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 2, 2008
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering at Crepeville restaruant in downtown Davis.

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Monday, September 15, 2008
Bill Kendrick, New Breed Software - "libcrtxy - Draw lines, Make games"

The CRT X-Y library (libcrtxy) is a new creation, built on top of the Simple DirectMedia Library. It's purpose is to let you easily write vector-based games, like those found in arcades in the late 1970s and early 1980s. (Space War, Asteroids, Lunar Lander, Battlezone, etc.) It's meant to be scalable from the highest-end desktop (eventually supporting OpenGL rendering) down to slow embedded systems that lack an FPU.

Note: Location TBA. (Probably Wickson Hall at UC Davis.)

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering at Crepeville restaurant in Davis.

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Monday, October 20, 2008
Michael Ogawa, Visualization & Interface Design Innovation group, UC Davis - "code_swarm"

'code_swarm' is an experiment in organic software visualization — an approach to information visualization that eschews traditional data confinement in space and lets the elements play together in freeform and unpredictable ways.

'code_swarm' shows the history of commits in a software project. A commit happens when a developer makes changes to the code or documents and transfers them into the central project repository. Both developers and files are represented as moving elements. When a developer commits a file, it lights up and flies towards that developer. Files are colored according to their purpose, such as whether they are source code or a document. If files or developers have not been active for a while, they will fade away.

More about the project:
'code_swarm' is open source software, and is available from http://code.google.com/p/codeswarm. It was written using 'Processing', an open source programming language built for the electronic arts and visual design communities.

About the speaker:
Michael Ogawa is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science program at UC Davis. He is a member of VIDI, the Visualization & Interface Design Innovation group. His primary research interest is in Information Visualization, specifically software visualization.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
- "Social Gathering"

Social gathering at Crepeville restaurant in Davis.

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Monday, November 17, 2008
Cathy Malmrose, CEO, ZaReason, Inc. - "Open Source Business Model"

ZaReason is a company in that builds and sells Linux-based computers. The company was founded based on experience the founders had working with a local computer recycling center, building Linux systems for the community.

At this talk Cathy Malmrose, CEO of zaReason and "Linux hardware chick", dives into the many dynamic facets of living in LinuxLand. Explore the tension between business and volunteerism, focusing on the best aspects of both. Take a peek at hardware creation, copyright law, software support, our favorite subject, software as a service. Influenced by the Open Source Business Resource and various luminaries in the IP field, Cathy ends on the evolution of the open source mindset, discussing her upcoming book: The Open Source Child which explores the next gen's approach to product creation.

Give-aways: Cathy will be bringing some give-aways, and holding a pop-quiz.

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