December Meeting: Regular expressions, asterPibx followup, presentation software, and BOFs

Date: December 5, 2013 at 7 p.m.
Location: Shopify Headquarters

This month we have Ian Gorman and Scott Murphy speaking. Ian will be giving a short talk on regular expressions and Scott will be giving a followup to his Raspberry Pi PBX talk and giving a talk on using Free/Open source software for presentations. At this time, we have no BoF items listed.

As per our newer format, we will have a one hour pre-meeting item from 6:00 to 7:00 for people who are new to Linux, have general questions, or wish to help out with people who are just getting started.

Speaker: Ian Gorman

Ian will be giving a short introduction to regular expressions.

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.

Speaker: Scott Murphy

Scott will give a short update on the implementation of the device in production.

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.

Speaker: Scott Murphy

Scott will be giving a talk on non-commercial presentation software. The talk will cover some of the popular tools and some demos as well. The source for the talk will also be made available, so you can examine how to go about generating a presentation without having to dig too deep into the bowels of the tools being discussed. This is not going to be an exhaustive discussion, but an overview of a few tools that he has used.

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.