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Software Freedom Day 9/18: Volunteers Needed!
Posted by Adam Glass on Sunday August 15th, 2010 at 10:41 PM
Software Freedom Day is "a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere! The non-profit organization Software Freedom International coordinates SFD at a global level, providing support, giveaways and a point of collaboration, but volunteer teams around the world organize the local SFD events to have an impact on their own communities."
This year the event will be held on Saturday September 18, and FLUX is going to be part of the celebration!
We have a great location, too: The Alvin Sherman Library is a public / university partnership on the Nova Southeastern University main campus. It's the largest library building in Florida, and we will have a booth in the main lobby! We will have computers running FOSS, a stack of Ubuntu DVDs to hand out, and of course FLUX flyers.
We need volunteers to staff the booth and also to write and maintain a team page for FLUX on the SFD Wiki. We also need to borrow for the day a couple of good fast PCs to show off Open Source software to its best advantage.
A new email list has been created for planning. If you would like to help, please subscribe to the event list. Be sure to click the Archives link from that page to see what's been discussed so far.
FLUX has always tried to spread the word about Linux and Open Source software. SFD fits right in with that. But it won't happen without your help. Please sign onto the list and be part of the celebration!
August 12: Linux Device Driver Primer
Posted by Adam Glass on Wednesday August 4th, 2010 at 10:22 PM
| TOPIC: | Linux Device Driver Primer |
| PRESENTER: | Jeffrey Fortin of Wind River Systems! |
| DATE: | Thursday August 12, 2010 |
| TIME: | 6:30pm Refreshments & Networking |
| 7:00 Presentation begins | |
| LOCATION: | Nova Southeastern University, in our regular room (directions) |
Writing Linux device drivers is easy. Writing one that works is not so easy. This primer will cover device driver basics, Linux device driver facilities along with an example and a demo.
About the Presenter:Jeffrey Fortin - Eastern Director, Industrial and Medical Sector, Wind River Systems, Inc.
Mr. Fortin has been involved in the embedded computing world for over 20 years. He started his career at Raytheon developing combat control software for the US Navy. He has been with Wind River since 2000 starting as a Field Applications Engineer. Today he manages the Field Engineering group within the Industrial and Medical Sector. His personal interests include travel, photography and is an avid runner completing over 15 marathons since 2002. His best time is 3:49:36 at the 2009 Walt Disney World Marathon. Mr. Fortin lives in Orlando with his wife Sherry. They have two daughters and the youngest is now attending USF St. Pete.
Mark your calendar! See you August 12th at Nova Southeastern University!
July 15: VMware
Posted by Adam Glass on Wednesday July 7th, 2010 at 9:19 PM
| TOPIC: | VMWare ESXi 4 Installation |
| PRESENTER: | Carl Couric! |
| DATE: | Thursday July 15, 2010 |
| TIME: | 6:30pm Refreshments & Networking |
| 7:00 Presentation begins | |
| LOCATION: | Nova Southeastern University, in our regular room (directions) |
VMWare allows multiple virtual machines to run all at the same time on one physical computer. Businesses use this to take better advantage of their hardware and to save space in the data center. Individuals can use it to experiment with different operating systems and not worry if they blow something up (in software anyway). Carl will show how to load VMware ESXi 4 on a 64-bit processor server (Note, the server is NOT a door prize :) ). The ESXi 4 is available for free to individuals from VMware. The free version is a great way to get your hands dirty with VMware ESX for free, and to have a really cool server that can run multiple VMs on it!
About the Presenter:Carl has over 29 years of computer experience. His first PC was a PDP-11 running RT-11 in a back closet of a raised floor computer room at Racal-Milgo in Miami when Racal-Milgo Modems were the hot items. His long term work has been mostly in OpenVMS. In late 80s, Carl worked on a few Unix OS for miniframes, like V7M for PDP-11 and Ultrix for MicroVax, when the internet was mostly UUCP connections between computers and email addresses had "!" (called BANG) in them and news groups ruled the internet. But after meeting a young talented Grad Student from Finland (Linus Torvalds) at the 1995 DEC Users Group convention in Washington, D.C. decided to give a new Unix Operation system a look over, the LINUX operating system. Since then, Carl has been working on integration projects between OpenVMS, Linux and that other M$ brands. Currently, Carl is working for Commcare Pharmacy as their Director of IT which uses Linux, Oracle, MySQL, VMware and other Open Source programs to run all critical business requirements for Commcare
Note that we will be meeting the THIRD Thursday of the month instead of our usual second Thursday. So be careful when you ...
...Mark your calendar! See you July 15th at Nova Southeastern University!Slides from One Laptop Per Child by Martin Langhoff
Posted by Adam Glass on Monday June 21st, 2010 at 11:22 PM
Hi all,
Slides and materials from several presentations over the years are available from the FLUX site. The latest addition is Martin Langhoff's June 2010 presentation on the One Laptop Per Child project...
Martin gave a great talk and,passed around some examples of the OLPC laptop, and even dissected one at the end of the meeting. That last part isn't in the slides ... that's why you should show up! Who knows what hardware will get taken apart next month?
We are always seeking volunteers to speak at FLUX meetings. We are fortunate to have speakers lined up for July and August, but it's never too early to plan ahead. If you would like to share something that interests you about Linux or Open Source software, please email adamglass@gmail.com
Thanks again to Martin Langhoff for a great look at the One Laptop Per Child project!
June 17: One Laptop Per Child
Posted by Adam Glass on Wednesday June 2nd, 2010 at 9:30 PM
| TOPIC: | One Laptop Per Child: Laptops, School Servers, Deployment |
| PRESENTER: | Martin Langhoff of OLPC! |
| DATE: | Thursday June 17, 2010 |
| TIME: | 6:30pm Refreshments & Networking |
| 7:00 Presentation begins | |
| LOCATION: | Nova Southeastern University, in our regular room (directions) |
The mission of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every school-age child. Founded by veterans of the MIT Media Lab, OLPC has created the remarkable XO Laptop and begun distributing them to children around the world.
The presentation will give a brief overview of OLPC today, talk about cool hardware OLPC is working on, as well as good hardy hardware OLPC has put in the hands of 1.5 million kids and still cares about. We will hear about great innovations that hit the mark (and, um, lessons learned about others). Also covered will be Sugar, learning and SugarLabs; working with deployment teams; and the XS "School Server" -- a little giant with a Moodle heart.
About the Presenter:Martin Langhoff has the title of Architect at OLPC, but what the title really means is Get It Done. Whether it is drawing pretty high level architecture plans, working with on-the-ground local teams on configuration, hacking on Moodle or getting dirty with OS-level programming.
Note that we will be meeting the THIRD Thursday of the month instead of our usual second Thursday. So be careful when you ...
...Mark your calendar! See you June 17th at Nova Southeastern University!Slides from Kickstart talk by Don Law
Posted by Adam Glass on Monday May 31st, 2010 at 11:07 PM
Hi all,
Slides and materials from several presentations over the years are available from the FLUX site. The latest addition is the May 2010 presentation on Kickstart by Don Law.
Don gave a great talk and did some amazing things with his scripts! We need volunteers for upcoming meetings, including July (stay tuned for the June meeting announcement - meeting will be June 10). If you would like to share your knowledge, send an e-mail to adamglass@gmail.com. Thanks again, Don!
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