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2011
October 12th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A-112 (not verified)
Topic: RepRap Open Source 3d Printing
Presenter: Tim Bertram
Blurb: We will be looking at the reprap open source 3d printer. We will talk about the build process and get to see the printer in action.
September 14th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A-112
Topic: TBD
Presenter: TBD
Blurb: Lets try to fix Bills wifi issue, talk about 3d printers, and look at Darrick's Android devices.
August 10th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room O-108
Topic: TBD
Presenter: TBD
Blurb:
July 13th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room O-108
Topic: Get Simple CMS
Presenter: Tim Bertram (and maybe Josh Cowles)
Blurb: A look at the Get Simple, a Content Management System that aims to be simple, easy to use CMS that doesn't rely on a database. We will to a full install, and then dig into it a little further. For those interested I will also have my Arduino in case anybody want to look at it a little more.
June 8th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room O-108
Topic: TBD
Presenter: Tim Bertram
Blurb: Lubuntu - a lightweight ubuntu based distro, Google ChromeOS - Fun with the CR-48 and chrome, Arduino - We can spend time learning how to work with the hardware/software. Sometime after 8:00pm, the Make podcast will be talking to the folks at the Milwaukee Makerspace, I would like to watch that live
May 11th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room O-108
Topic: Arduino
Presenter: Tim Bertram
Blurb: TBD
April 13th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room O-108
Topic: TBD
Presenter: TBD
Blurb: TBD
March 9th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room O-108
Topic: TBD
Presenter: TBD
Blurb: TBD
February 9th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room E-141 DIFFERENT ROOM!!!
Topic: Hopefully Galaxy Tab and MakeBit
Blurb: Providing UPS delivers it, we should get a hands on with a Samsung Galaxy Tab from US Cellular. Also have a short introduction of the new MakeBit Makerspace in Fond du Lac.
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
January 12th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: Hands on with a CR-48
Presenter: TBD
Blurb: TBD
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
2010
December 8th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: TBD
Presenter: TBD
Blurb: TBD
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
November 10th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: TBD
Presenter: TBD
Blurb: TBD
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
October 13th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: TBD
Presenter: TBD
Blurb: TBD
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
September 8th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: TBD
Presenter: TBD
Blurb: TBD
August 11th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: TBD
Presenter: TBD
Blurb: TBD
July 14th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: TBD
Presenter: TBD
Blurb: TBD
June 9th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: "Part 2 of a series of Media Center Series - Mythbuntu"
Presenter: Mike
Blurb:
May 12th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: "Part 1 of a series of Media Center Series"
Presenter: Luke and Tim
Blurb:
2009
December 9th
November 11th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: "Developing Tech Products or Startups With Open Source"
Presenter: Luke
Blurb:
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
October 14th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: "Open Source Router Firmwares"
Presenter: Luke
Blurb: I think we will be talking about some alternative router firmwares and possibly trying to install one of them on a router.
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
July 8th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: "Zabbix"
Presenter: Darrick Hartman
Blurb: ZABBIX is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution.
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
June 10th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: "Netbooks"
Presenter: Mike Moran, Luke Waldron and Maybe Others
Blurb: We will have a couple different netbooks at the meeting and doing some comparisons and pointing out some of the strengths and weaknesses. Please feel free to bring your own netbook and add to the discussions. Everybody is welcomed to come netbook or not. Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
May 13th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: "Drupal"
Presenter: Blake Hall
Blurb: Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
April 8th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: "FOG (A Free Computer Cloning Solution) "
Presenter: Tim Bertram
Blurb: FOG is an open source ghostcast type server that can be used to backup and restore computers over a network. We will also be checking out the upcoming Ubuntu release.
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
Mar 11th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: "Useful and Overlooked Linux Tools"
Presenter: Michael Moran
Blurb: Mike will be doing quick run down of some useful and overlooked linux tools.
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
Feb 11th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: "Neo Freerunner/OpenMoko phone"
Presenter: Rene Horn
Blurb: Rene will be showing off his Neo Freerunner Phone. The Neo is an open phone capable of running multiple linux based operating systems.
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
Jan 14th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: "Living in your own cloud: home based servers and web services"
Presenter: Michael Moran
Blurb: Introduction to home server technology and the neat things you can do, as well as leveraging some remote services.
Bob Waldron is also putting together a networking plan to connect with local Linux users and we will discuss that after the presentation
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
2008
Dec 10th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: "OpenSUSE 11.0"
Presenter: Tim Bertram
Blurb:
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
Nov 12th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: "Ubuntu 8.10"
Presenter: Tim Bertram
Blurb: Discussing and installing the lastest version of Ubuntu 8.10.
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
Oct 8th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: "All that be Craig"
Presenter: Craig Meyer
Blurb:
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
Sept 10th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: "Video and Audio Streaming"
Presenter:
Blurb: We will be taking a look at trying to stream live video and/or audio of the meeting. We hope to come up with a solution that will work for future meetings.
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
August 13th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A202
Topic: "Social Night"
Presenter:
Blurb: We will be having a social night. I believe Karl will also be talking a little bit about MPTC switching from a Linux platform to a Windows platform and why they made that choice
July 9th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A112
Topic: "Quality of Service and Traffic Shaping"
Presenter: Tim Bertram
Blurb: Learn how to tune your Internet connection to get the most out. We will also have a hands on session with eeePC 701 thanks to Milwaukee PC.
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
June 11th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A102 (not the normal room)
Topic: "Social Night"
Presenter: Anybody who attends.
Blurb:Please note the room number change for this meeting.
May 14th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College.
Topic: "Social Night"
Presenter: None
Blurb: Social Night
April 9th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College.
Topic: "Social Night"
Presenter: None
Blurb: Social Night
March 12th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College.
Topic: "Pandora"
Presenter: Neil Mix of Pandora
Blurb: Neil will be speaking on Pandora's OSS usage, and Sever infrastructure. He will also talk about scaling issues that Pandora experienced.
Febuary 13th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A-112
Topic: "Crypto for IT Staff"
Presenter: James Leinweber, WI State Lab of Hygiene
Blurb: Ever wondered how HTTPS or SSH work? Puzzled over the difference between public key cryptography and block ciphers? Worried about MD5 hash collisions invalidating your digital signatures? We'll take you on a tour of basic cryptographic concepts, then use those to understand how things we use routinely work, and finish with some advice on using cryptography wisely. This is an introductory level talk for people who know a tiny bit about computers and network protocols, but know little or nothing about cryptography, and want to become educated consumers. Hardly any math, and nothing beyond high school algebra.
January 9th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A-112
Topic: "Asterisk and/or Astlinux"
Presenter: Darrick Hartman, DJH Solutions, LLC
Blurb:
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
2007
=== December 12th ===6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A-112
Topic: "Free/Libre/Open-Source/Permissive/etc. LICENSING!"
Presenter: Josh (Yoda) Cowles
Blurb: Enter the exciting world of software and media licensing, including the Richard Stallman personality cult, the ostensible license-agnosticism of Linus Torvalds, the legal innovations of Lawrence Lessig, and what it all means for YOU.
This is meant to be a somewhat interesting introduction to/history of this style of licensing. It is not meant to be a highly technical discussion of caselaw - though if anyone is interested in a particular technical application or aspect of licensing, please feel free to e-mail me before the meeting and I will do my best to address it. jmcowles AT gmail DOT com
Pizza and Soda will be available, donations appreciated.
November 14th
6:00PM @ Moraine Park Technical College. Room A-206
THIS IS NOT THE NORMAL MEETING ROOM!!
Topic: "Building tools from source: an introduction"
Presenter: James Leinweber, WI State Lab of Hygiene
Blurb: Have you ever needed to compile something from other people's source code? Wondered what to do with an RPM or Debian source package? Wanted to dip a first toe into that ocean of open source? We'll talk about finding source code, unpacking it, building it, installing it, and managing it. No programming knowledge is necessary. This is a hobbyist level introductory talk; professional software developers typically already know most or all of this.
You can find versions of the talk and handouts at
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/jeleinwe/web/BTS/
October 12
Geek Night - No Topic
September 8
Wubi - Ubuntu installer for Windows
August 8
July 11, 2007
We are having a meeting and key signing party on July 11, 2007. For more details check out the mailing list, and User:Midnightcomm/key signing party.
- Topic: GnuPG, Encryption and digital signatures. Key signing party.
- Date: July 11, 2007
- Time: 6:00 PM - ?
- Location: MPTC Room A-112
Key Signing party
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