Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group
Recent Meeting Details
May Meeting: OpenStack Cloud Software
Date: May 2, 2013 at
7 p.m.
Location: Shopify Headquarters
Meeting format:
6:00 to 7:00pm - help for Linux users, including new users
7:00pm to 8:30pm - General Meeting
8:30pm to 9:00pm - Special Interest Groups
Intro to OpenStack
Speaker: Cody SomervilleOpenStack is open source software for building private and public clouds. Originally launched by RackSpace in collaboration with NASA in July 2010, OpenStack has since won support across the IT industry from users, developers, cloud providers, and vendors from around the world.
Learn what cloud computing is, how it is revolutionizing the way we innovate, and how-to deploy your own OpenStack cloud in minutes.
Cody will demonstrate how to deploy the OpenStack development environment in a virtual machine. If you'd like to follow along on your own computer, have a clean install of Ubuntu Server 12.04 or Fedora 16 in a VM ready in advance.
April Meeting: Annual General Meeting
Date: April 4, 2013 at
7 p.m.
Location: Shopify Headquarters
This is our AGM and election of board members.
Last year we planned a number of things for this year, including two new committees.
One committee set up "User Group Connect 2013".
Another met to discuss ways to help new Linux users.
Come out to find out more, and meet more of our members!
There may also be a lightning talk.
March Meeting: Output! One way or another!
Date: March 7, 2013 at
7 p.m.
Location: Shopify Headquarters
Latex > ebook
Speaker: John C. NashLightning talk!
John has been learning about producing E-book output from Latex. We will have a look at what he has found so far.
For instance, does it work perfectly as expected every time?
Are there gotchas?
Knowing John, it hasn't been dull and boring!
Intro to Tiki Wiki
Speaker: Pascal St.-JeanPascal St.-Jean will show us how to use Tiki Wiki.
I am looking forward to a demo of some of the most important features and a fast way to get going with this renowned CMS on Linux, and keep up with security updates.
More info:
February Meeting: Share, Share
Date: February 7, 2013 at
7 p.m.
Location: Shopify Headquarters
This will be a speical Share meeting.
This has two aspects: if you have some hardware you want to get rid of, or "share", please bring it to the meeting. It would also be great if you announced it on the list.
If you have a special feature or software that you have been using, and would like to share with others, please come prepared to show people on your laptop. It would also be great if you announced it on the list.
It would also be great if anyone wants to speak about, or demonstrate, "What's new and cool in Linux", as suggested by Dmitriy on the OCLUG mail list.
Some people will be interested in presenting this on the screen, others will just announce it, or ask the executive present to announce it for you.
The site is noisy, so only small groups at a table will be able to hear you, if you don't use the microphone.
Come on out and share!
January Meeting: Graphical output - newsletters in Linux
Date: January 3, 2013 at
7 p.m.
Location: Shopify Headquarters
We have one presenter and a couple of "invitees". Would you care to show what you do?
My first newsletter (in Linux)
Speaker: Robert EchlinI have created newsletters on computers, with Gestetner, with pasteup of scanned photos, pasteup of pages to get folded page output.
This time, I am using Linux.
This project is not due or complete yet, but I have found Scribus to be capable of what I want to do.
I also used The Gimp for simple processing of images for the newsletter - cut the shape I want (circle, rectangle) - give the image the high DPI I need for print output.
I will be demonstrating my workflow for this task.
I am not using the 'Master Pages" capability of Scribus.
Controlling Distributed Network Computing Client Using D-Bus Signals
Speaker: Aaron WilcoxAaron described how he set up his system to run the Distributed Computing Client only when the screen saver was on.
The client is configured to use the Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) in his system, so it really slowed down the GUI when it was running.
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