See, lots of cool stuff going on. I'd love to hear about both of those. Heck, I think it would be cool if regular FSCK meeting sort of morphed into monthly BarCamps or Unconferences.
My time may be limited, my aunt is in the hospital and my brother (and his family) may be coming to stay with us this weekend. But, I think I could slip away for a bit to do a session or two (at least I hope I can). Jason On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Huan Truong <[email protected]> wrote: > OK — If we have some time left, I can talk in ~10-15 mins about things to do > with electronic devices for fun and profit, like hacking mp3 players, > xboxes, setting up media streaming/converting servers,... > > Btw, I have a pretty high performance nginx server at http://htruong/ > (on-campus only) to play around with high-definition stuff (although the > streaming function for MP4 files doesn't work for now, so I disabled it -- > streaming flv does work). So how to set it up can be a part of the talk, > also. > > - H. > > > > > On Mar 29, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Jason Novinger wrote: > >> Huan, >> >> I bet you'd have something good on video encoding or some such. >> >> I think there are many "techie" people out there, even in different >> fields. I am thinking of physics, business, art, bio, math . . . all >> over the place. They just need to know it is happening. I mean, come >> one, who wouldn't want to know how to encode the latest DVD in MPEG 4 >> Part 10 (h264) at 1080p at 5mbps? Or how bittorrent works? Or how >> the campus network works? I bet, if you get word to folks in IT early, >> they might even be interested. >> >> Just a few thoughts, >> >> Jason >> >> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Huan Truong <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I'd love to listen to you guys, as always. >>> >>> But I'm unsure about non-tech people, though. >>> >>> - H. >>> >>> On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:53 -0500, "Jason Novinger" <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I'd be up for it again. I've been playing some with the java-gnome >>>> bindings, which make it a snap to use GTK2 with Java. Haven't done >>>> anything really impressive yet -- but something like this might give >>>> me a reason to put something together. I would also be happy to do >>>> something with network again, or telephone or coax cable building. >>>> >>>> Anybody else? >>>> >>>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Donald J Bindner <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Geek week is upon us. We had talked tentatively about having a >>>>> BAR conference as an event. I entered a reservation into the >>>>> emspro system for VH1200 from 1:30-4:30 on Saturday. >>>>> >>>>> Is there interest in having a BAR conference? Will people come >>>>> to listen and to give impromptu talks "for geeks?" >>>>> >>>>> I should know Monday that the reservation is in (a 'real person' >>>>> generally calls me to verify). At that point, if people say they >>>>> will come, I'll ask the Facebook group for Geek Week to add our >>>>> event to their calendar. >>>>> >>>>> Don >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Don Bindner <[email protected]> >>>>> >>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> To get off this list, send email to [email protected] >>>>> with Subject: unsubscribe >>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To get off this list, send email to [email protected] >>>> with Subject: unsubscribe >>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To get off this list, send email to [email protected] >>> with Subject: unsubscribe >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> To get off this list, send email to [email protected] >> with Subject: unsubscribe >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
