Category Archives: Meetings
Next meeting – December 10th, 2013
We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library. Raspberry Pi Giveaway DOOR PRIZE: We will be giving away one Raspberry Pi computer to one lucky participant. The contest is open to current paid-up members, and you must be present to win. Our topics the meeting include: LaTeX LaTeX is the venerable document preparation system built on top of the TeX typesetting program. It’s incredibly powerful for creating any document from simple memos to … Read More »
Next Meeting – November 2013 MUG Meeting
We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library. OpenBSD OpenBSD is known for incredible security, but that’s not what it’s really about and that’s not what the project exists for. Lucas will present on OpenBSD’s history, its technology, and what drives the community. You’ll learn not only what makes OpenBSD unique, but why you should keep an eye on it even if you would never dream of switching away from your current … Read More »
Next Meeting – October 2013 MUG Meeting
Feature Presentation: Juju Mark writes: “I remember 10 years ago when I discovered installing Mailman using apt-get install mailman. A working mail server in one line. Everything just worked. These days I’m working on a project called Juju that aims to provide an even more powerful tool for deploying and configuring software services. Now you can just type juju deploy casandra, and get a working Casandra server in the cloud; no need to buy a machine, install and configure the … Read More »
Next meeting – September 10th, 2013
We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library. Raspberry Pi Giveaway DOOR PRIZE: We will be giving away one Raspberry Pi computer to one lucky participant. The contest is open to current paid-up members, and you must be present to win. Firefox OS Firefox OS is an effort by the Mozilla Corporation to build a complete, standalone operating system for the open web. It’s built on a minimal Linux distribution that boots directly into a … Read More »
Next meeting – August 13th, 2013
Regular MUG Meeting We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library. REVIEW BOOK: We’ll have a copy of Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (3rd Edition) available for someone to take home and review (courtesy of Addison Wesley). If you’re interested, please attend the meeting and let us know. Planned Topics Include: LDAP LDAP can be quite intimidating for new users due to the sheer scope and a steep learning curve. Craig Barrett will talk … Read More »
Next meeting – July 9th, 2013
July 9th, 2013 Regular MUG Meeting We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library. DOOR PRIZE: We will be giving away one Raspberry Pi computer to one lucky participant. The contest is open to current paid-up members, and you must be present to win. Planned topics include: Benjamin Mako Hill (Wikipedia, remixing content, and learning from past failures to improve online communities) Benjamin Mako Hill is a social scientist, technologist, and activist. … Read More »
Next meeting – June 11th, 2013
June 2013 Regular MUG Meeting We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library. Main Topic: “The global race towards a competitive edge: History & Trends in High Performance Computing and the synergy of Open Source Technologies with HPC” In the last 50 years, computing has seen tremendous changes with a clear impact on our lives today. What is little known however is the fact that a lot of this has been driven by … Read More »
Next Meeting – May 14th, 2013
We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library. Our Topics include: Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized computer that runs Linux for $35. It’s built to use peripherals that many homes or schools have lying around, and it’s got a set of general-purpose I/O pins that come in handy for the kinds of DIY electronics projects made famous by the Arduino and friends. Though initially inspired by the 8-bit … Read More »
Next Meeting – April 9th, 2013
We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library Big Data Speaker: Sharan Kalwani These days one cannot swing a dead cat without hitting the buzz phrase “Big Data”! So what is all this hoopla (or Hadoop) all about really? Many years of technology advances in processing power, cheaper storage, faster I/O capabilities, cheaper memory chips, greater WiFi coverage, widespread mobility have *all* contributed to a vast explosion of information in all shapes … Read More »
Next Meeting – Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Hills Library. Introduction to Ceph As the size and performance requirements of storage systems have increased, system designers have looked to new architectures to facilitate system scalability. Ceph is a fully open source distributed object store, network block device, and file system designed for reliability, performance, and scalability from terabytes to exabytes. This talk will describe Ceph architecture, the goals of the project, and why you … Read More »