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Mar 20 Meeting: Blender
Posted by Adam Glass on Thursday March 13th, 2008 at 11:57 PM
| TOPIC: | Blender: Free, Open Source 3D Content Creation! |
| PRESENTER: | Sean Novak, 3D Artist and Blender guru! |
| DATE: | Thursday March 20, 2008 (NOTE: 3rd Thursday of the month!) |
| TIME: | 6:30pm Refreshments & Networking |
| 7:00 Presentation begins | |
| LOCATION: | Nova Southeastern University, in our regular room (directions) |
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION:
Blender can do 3D modeling, rendering, animation and more. The presentation will give an overview of the software suite and show some of the cool stuff that has been made with it. Installation will be covered, and then a step-by-step demo of how to make a 3D version of your company logo!
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Sean Novak, FAU Alumni and experienced 3D Artist, started his career as a graphic designer 10 years ago and quickly advanced himself more and more toward the World Wide Web. Some of his art has entered the US Senate as visual aid used by Senator Mandy Dawson, from the state of Florida. His remarkable talent has allowed him to work for many companies from private to public, non-profit, for-profit, as well as educational institutions such FAU Center for Ocean Engineering and the FAU Center for Electronic Communication. Sean continues his advancement by diving in deeply into Blender. His passion, motivation and dedication toward a truly understanding of this application give him the title of Guru in today's world. Today, Sean utilizes his skills and knowledge of Blender to produce state-of-the-art animations for the concept visualization industry and the web. For more information please visit his website at www.snovak.com.
Mark your calendar! Thursday March 21 at Nova Southeastern University!
Feb 21 Meeting: MythTV
Posted by Adam Glass on Monday February 11th, 2008 at 11:47 PM
| TOPIC: | MythTV: Build your own Tivo-like PVR! |
| PRESENTER: | Mick Weiss, longtime FLUX member and Linux guru! |
| DATE: | Thursday February 21, 2008 (NOTE: 3rd Thursday of the month!) |
| TIME: | 6:30pm Refreshments & Networking |
| 7:00 Presentation begins | |
| LOCATION: | Nova Southeastern University, in our regular room (directions) |
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION:
MythTV is a GPL licensed suite of programs that allow you to build the mythical home media convergence box on your own using Open Source software and operating systems.
Using a PC, video capture card and MythTV software, you can record TV shows, pause, rewind, skip commercials and all kinds of cool stuff.
Mick will show a demo of MythTV and talk about hardware and software choices for creating your own system!
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Mick Weiss is a software engineer and Linux guru who has been a FLUX since his high school days. He has contributed to Open Source projects and presented several topics at FLUX meetings.
Mark your calendar! Thursday February 21 at Nova Southeastern University!
January: No meeting
Posted by Adam Glass on Wednesday January 16th, 2008 at 12:03 AM
Hi all, Unfortunately the guest speaker lined up for January was not able to do the presentation.
Fortunately we do have a couple of great topics lined up for the coming months: MythTV in February and Blender in March!
Meanwhile, is there any interest in an informal dinner gathering this month? Some time ago a bunch of us met at an Olive Garden after work and had a pretty good time. Maybe we can do that again, or something like it.
Let's use our old slamspam list to see if we can put something together. If you're interested, please sign onto the list in the next day or two and then we'll start talking about when and where.
One more important item: we need volunteers to speak at future FLUX meetings. We are an all-volunteer group so please consider giving some of your time and sharing some of your knowledge. You don't have to be a guru or a slick public speaker. As mentioned above, we have volunteers for February and March, but that's all. Topics at any level from beginner to advanced are welcome.
See you on the slamspam list!
December: Running a Really Big Data Center
Posted by Adam Glass on Friday December 7th, 2007 at 4:15 AM
| TOPIC: | Running a Really Big Data Center |
| PRESENTER: | Mike Marschall, longtime FLUX member and Yahoo employee! |
| DATE: | MONDAY December 17, 2007 |
| TIME: | 6:30pm Refreshments & Networking |
| 7:00 Presentation begins | |
| LOCATION: | Nova Southeastern University, in our regular room (directions) |
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION:
This talk will cover a wide range of materials from the perspective of a Yahoo! Production Engineer - as a member of a team that is responsible for the production systems generating 90% of Yahoo's revenue. Mike will also talk about what it is like to work at Yahoo!
Procurement
Build-out Automation
Asset Tracking
Automation Tools
Configuration Management
Network Hardware
Systems Hardware
Operating Systems
Application Software
Development
Test
Staging/QA
Production Code Releases
Change Management
Change Tracking
Change Scheduling
Emergency Changes
Problem Tracking
Tracking Software
Problem Resolution Strategies
Least Impact
Automation
Root Causes Analysis
IRC Teaming
Alerting
Trending
Business Continuity Planning
Capacity Planning
System Hardware
Networking Architecture
Application Architecture
Storage
Measurements
Application
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Mike is a long time member of FLUX who has bounced around in the .com world and finally ended up at his dream gig with Yahoo! Search in California.
Mark your calendar! MONDAY December 17 at Nova Southeastern University!
November: Build Your Own Web Browser!
Posted by Adam Glass on Monday November 5th, 2007 at 1:45 AM
| TOPIC: | Building a custom web browser using Mozilla XULRunner |
| PRESENTER: | Dr. Phil Smith, Software Developer and Linux Guru! |
| DATE: | Thursday November 8, 2007 |
| TIME: | 6:30pm Refreshments & Networking |
| 7:00 Presentation begins | |
| LOCATION: | Nova Southeastern University, in our regular room (directions) |
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION:
It has often been stated that the "next" version of Firefox will run under XULRunner. Dr. Phil got tired of waiting and set out to build something that is a lot like Firefox but without some of the Firefox features that personally annoy him, and with some new features that would normally require installing Firefox extensions (which are usually written in XUL). PhilZilla (new name desired) has the ability to do full page zoom (text and graphics) which has not been added yet to Firefox, and auto scrolling, which is not enabled by default in Firefox. F11 enables a "true full screen" browser.
The end result allows using the 'latest' nightly Gecko Runtime Engines with the ability to fall back to more stable versions when the need arises.
Other topics covered:
Core XULRunner application technologies: XUL, JavaScript, SVG, XBL, CSS.
Installing plugins (Flash, Java, Mplayer/VLC) in Mozilla products under Linux.
Strategic direction of Mozilla core products: Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Lightning, and XULRunner.
Demos of other XULRunner applications including clocks, stopwatches, games, Point of Sale, Currency Trading. In theory these applications run identically on Linux, Windows, Mac, and any other platform that someone has been able to build a working XULRunner on.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Originally intending to be an auto designer, "Dr. Phil" obtained a PhD. in Mechanical Engineering, in the process becoming a 'C' programmer doing numerical simulations. Worked with IBM and Fujitsu for the next 15 years, focused on writing drivers for cash registers. Recently assisted S. FL law firms and others migrating from Windows to Linux host/Windows guest VMWare virtualized servers. Deployed Samba, CUPS printing, and other Linux-based solutions in large law firms with essentially zero downtime.
Current interests: Linux advocacy and education, XUL/AJAX/PHP/LAMP/socket programming, Linux/Windows interoperability, developing cross platform Asterisk PBX and financial trading systems, Linux multimedia convergence, PXE imaging.
Mark your calendar! This Thursday evening at Nova Southeastern University!
October: Single Sign On / OpenLDAP
Posted by Adam Glass on Tuesday October 9th, 2007 at 2:49 AM
First of all, many thanks o our friends at JHL Technologies for the fantastic cake at last month's FLUX 10th Anniversary celebration!
This month's presentation will be given by two longtime FLUX members:
Kwan Lowe and Mick Weiss.
| TOPIC: | Single Sign-On / Intro to OpenLDAP! |
| DATE: | Thursday October 11, 2007 (THIS THURSDAY!) |
| TIME: | 6:30pm Refreshments & Networking |
| 7:00 Presentation begins | |
| LOCATION: | Nova Southeastern University, in our regular room (directions) |
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION:
Single Sign On is a buzzword. The technical term for it is centralized authentication. Each person on your network uses one username and password to access many applications, such as e-mail, secure web applications and instant messaging. LDAP is the technology that makes this possible, and OpenLDAP is its Linux implementation.
This talk demonstrates the server and client configuration of OpenLDAP to allow centralized authentication, adding/removing users and deploying an OpenLDAP server. As more physical and virtual machines are deployed across the enterprise, central authentication becomes a necessity, and it might just save your sanity.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Kwan Lowe is a Unix/Linux system administrator.
Mick Weiss is a software developer and network administrator.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR! SEE YOU THIS THURSDAY AT NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY!
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