December Meeting: 2011-12-08
This is a reminder that the December meeting is scheduled for Thursday, December 8th at Colonnade Pizza on Metcalfe and Gilmore.
No special agenda, I won’t even be there, as I’ll be at LISA’11 in Boston. It is likely I’ll see Dru while I’m there, so I’ll say “Hi” from the group.
Scott
[ocbug] FreeBSD wallpaper
In case you missed it
http://pcbsd.org/get-it/artwork/freebsd/wallpaper
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November meeting was a success
Well, we had three people show up, so that makes it much more of a success than the October meeting.
One of the items discussed was the web site paper.li and the self-publishing it allows. I’ll be using it as part of the @ocbug twitter feed that I’m planning on starting as a regular part of this group. Hopefully I’ll be a little more regular with tweets than posts.
I also have not yet seen any posts to the mailing list get published, so here’s hoping that starts assisting the population of the site.
In other news, I have downloaded all of the old posts from the original ocuug site and will be adding them to this site as soon as I get a chance to make the database insertion script. I have done it before, so I know it works properly. In a previous post, I mentioned I’ll be tagging the posts as “OCUUG Archive”. The old site is no longer a CMS site, but rather a static site that has a couple of pages and references this site now. It’s almost a year since the change and I am finally getting around to the housekeeping that should have been done many months ago.
November Meeting: Thursday, Nov 10, 2011
This Thursday evening at Cafe Colonnade on Metcalfe and Gilmore, 18:00
No special topics, maybe some discussion on the upcoming release and that mini install we were considering.
For the hardware collectors, I have a few spare parts I’ll be bringing along if anyone is interested. I would prefer to give away some before I drop them off for recycling. There is also a Toshiba T6400 “laptop” in fully operational condition. Requires 120v to run, plasma display.
I think I have configured the website to automatically post mailing list entries for those who don’t do the mailing list thing. We’ll see how that works out.
August followup…
We had a slightly better than normal turnout due to a couple of unexpected arrivals. This should happen more often.
As usual, the conversation was all over the map – Scotch tasting, GPL vs. BSD licensing, Creative Commons, old hardware, OS religious wars, etc. All said, a good evening.
We did decide on the next mini-install day, we are considering either October 15 or 16 (that is the weekend after Thanksgiving for us Canadians) and we will be looking at the current FreeBSD and PC-BSD for that event. The OS images will be available, as well as network connectivity and hopefully we will be live on IRC while we are doing it. I will warn in advance that if you wish to do a USB install, you should create your USB install device in advance, as dumping the full image to a USB stick is a very slow process.