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2020 Meeting Presentation Notes

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

Sept 4 online meeting.

John Nash led a discussion of Managing Photo Collections.

Slides: 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.jpgdir2htm-template.zip

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

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

October

November

John Nash will present a short literature review. Slides of “A Linux perspective on the literature of Electronic Election Systems” are 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 here
  • John Nash presented a 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
meetingpresentations2020.txt · Last modified: 2020/12/04 10:04 by jcnash