphy presented a short overview of what scripting is and a discussion on resources to assist in scripting {{ :wiki:presentations:2020:20201203-scott.pdf |here}}
  * John Nash presented a {{ :wiki:presentations:2020:linuxottawa20201203.pdf |short talk}} on using scanners with Linux and how to deal with some challenges that have recently arisen by scripting a solution
  * Tug Williams presented an entertaining comparison regarding the utility of git vs. subversion and how bash + svn = git for sufficiently specific usage cases, in particular for offline development work.
  * Ian Gorman presented a short testing script for a specialized client server architecture
  * Peter Sjoberg presented a script that leaned heavily on the dialog command.
  * Richard Guy Briggs presented a script used to manipulate his photo and video collection