Short (or long!) informal planning meeting would be good. I'm available anytime before Friday or anytime at all next week.
~bernie PS Do we have a date for installfest yet? ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:33:03 -0500 >From: John Demme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [UM-LINUX] Call for Presentations >To: [email protected] > > 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
