Boston Linux & UNIX: January 2015

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Boston Linux Meeting reminder Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - Fotoxx Update

When: January 21, 2015 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Fotoxx Update
Moderator: Dick and Jill Miller

Location: MIT Building E51, Room 325

Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter
Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St.

Summary

Photo editing and photo management made fast, easy, powerful and free

Abstract

Dick and Jill discuss what's new in Fotoxx since the last time they
demonstrated Fotoxx at the Oct, 2011 BLU meeting.

Fotoxx Home Page: http://www.kornelix.com/fotoxx.html
Miller Microcomputer Services: http://www.millermicro.com/

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

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Boston Linux and Unix
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - Fotoxx Update

Friday, January 9, 2015

Fwd: Internet of Things Festival - Thu, Jan 15, 2015 @ 6:30 pm

Next Thursday, January 15, is the third Internet of Things Festival at MIT.

Details at http://www.iotfestival.com/

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We have a special Mini IoT Fest on Thursday, January 15, 2015 at MIT
E51-315 from 6:30 - 9:00 PM - "The Hardware and Software of IoT: A Product
Perspective".

We have two remarkable speakers, both widely recognized for their extensive
industry experience and expertise with technologies related to IoT:

Jason Kridner is Open Platforms Technologist/Evangelist for Texas
Instruments, where he focuses on defining strategy for growing TI's open
platform ecosystem for developers and customers. Jason is the co-founder
and community manager for BeagleBoard.org, designers of BeagleBone Black.
Jason is named on 11 patents and has been programming personal computers
since 1979 as a hobbyist and professional. He worked on the first wave of
MP3 player designs in 1998. Jason will talk about his experiences
developing BeagleBone into an open computing platform that is powered by a
1GHz ARMv7 CPU and 2 200MHz 32-bit microcontrollers with real-time
capabilities.

Peter Hoddie leads Kinoma, an integrated design and engineering team in
Marvell semiconductor. Kinoma creates tools to rapidly prototype new
product ideas for the IoT market. In 2002, Peter co-founded Kinoma to
create a lightweight, portable, media-capable, scriptable software
platform. Kinoma's customers included Palm, Sony, Softbank, and Sling
Media. In 2010, Marvell acquired Kinoma. Prior, Peter founded Generic Media
to simplify digital media publishing and viewing with the first real-time
transcoding server. For a decade previous, Peter was Chief QuickTime
Architect at Apple, recognized with the title of Distinguished Engineer.
While attending Boston University, he was a leader at the Boston Computer
Society where he learned to demonstrate technology and lead volunteers.

This meeting is held in collaboration with BLU.org. The meeting is open to
the public.

Thanks to the generosity of Canonical, we'll have pizza served beginning at
6:30 PM.

Join us in January for speaker presentations, product demonstrations and
Q&A.

*Creativity fused with technology and the internet - together we will
connect things.*

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John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix
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Monday, January 5, 2015

BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Free Culture & Free Software - Weds, Jan 7, 2015

When: Wednesday, January 7, 6:30 - 8:30PM

Location: Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

Directions
http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html
Also easily accessibly by T.

Cost: Free

Notes

1) Please note the location is different from BLU's
standard MIT meeting location.

2) Akamai has generously agreed to provide space
and 'free as in food' for this meeting.
Thank you to our sponsor!
http://www.akamai.com/

Summary

What is free culture and its
relationship to free software? How
are Creative Commons licenses
revolutionizing how we create,
share and collaborate?

Don't miss this talk by Matt Lee of
Creative Commons as he answers
these questions and many more.

The talk breaks down in six
subjects, and Matt will talk about
each one for about two to five
minutes a piece. There's a common
theme, but it's also about you, and
how you can do awesome things too.

The subjects are:
* Free software in general Free
* culture in general FSF/GNU stuff.
* GNU FM and Libre.fm, my projects.
* GNU social and how that all came
* to be. Creative Commons, and
* some of the work Matt is doing
* there.

"If you care about free software or
free culture, go to this talk" –
Matt Lee, yesterday.

More on Matt Lee:
https://creativecommons.org/staff#mattlee

More events and announcements:

Dick Miller on Fotoxx
Weds, Jan 21 at MIT
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-jan

CryptoParty - Secure Yourself Online
Weds, Feb 4 at MIT
http://meetu.ps/2FdLgH

LibrePlanet 2015
Sat & Sun, Mar 21 & 22 at MIT
https://libreplanet.org/2015/
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