LILUG General Meeting - Tuesday, 10 October, 2006
From Lilug
Meeting Summary
This meeting was composed entirely of mini-talks. We had about an hour of group discussion and then the mini-talks started.
Discussions/Announcements
Matt Newhall announced that he would like to give a talk about the Nokia 770 at an upcoming meeting. He also announced that Bart Mallio would like to re-give the talk that he gave on Steganography at Lilug Si-Sig at a general Lilug meeting. Matt Newhall also plans on giving a talk on Nagios at the next Si-Sig meeting. Mark Drago announced that the topic for the next Lilug Dev-Sig meeting will be odd features of programming languages.
Speakers
- Jason Katz gave a demonstration of Frozen-Bubble after a lot of wrestling with his laptop and the projector.
- dotCOMmie did a segment titled 'Intel Bashing' where he discussed the non-open-sourceness of Intel's newest wireless drivers (IPW3945). He discussed the older intel drivers that were open sourced except for the firmware and the newer drivers which also require a closed source user-space daemon. He explained that this goes against Intel's stated position in which they say that they are open source friendly.
- Matt Newhall gave a quick preview of his Nokia 770 talk by showing off his Nokia 770 and answering some questions about it. Matt then branched his talk off and gave a preview of the Nagios talk that he plans on giving at the next Lilug Si-Sig meeting.
- John Teddy gave a talk about Stellarium which is a free software astronomy program. He then gave a quick demo of OGMRip which converts most formats in to open-source friendly codecs like XViD, Vorbis, Theora, etc. He then progressed in to talking about Tor which implements an onion-routing protocol. He's a busy guy.
- John Zabroski gave a talk about Edgy Eft which is the upcoming release of Ubuntu. He gave some information about the init replacement in Edgy Eft called Upstart.
- Adam Martin gave a quick talk about TPM, Trusted Computing and Palladium. He debunked various myths about it and explained the tasks that the various pieces perform.
Raffles
- Enterprise DMZs - Louie
- Ruby on Rails - Lincoln
- Enemy at the Watercooler - Jason Katz
Contributed Notes on Meeting From Others
- none