Anybody doing anything interesting? We'd love you hear you talk about it. Meetings this semester will be select Thursdays at 7pm. I'm trying to get a CSIC room for every Thursday night so we can schedule a meeting for any Thursday a presenter can make it.
A few ideas on meetings, if anyone would like to step up: -I'd still love someone to come in and do a presentation on the Linux Kernel- maybe a tutorial on writing your own USB device driver or something. I'd also like to see a presentation on some of the new kernel-userspace utilities, like FUSE. -State of the art Linux Gaming. Earlier today I was feeling lazy, so I spent some time browsing freshmeat.net. I was actually pretty impressed with some of the F/OSS games available. I'd like to see a presentation of a few of the games. If some of them are any good, we could do an F/OSS LAN party! Perhaps in concert with an installfest. -Installfest... I assume there is interest in doing an installfest this semester? Is anyone interested in planning and running it? This would also be the place to setup a whole bunch of computers to be put in schools. I'm certainly open to this idea. -Flamewar: Python vs. Ruby. There was some discussion about this at the Mono presentation, and I think it's a good idea. Anyone interested? -Getting started in the F/OSS community. There was some talk on this last semester. Someone could do a presentation on F/OSS etiquette, using CVS, common practices, ect... -Any other ideas? Presentations I could do (if anyone is interested) : -The D Programming Language version 1.0 was recently released. I've been following this language (and using it) for a few years, and it's got some really nice features. Too late to market? Possibly. Anyone interested? -Microcontrollers in Linux (Steve and I know a lot about PIC support- does anyone know anything about ARM and JTAG F/OSS support?) Is anyone else interested? Is anyone interested in a short informal planning meeting? If a few people are interested in stepping up and doing some interesting things this semester, I'd love to get together at Perk later this week to talk about it. Cheers to a good semester, John Demme
