Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement
Who: Chris Smith
What: The Transit Appliance Project
Where: Zoom, flawed as it is, link below
When: Thursday, January 6th, 2022 at 7pm
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom
This talk will explore the history and future of the Transit Appliance
project, an open source project which makes use of TriMet and other
public web services to display transit arrivals on fixed location
screens in apartment and office lobbies, cafes, schools and other
community locations. The project is hosted by the non-profit Portland
Transport and currently operates more than 60 screens around the region.
The project relies on Raspberry Pi processors and a variety of cloud
services to provide a minimal cost solution to the display of transit
and micromobility information.
About Chris
Chris Smith is the lead developer of the non-profit, open source Transit
Appliance project.
For two decades his day job was leading web architecture for Xerox. He
serves on the board of Portland Streetcar Inc. and also served for
twelve years on the Portland Planning and Sustainability Commission. His
passion is the intersection of technology and sustainable urban policy.
Returning to Zoom for now
PLUG aims to dogfood free and open source technologies whenever possible
and Jit.si had a good run. It is quirky and very difficult to manage as
a moderator, but it is free software. Recording meetings proved
unworkable but thank you Vincent for spinning up a Jit.si VM during a
meeting *and* removing the watermark. Many colleagues have reported that
web-based Zoom is working better than ever with free and open source
desktop operating systems and for the success of PLUG and my sanity as a
moderator, I need to use the best tool for the job. Please continue to
send your ideas for better tools and I would not rule out moving to a
solution that someone is willing to take ownership of, as Vincent did
with the Jit.si VM.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85249530401?pwd=dWZPTllGRk1udWtVRXB0STZ2VlJXZz09
Meeting ID: 852 4953 0401
Passcode: 8675309
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