Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Presentation pitch

2015-01-02 Thread Ian Ward
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Adam Saunders wrote: > > - recent interesting legal news regarding open-source software > - an overview of copyright, patent, and trademark law issues regarding > open-source > - an overview of the open-source tools I use for my law practice I know I would come to

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Meeeting tonight - Room T117, Wordpress

2012-05-03 Thread Ian Ward
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Rob Echlin wrote: > Hi > I am going to take my laptop with me, with Wordpress installed from the > Ubuntu repo. > > Darcy made a great presentation when he last spoke at OCLUG, and I am looking > forward to another great talk. I'm looking forward to Darcy's talk.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG AGM - discussing change

2012-03-23 Thread Ian Ward
Great discussion so far. Here's my 2 cents: I haven't been out to meetings for some time in part because of the meeting location. As John said, booking a new location is lots of work. When I served on the board I tried and failed to find a good alternate venue. Maybe it's worth revisiting the

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] March/April meeting

2012-02-24 Thread Ian Ward
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Darcy Whyte wrote: > What year are you looking at? > Looks like it was fixed by someone yesterday: http://devel.oclug.on.ca/changeset/562 ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listin

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how does current email protocol support mail receipt verification?

2012-01-06 Thread Ian Ward
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > the lawyer took it one step further, asking whether there was a way > to absolutely *guarantee* that someone you emailed had read that > email. i'm not a mail protocol expert but i thought about it briefly, > then said i didn't think so

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Spam filtering and Web badge

2011-09-16 Thread Ian Ward
Hi Rob, http://devel.oclug.on.ca/changeset/553 I took care of it a couple days ago, and emailed the board members alias, but now I see that that alias is out of date. What *is* the best address for reaching board members? :-) Ian Rob Echlin wrote on 2011-09-16 17:31: > Hi Bill! > Nice to see y

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] just a reminder of tomorrow's inaugural downtown ottawa linux kernel geek-up

2011-05-23 Thread Ian Ward
On 05/23/2011 06:43 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > http://crashcourse.ca/blog/2011/05/inaugural-downtown-ottawa-linux-geek-tues-may-24-5-pm Hi Robert, If you haven't already seen these, Bart gave a couple of relevant talks at the code factory that I recorded screencasts for: http://oclug.on.ca

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] first downtown ottawa linux kernel geek-up next tuesday

2011-05-20 Thread Ian Ward
Robert P. J. Day wrote on 2011-05-20 09:24: > if this takes off, i'll find a place on the net to post ongoing > details of future meetings. remember that the goal here is to select > some specific kernel feature beforehand as a topic, and discuss that > during the geek-up. right now, i'm diggin

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] confusing room numbers on location page

2011-05-03 Thread Ian Ward
This was a new "location" created with the name T304, so I updated the text to match the description, assuming the description was just copied from the other location. On 05/03/2011 05:15 PM, Prof. John C Nash wrote: > Thanks for noting this. I'll ask if anyone knows which of the two we are in

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Ruby On Rails Web Developer

2011-01-21 Thread Ian Ward
Pedro Sanchez wrote on 2011-01-21 14:44: > Hello list, > > Someone close to where I work asked me to post this short-term contract > possibility, two months probably: There have been a couple of these postings this week so I thought I'd point out: http://oclug.on.ca/jobs/ Still works for post

[OCLUG-Tech] Parallel programming book

2011-01-10 Thread Ian Ward
The free PDF book about parallel programming I mentioned at the meeting last week is available here: http://paulmck.livejournal.com/23027.html Ian ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

[OCLUG-Tech] Run for oclug-board

2010-03-17 Thread Ian Ward
As Roland mentioned in his recent email, OCLUG is still eager to have candidates for the board. Currently we have 4 people running for 6 spots. If you're interested in running please email board-memb...@oclug.on.ca. It's a pretty light commitment: a couple hours a month with about half the meeti

[OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG mailing list changes

2010-01-30 Thread Ian Ward
For the past few months the board members have been discussing shutting down a number of mailing lists. Some of the lists have created confusion and caused important messages to not reach their intended targets. Also a number of lists are simply idle, or could be better served with email aliases.

[OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG mailing list changes

2010-01-29 Thread Ian Ward
For the past few months the board members have been discussing shutting down a number of mailing lists. Some of the lists have created confusion and caused important messages to not reach their intended targets. Also a number of lists are simply idle, or could be better served with email aliases.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Re: [oclug-announce] Power strip group purchase

2008-10-28 Thread Ian Ward
in to any meetings as I find I do not have enough knowledge to talk about linux stuff. Still VERY much a beginner :-)) Eric Brackenbury http://www.therecycledteenager.blogspot.com/ 613 839 5350 Carp On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:36 -0400, Ian Ward wrote: OCLUG will be using some member contributions t

[OCLUG-Tech] Re: OCLUG power strips

2008-10-28 Thread Ian Ward
Charles MacDonald wrote: How to these comapre to the ones from Hammond? http://www.hammondmfg.com/pb98.htm You can get those localy from RESET electronics. They are a canadian made product. I don't know. Ordering Canadian would be nice, what are their prices like? Ian _

[OCLUG-Tech] Ottawa area Linux/OSS Job Postings on oclug.on.ca

2008-09-07 Thread Ian Ward
://devel.oclug.on.ca/ If you are a developer and would like to help improve this or any other web site feature, first follow these instructions: http://oclug.on.ca/install/ Then post your changes to the oclug-www mailing list for discussion. Ian Ward

[OCLUG-Tech] [oclug-announce] August Tutorial: Kernel Walkthrough: The Boot Process

2008-08-16 Thread Ian Ward
Date: August 21, 2008 at 7 p.m. Location: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., 2nd floor Speaker: Bart Trojanowski NOTE: there is no need to email to reserve a spot this time, we should have space for everyone. The Linux Kernel Walkthrough sessions aim to give OCLUG members, and visitors, a guided to