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Less than 24 hours left to register for CPOSC

Tux — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:59:55 +0000

One final reminder… registration for the Central PA Open Source Conference ends tonight at midnight. If you haven’t registered yet, now is your last chance. :)

For full details about the conference, check out www.cposc.org!

OS X presentation slides

John — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:24:53 +0000

Here’s a link to Lon’s slides from Tuesday night (PDF):

Enjoy!

BSD night at CPLUG

John — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:41:33 +0000

We’re going to be exploring a bit of the BSD world at tonight’s meeting with two talks.

In the first talk, Brian will be going over his first impressions of OpenBSD 4.5.

Lon will be doing the second talk, going into both the history and usage of Apple’s OS X operating system.

See you tonight at 6:30 PM!

Recent CPLUG meeting topics

John — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:20:28 +0000

In July the meeting topic was “Bringing best practices to the worst language: continuous integration for PHP”. Mark talked about the setup and use of Continuum, PHP-Unit, and Selenium for testing PHP applications.

The speaker for the August meeting was Seth, talking about Gnome-Do and KDE tips and tricks.

Meetings are always on the second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 PM. See you at the next one!

Special guest at the next meeting

John — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:28:05 +0000

There will be a special guest speaker at the June meeting! The topic will be “Building Highly Available systems from unreliable components” by Dennis Gerasimov.

The presentation will give a brief introduction to the concepts of availability, reliability, the use of redundancy and monitoring to improve the availability. An overview of hardware and network architecture for building highly availably systems will be followed by discussion of various methods to achieve high availability using open source software: Linux-HA for monitoring and fail over, several methods of achieving HA with Apache, MySQL replication and shared cluster storage.

See you then!

Hardware hacking with Arduino

John — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:34:21 +0000

Tonight’s talk was on hardware hacking, physical computing, and the Arduino microcontroller platform. The slides are now online if you want to check them out.

The next meeting will be on May 12, 2009.

Magento and LimeSurvey

Tux — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:39:01 +0000

BTW, there were two talks at meeting on March 10. The first one was about PHP survey software called LimeSurvey, presented by Dennis. The second talk was about the Magento e-commerce application and VirtualBox, presented by Bob.

The next meeting will be tomorrow, April 14, at ITT. Check the mailing list for details!

January meeting

John — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:05:27 +0000

The January CPLUG meeting was held on January 13, 2009. We had two topics:

10 Ubuntu Tips and Something That Drives Me Batty: Eric did a talk that went into what he uses on his desktop system and tweaks he made to get it all working the way he likes.
Open Source in Africa: Mark talked about his organization and how they’re working with various groups in Africa to get various Open Source solutions setup.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, February 10, 2009.

October meeting

John — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:12:42 +0000

We didn’t have a formal meeting with presentations in October due to CPOSC being the same month. Although we did meet at ITT to chat and allow some of the speakers a chance to test out their hardware with the projectors.

The next meeting will be November 11, 2008.