Blug DotOrg Committee meeting tonight
09/08/2008 at 12:00 AM
Reminder; tonight, Thurs, Sept 11th, from 7pm til 9pm,
at Mark’s, is the regular meeting of Blug’s DotOrg
Committee.
Sept 4th BLUG mtg in Haskell 108a
09/04/2008 at 12:00 AM
The Thurs. September 4th BLUG meeting at BTC from 7pm til 9pm will NOT BE HELD IN D5. It instead WILL BE IN Haskell 108a.
Jakob will be doing a presentation on Drupal.
“Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual, or a community of users, to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.”
See drupal.org for details.
BLUG meeting Tonight Aug 7
08/07/2008 at 12:00 AM
Our Thursday 7pm, tonight, at BTC BLUG meeting
will Not be in room D5,
instead it will be in Haskell 108a.
As John B previously posted,
“I will be doing the presentation this Thursday on the linux LVM.”
“Introduction to the Linux Logical Volume Manager
The logical volume manager (LVM) is a disk abstraction system for Linux.
It provides greater flexibility in managing storage space than the
traditional disk and disk partition approach.
With LVM physical disks are combined into storage pools from which
virtual disk volumes can be created. These virtual volumes can be made
bigger or smaller without needing to repartition the drives. LVM also
provides the ability to take snapshots of volumes while they are in use,
so consistent point in time backups can be made.
I will talk about the basics of the LVM and show examples of adding disk
space to a file system and doing a snapshot backup.”
Bill
Get down with Groovy. A Quick intro.
07/03/2008 at 12:00 AM
Henri will present at our next regular BLUG meeting at BTC, Thursday July 3rd from 7 pm till 9 pm.
Groovy is an agile, dynamic programming language for the Java Virtual
Machine. Groovy includes features found in Python, Ruby and SmallTalk,
but has a syntax similar to the Java programming language.
Groovy features full compatibility with Java code and existing
libraries. From simple scripts to easier Swing desktop apps to full
web applications Groovy is easy to use and easy to read.
Henri will cover the basics of Groovy, a few scripting examples and, if
time permits, a simple web application using the Grails framework.
http://groovy.codehaus.org/
BLUG meeting Thursday June 5th
06/05/2008 at 12:00 AM
Thursday June 5th will be our regular
BLUG meeting at BTC, in room D5, from 7pm til 9pm.
Mark Ashworth has volunteered to present on:
Title: Exporting data as Open Office spreadsheets using Java and Python.
Mark’s Description:
“Design a template doc in Open Office and save it as odt (word processor) or ods (spreadsheet). The result is a zip file that contains content.xml along with a bunch of formatting files, definitions, images etc. You can create new documents on the fly by extracting the contents of the zip file, modifying just content.xml and writing it all back to a new file or output stream.
I’ll show examples in both Java and Python that query a database and insert content to create a new OO spreadsheet or document and compare some of the code side by side. The Java example delivers from a web server and the Python example is a command line utility but the methods are very similar once you get past the difference in language syntax.
One of my motivations for this was to learn some Python so be prepared to look at some code.”
We’ll also have our regular Q&A and Linux in the news time.
BLUG Mtg post LFNW install fest
05/01/2008 at 12:00 AM
Install fest for people who were introduced to Linux at LFNW 2008 and want to put it on their machines. Pass out completed surveys in batches to volunteers for data entry.
2nd to last DotOrg meeting before LinuxFest!
04/17/2008 at 12:00 AM
Very important meeting of BLUG’s DotOrg Committee Thursday, April 17th, at our regular location, from 7 til 9pm. This is the 2nd to last meeting before LinuxFest Northwest! Watch the blug-list for other details.
BLUG Meeting Thursday Apr 3
04/03/2008 at 12:00 AM
The regular meeting of BLUG will be held Thursday Apr 3,from 7pm til 9pm, at BTC in room D5. For directions: http://www.btc.ctc.edu/welcome/CampusDirectory.html
We’ll have our regular Q&A discussion, so bring your questions as none go unanswered.
Adrian Klaver will present on DABO. See: http://dabodev.com/
We will also have some discussion about LFNW-08, which is happening the 26th and 27th of this month.
Blug mtg Feb 7 – OLPC/XO laptop
02/06/2008 at 12:00 AM
OLPC/XO laptop demo. Iain brought his XO laptop to the last org meeting and was asked to do a BTC presentation so other people could see it too. He is currently working with the laptop.org in some capacity. Find out more at the meeting. 7PM in room D5.
BLUG Meeting Dec 6th
12/06/2007 at 12:00 AM
Thursday Dec 6th, 7-9pm, in room D5 at BTC
will be the next regular monthly meeting of BLUG.
Wesley Taylor will facilitate this month’s meeting.
Bring your most useful system administration commands and your
questions about using them to the next BLUG meeting.
We will review the “ten most useful” sysadmin commands and
also look at some GUI’s for some sysadmin commands
and operations.
Much of the time is still open so if you have something you
want to discuss, or ask, or show off, we’ll do that too.