UPCOMING MEETINGS

Unless otherwise noted, our meetings are held on the first Tuesday and third Monday of each month, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Michael Wenk, Bill Kendrick, Ambroff Linden, Scott Miller, Richard Burkhart... and you?, LUGOD - "Social gathering and roundtable discussion: "Android", Google's Linux-based mobile platform"

Social gathering at Crepeville restaurant in downtown Davis, with a roundtable discussion and show-and-tell of various "Android"-based devices: HTC Incredible, myTouch Slide, Nexus One, Samsung Galaxy, G1.

If you have an Android device you'd like to talk about and demo, or are interested in the platform and learning about some of the devices available (or, if you simply want to socialize with other Linux fans), please join us!

Crepeville accepts only cash or check, but has an ATM in back, and various banks are within walking distance. Free WiFi Internet access is available.

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Monday, September 20, 2010
Scott McCreary and Urias McCullough, Haiku Project - "Haiku [TENTATIVE]"

Haiku (Wikipedia entry) is a project to create an open source operating system compatible with BeOS. BeOS was optimized for digital media work and was written to take advantage of modern hardware facilities such as symmetric multiprocessing, pervasive multithreading, preemptive multitasking and a custom 64-bit journaling file system known as BFS. Its GUI was developed on the principles of clarity and a clean, uncluttered design and its API was written in C++ for ease of programming. Though it has POSIX compatibility and access to a command-line interface through Bash, internally it is not a Unix-derived operating system. Haiku aims to be compatible with BeOS at both the source and binary level, allowing software written and compiled for BeOS to compile and run without modification on Haiku.

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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, October 18, 2010
Joe Eagar, Blender Project - "Overcoming repeated failure and attaining success in an open source project"

Joe is a developer with the blender project, spearheading the bmesh project, which is a rewrite of the mesh modeler to allow n-sided polygons and easier, more flexible modeling workflows.

This talk will present a history of the mesh rewrite project, and how the failure of the first two attempts were ultimately good for the project.

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, November 15, 2010
Wes Hardaker - "MythTV open source DVR"

MythTV is a free, open source software digital video recorder (DVR) project. The creators consider it as the ultimate Digital Video Recorder and home media center hub (an open source alternative to Windows Media Center or TiVo). Along with recording and playing back television shows, it can also manage personal photo, video and music collections, work with a home security system, manage NetFlix movie queues, play games, provide weather info and forecasts, and more! It runs on both Linux and Mac OS X.

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, December 20, 2010
Stephen Chin, Lead Developer, WidgetFX - ""WidgetFX" JavaFX-based widget platform [TENTATIVE]"

WidgetFX is a desktop widget platform written in the new JavaFX Script language. It can run widgets written in either JavaFX Script or Java and takes advantage of the latest features in Java SE 6.

Stephen Chin is the lead developer of WidgetFX and JFXtras, utilities and add-ons for JavaFX. He is the co-author of the book Pro JavaFX Platform.

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, January 17, 2011
Mark Terranova, GidgetKitchen.org - "Lucid Lynx- reflections on the good (and not so good): Ubuntu's acceptance into technology's fabric."

Details TBA.

Also: Our 12th anniversary meeting!

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, February 21, 2011
Owen DeLong, Hurricane Electric - "Introduction to IPv6 Socket Programming"

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is an Internet Layer protocol for packet-switched internetworks, meant to succeed the current IPv4 (which will run out of addresses in the near future).

This talk will be an introduction to porting applications from IPv4-only to IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack, and will include working code examples.

About the speaker:
Owen DeLong is an IPv6 Evangelist at Hurricane Electric, the leading IPv6 Provider. He is also a member of the ARIN Advisory Council. He brings over 20 years of experience in TCP/IP networking and UNIX systems administration. In addition, he is also an Open Water SCUBA Instructor, a Commercial Pilot, and holds a level 2 High Power Rocketry certification.

Note: This talk was rescheduled from June 2010.

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, March 21, 2011
John Wojnaroski, Chief Engineer, LFS Technologies. Inc. - "Full Scale Flight Simulators"

LFS Technologies has developed a suite of hardware, electronics, and software that has been integrated with open source projects such as FlightGear flight simulator, JSBSim flight dynamics model, and OpenSceneGraph. The preferred platform is a Linux-based PC with the real-time extensions provided by RTAI/Xenomai.

Both hardware and software are designed to function as an integrated package that provides turn-key operations out of the box while retaining the ability to customize and tailor hardware and software to customer requirements. A 737NG flightdeck simulator was delivered to NASA/Ames in 2008. The Global Observer program at AeroVironment is currently using the electronics to operate a pilot workstation for the air vehicle. LFS developed flight simulators include electro-mechanical devices that provide flight control force loading systems, autopilots, and auto-throttle control systems.

One of LFS's goals is to provide a more flexible and dynamic environment for research organizations and an alternative simulation platform to Microsoft based systems. The software architecture employs object oriented design principles and C++. To that end several licensing options are available that allow the end user to replace LFS developed libraries and modules with in-house products that maximize software efficiencies and speed of execution by direct compilation and linking into an executable binary program.

The architecture employs Linux-based IPCs such as shared memory and UDP network interfaces and task structures and organization that operate on single-CPU PCs and can just as easily run on multi-core machines.

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, April 18, 2011
Joel Bremson, Graduate Student Researcher, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis - "Django web framework"

Django is an open source web application framework, written in Python, which follows the model-view-controller architectural pattern. This talk will include a demonstration of building of a small app and explain the basics of django's MVC implementation. Basic understanding of scripting languages and web development will be assumed.

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, May 16, 2011
Speaker TBA - "Topic TBA"

Speaker and topic TBA.

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering

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Monday, June 20, 2011
Bryan Bell - "Writing a compiler in Haskell and LLVM"

Why would you want to write a compiler? How do Haskell and LLVM make compiler writing easier and less error prone? This presentation will include: 1) A discussion on why compilers are important, 2) A short high level introduction on Haskell and LLVM, and 3) How Haskell and LLVM make it easier to write a compiler.

Haskell is a standardized, general-purpose purely functional programming language, with non-strict semantics and strong static typing. The Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) is a compiler infrastructure, written in C++, which is designed for compile-time, link-time, run-time, and "idle-time" optimization of programs written in arbitrary programming languages. Originally implemented for C/C++, the language-independent design (and the success) of LLVM has since spawned a wide variety of front ends, including Objective-C, Fortran, Ada, Haskell, Java bytecode, Python, Ruby, ActionScript, GLSL, and others. [From Wikipedia]

About the Speaker:
Bryan Bell is a graduate intern at Intel. He received a BS in Mathematics from UC Davis, and is working on a MS in CS at CSU Sacramento. His interests are programming languages, compilers, and computational geometry.

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