October 14th 2014 Michigan!/usr/group meeting – Raspberry Pi and OwnCloud

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October 14th, 2014 MUG Meeting

 Registration is closed for this event
Regular MUG Meeting

We meet at 6:30pn the 2nd Tuesday of the Month at the Farmington Community Library.

The Uneddited Video is at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v_M6OmuOBU 

 

Raspberry Pi Model B+ package giveaway

This meeting we'll be giving away two Raspberry Pi Model B+ packages. This is the latest revision of the popular Raspberry Pi computer.

The grand prize is a complete XBMC-ready Raspberry Pi Model B+ with SD card, power supply, case, and software. The runner-up prize is the bare Raspberry Pi Model B+ board.

Both prize packages include a copy of O'Reilly's Getting Started With Sensors book provided to us by our good friends at O'Reilly books. This book is chock-full of advice and how-to tips on using simple sensors with both the Arduino and Raspberry Pi machines.

You must be present to win.

 

Topics for the October 14th, 2014 meeting include:

Waiter! There's a Python in my Raspberry Pi!

It seems like everyone has a Raspberry Pi or two sitting around these days, but so few people are actually doing anything with them. At this meeting, Ben Rousch will talk about using the popular and easy to learn Python programming language on the Raspberry Pi. He'll start by helping you bring your Raspberry Pi up to date, then he'll show you some handy Python modules for working with the camera and the GPIO ports. By the end of the talk, you should be ready to take the first steps towards creating your own Python-based Raspberry Pi project.

Ben Rousch is a serial user group organizer and an IT department in Grand Rapids, MI. In his free time, he usually fiddles with unusual combinations of Python, Android, and Linux. However, lately, the blinkenlights have called him to also explore the embedded space.

Notes for Ben's presentation and the source files for his scripts are at :   https://github.com/brousch/rpi_python_demo  

 

OwnCloud

Cloud services have become the norm, and file backup and syncing is one of the most common cloud services. Tony Bemus will show how everyone from hobbiests to corporations can run their own cloud services using OwnCloud. OwnCloud is a free and open source project that allows you to do file syncing from both mobile and desktop, Document collaboration, file sharing, and 16 other features. Join the MUG meeting as Tony demonstrates how to setup your very own OwnCloud service! More at www.owncloud.org 

Plus we'll discuss the latest news (including the Shellshock Bash shell bug), jobs looking for people / people looking for jobs, and much much more.

Hope yo see you there!

When
October 14th, 2014 from  6:30 PM to  8:45 PM
Location
32737 W 12 Mile Rd
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
United States
Contact
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September 9th, 2014 MUG Meeting

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We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library.

Topics for the September 9th, 2014 meeting include:

Imagemagick

Ever needed to crop, resize, color-correct, or convert an image from one format to another? That’s a simple operation for something like The GIMP. But What about 10 images? 50 images? 5,000 images? That’s a lot of photos. Wouldn’t it be nice to script that up somehow? Imagemagick is a set of utilities to convert, identify, mogrify, composite, compare, stream, display, animate, import, or “conjure” your images. Jim McQuillan and Tony Bemus will talk about how they use Imagemagick to do their heavy-duty image processing. You’ll never look at your image processing the same way again.

VASSAL

Many of the early computer games were designed to emulate board games. Games like Chess, Go, and Reversi are popular board games that have computer opponents. But what about the latest renaissance in board gaming? What’s the best way to play games like Ascension, Through the Ages, Dominant Species, and more? The VASSAL Engine is not only an open source way to play board games locally or online, but it’s also a way to port games to be played on the computer. Craig Maloney will give a brief introduction to this innovative and fun engine for board gaming, and will introduce some games that you can have fun playing using VASSAL.

Plus we’ll have our usual features (Jobs Looking For People, People Looking for Jobs, news and events), and much much more. Hope to see you there!

August 12th, 2014 MUG Meeting

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We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library.

Topics for the August 12th, 2014 meeting include:

Sublime Text

Few topics spark more heated debate for developers than the choice of editor. (Witness the countless bloodshed in the on-going Emacs vs vi wars.) In the wake of these battles of editor preference Sublime Text emerges with the simple goal of becoming “…the editor you’ll fall in love with” Sublime Text is a cross-platform text editor, programmable in Python with many powerful built-in features and many more add-ons to smooth programming in all your favorite languages.  Wolf will show both built-in features and favorite add-ons so you know whether to give Sublime Text a try. Will love finally reign in the editor wars? Come and find out!

Wolf is a long-time software engineer and two-year user of Sublime Text. His list of projects include Mozilla and Sourceforge and is one of the few developers with his own IMDb page.

Commands-in-depth: Rsync

This month we launch a brand-new series looking into comands-in-depth. The first command we’ll detail is the workhorse command rsync. Rsync is quite simply the most efficient and fast way of ensuring large files are transferred safely between devices. Craig Maloney and JIm McQuillan will talk about basic functionality with rsync, when to use rsync (hint: more than you are now) and highlight some advanced usage. Come explore this powerful command and learn some new tricks along the way.

Plus we’ll have our usual features (Jobs Looking For People, People Looking for Jobs, news and events), and much much more. Hope to see you there!

(Learn more and register for the August 2014 meeting, or give us feedback about the meeting. Additional material for the meeting is available from the videos / notes page)

July 8th, 2014 MUG Meeting

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We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library.

Topics this month include:

The Go Programming Language

You might have heard about Go the programming language as the laguage developed at Google, but probably haven’t looked much further than Wikipedia for what the Go Language is all about. You might not have known that it was initially developed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson, is based loosely on C but with many features of modern languages like garbage collection and some dynamic typing capabilities. You also may not know that many projects such as Docker and Canonical’s own Juju project are using Go. Mark Ramm-Christensen will talk about the Go programming language and highlight Canonical’s usage and involvement with Go. If you’ve ever heard Mark Ramm-Christensen speak you’ll know this promises to be an event you won’t want to miss.

Mark Ramm-Christensen is the Engineering Manager for Canonical, and a long-time contributor to not only MUG but the open-source community as a whole.

Plus we’ll have our usual features (Jobs Looking For People, People Looking for Jobs, news and events), and much much more.

Slides for the presentation.

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June 10th 2014 Regular MUG Meeting

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We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library.

Topics include:

PGP / GPG Encryption

 With the recent privacy concerns Tony Bemus wants to let everyone know about GnuPG and how to use GPG to securely communicate and protect your files. He will talk about the history of PGP and GPG, the web of trust, the Hows and Whys of file encryption, and secure communication through email encryption and signatures.

Slides for the presentation are available here:

http://bemushosting.com/present/PGP-GPG_Pen14.html

 

Shell Programming

Scott Moser is a technical lead on the Ubuntu Server and Cloud team at Canonical. He works on cloud-like things such as cloud-init, Ubuntu cloud images, OpenStack and cirrOS. He has more experience with programming in ‘sh’ than you probably care to hear about.

The talk on shell scripting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^programming will discuss ways to make your shell scripts less brittle, and more performant. And will also try to convince you that shell still has its place.Plus we’ll have our usual features (Jobs Looking For People, People Looking for Jobs, news and events), and much much more.

Hope to see you there!

May 13th 2014 Regular MUG Meeting

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We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library.

Topics for this meeting include:

 Growing an Open Source Project

“If you build it, they will come” except not really. Rick describes the highs and lows of running an open source project over four years. From the awesomeness of the patch from an outsider to the feeble attempts at landing one small commit a day he’ll bring an in the trenches view on building a community, doing what you love, and the advantages of having your own pet project out there in the wild.

Rick is the creator of Bookie, an open source bookmark management web application in his spare time, and employee of Canonical doing more OSS development during his office time.

The State of Linux Gaming, 2014 edition

In 2010 Craig discussed the current state of Linux Gaming. Time passes and the Linux Gaming environment is a far different place. Craig will give a brief overview of what caused the dramatic change in the Linux Gaming environment and demo some of the more interesting games available for Linux. Come find out what the Penguin is playing today.

Plus we’ll have our usual features (Jobs Looking For People, People Looking for Jobs, news and events), and much much more.

Hope to see you there!