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Short Topics and BoF
February Meeting: Short Topics and BoF
Date: February 5, 2015 at 6:30 p.m.
Location: Rosemount Branch, Ottawa Public Library
This month we will be having a couple of short topic items, kind of like a lightning talk night, followed by an open BoF session. Feel free to post potential topics to the mailing list which you can find on the OCLUG website main page.
Pre-meeting:
There will be a one hour pre-meeting item from 17:30 to 18:30 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 and possibly the BoF, 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 online slip generator available.
What is Tarsnap?
Speaker: Scott Murphy
Tarsnap is a secure online backup service for BSD, Linux, OS X, Minix, OpenIndiana, Cygwin, and probably many other UNIX-like operating systems. The Tarsnap client code provides a flexible and powerful command-line interface which can be used directly or via shell scripts. Scott will be giving a short talk on the tool and why you might want to use it.
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.
Introduction to Calibre
Speaker: Ian Gorman
calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. Ian will be giving a short discussion on the tool and some usage cases.
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.
