Vancouver Linux Users Group

Mon, 16 November 2009 7:30 - 9:00 pm
** BCIT, Bldg. SW1, Room 1021 **
** Same room as last month.

LinuxCon 2009

We don't have a flesh-and-blood speaker for November so we're going to use the technology and do it virtually! I've downloaded a few videos recorded at LinuxCon 2009. We'll hear from Joe Brockmeier, Mark Shuttleworth, and a few other well known Linux luminaries. See you there!

Mon, 19 October 2009 7:30 - 9:00 pm
** BCIT, Bldg. SW1, Room 1021 **
** Same room as last month.

Recall: Data Protection Services
Bob McCartney

Bob McCartney from Recall missed us last month.
So this month he will do a short presentation on Recalls data
protection and information management services.

Assistive Technology in Linux
Alex Jurgensen

Accessibility is one of the biggest and hottest topics on the minds of
small developers. The realm of accessibility exposes a market eager to
get away from the chains of assistive technology venders that charge
high prices and offer very little in terms of return for investments.
Companies such as Apple have led the way to freedom in the past few
years. During this time a movement has begun to bring accessibility to
main stream projects. In a little more than four months since iPhone
had accessibility added, developers have been teaming with delight to
serve the newest edition of their customer base. Likewise, OSS
projects such as Loadstone and Webkit are bringing greater

Mon, 21 September 2009 7:30 - 9:00 pm
BCIT, Bldg. SW1, Room 1021

Recall: Data Protection Services
Bob McCartney

Hackerspaces: Making, Sharing, Hacking and Doing Things
Joe Bowser

Bob McCartney from Recall http://recall.com/ will do a short presentation on Recalls data protection and information management services.

Joe Bowser will then talk about hackerspaces in general and specifically VHS , the Vancouver Hacker Space http://vancouver.hackspace.ca/doku.php. The hackerspace movement is a relatively new movement of collaborative spaces throughout the world. These spaces, called "YMCA for geeks", are places where Makers, Crafters, Hackers and other people who have knowledge to share and projects to do can come together to work on them in a collaborative atmosphere.

As usual no VanLUG meetings are scheduled for July and August. The next season will get underway 21 September 2009.

Vancouver Linux Users Group
http://www.vanlug.bc.ca

Mon, 15 June 2009 7:30 - 9:00 pm
BCIT, Bldg SE6, TELUS Theatre

This month we're getting into some code! Robert Arkiletian, winner of the 2009 VanLUG Dave Michelson Award will introduce us to the Fast Light Tool Kit (FLTK) and the python binding for it, pyFLTK.

Robert Arkiletian has been a teacher for 12 years and is recognized as one of the most knowledgeable GNU/Linux experts working for the Vancouver School Board, frequently sharing his experience to mentor
other teachers.

Robert teaches physics, C++, Python and FLTK GUI programming at Eric Hamber Secondary School in Vancouver. In 2004, Robert began using K12LTSP, the Linux Terminal Server Project version of GNU/Linux, in a computer lab he set up and maintains for his students.

He created the British Columbia Free and Open Source Software in Schools newsgroup to promote the use of GNU/Linux in British Columbia Schools, and for the past two years his computer programming students have earned top honours in Western Canada. Robert is married and has two young children.

In 2005 Robert released the first version of a classroom management program. FL_TeacherTool is written in C++ for K12LTSP GNU/Linux, and allows a teacher to broadcast demonstrations to student computers and