When: Wednesday, December 2, 6:30 - 8:30PM
Location
Akamai, 150 Broadway (8 Cambridge Center), Cambridge, MA
Directions
http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html
Also easily accessibly by T.
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/
3) RSVP is not required, but
helps me plan food. You can
RSVP by emailing me or
RSVP'ing on Meetup.com:
http://meetu.ps/2MwKjr
Summary
Curious about Bitcoin? Already
using Bitcoin and want to
learn more or meet other users
of the currency? We are
delighted to have Albert
Willis as our presenter for
this exciting topic.
About BitCoin
https://bitcoin.org/en/
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Monday, November 23, 2015
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, November 18, 2015 - OSS Digital Photography Workflow
When: November 18, 2015 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: OSS Digital Photography Workflow
Moderator: Chistoph Doerbeck
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 325
*NOTE: Room 325 not 335
### Please note that Wadsworth St. is now open ###
Summary
Photo management and post-processing with digiKam and Gimp
Abstract
Example of digital asset management from camera to print. This session
will walk through several opensource tools to demonstrate:
downloads from your digital device
image/asset management
batch image processing
photo processing/editing
We will also cover the basics of modern digital photography to better
understand what can be done in software vs. behind the lens.
Primary tools for demonstration & discussion will be:
rapidphotodownloader
Digikam
Gimp
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/
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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Topic: OSS Digital Photography Workflow
Moderator: Chistoph Doerbeck
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 325
*NOTE: Room 325 not 335
### Please note that Wadsworth St. is now open ###
Summary
Photo management and post-processing with digiKam and Gimp
Abstract
Example of digital asset management from camera to print. This session
will walk through several opensource tools to demonstrate:
downloads from your digital device
image/asset management
batch image processing
photo processing/editing
We will also cover the basics of modern digital photography to better
understand what can be done in software vs. behind the lens.
Primary tools for demonstration & discussion will be:
rapidphotodownloader
Digikam
Gimp
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/
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, November 18, 2015 - Digital Photo Management and Post-Processing
When: November 18, 2015 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Digital Photo Management and Post-Processing
Moderator: Chistoph Doerbeck
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 335
### Please note that Wadsworth St. is now open ###
Summary
Photo management and post-processing with digiKam and Gimp
Abstract
TBD
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/
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux@gmail.com>
Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org
PGP key id:B7F14F2F
PGP Key fingerprint: D937 A424 4836 E052 2E1B 8DC6 24D7 000F B7F1 4F2F
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Topic: Digital Photo Management and Post-Processing
Moderator: Chistoph Doerbeck
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 335
### Please note that Wadsworth St. is now open ###
Summary
Photo management and post-processing with digiKam and Gimp
Abstract
TBD
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/
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux@gmail.com>
Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org
PGP key id:B7F14F2F
PGP Key fingerprint: D937 A424 4836 E052 2E1B 8DC6 24D7 000F B7F1 4F2F
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Friday, October 30, 2015
BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Emacs - Weds, Nov 4, 2015
When: Wednesday, November 4, 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.
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/
3) RSVP is not required, but
helps me plan food. You can
RSVP by emailing me or
RSVP'ing on Meetup.com:
http://meetu.ps/2MwKjr
Summary
Whether you live in Emacs or
think it is an icecream store,
please join use for this
introduction of Emacs and
ensuing discussion. We are
pleased to have Aaron Bello of
Hosttor as our speaker.
About Emacs
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/
About Aaron Bello
Aaron Bello is an engineer,
entrepreneur and a computer
programmer. He is the founder
and CEO of Hosttor Inc., a
technology and consulting
company based in Boston,
Massachusetts. He has work on
various projects with
universities, governments,
corporations and
organizations.
Aaron started his IT journey
at a local computer workshop
in 1998. When he was in
university, he developed an
interest in programming
languages after taking BASIC,
COBOL, Fortran, Pascal, C and
C++, VB and other classes.
How Aaron Uses Emacs
Aaron now uses and lives in
GNU Emacs daily for note
taking, to-do lists, time
tracking, chat on IRC,
twitter, creating documents
with LaTex and org-mode,
checking mail, news, RSS
feeds, writing article and
posting to PBN, playing chess,
developing and managing all
websites projects with HTML,
CSS, PHP, JS, Python, Django,
API, SSH, FTP, SCP, Drupal,
Wordpress, Joomla, Vagrant,
Web-servers and many more.
More Upcoming Meetings
Digital Photo Management
Nov 18 at MIT
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-nov
Bit Coin Introduction
Dec 2 at Akamai
http://meetu.ps/2MwJBD
<http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-ifest5>
Linux InstallFest LVIII
Dec 5 at MIT
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-ifest58
<http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-mar>
<https://libreplanet.org/2015/>
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Location: Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA
Directions
http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html
Also easily accessibly by T.
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/
3) RSVP is not required, but
helps me plan food. You can
RSVP by emailing me or
RSVP'ing on Meetup.com:
http://meetu.ps/2MwKjr
Summary
Whether you live in Emacs or
think it is an icecream store,
please join use for this
introduction of Emacs and
ensuing discussion. We are
pleased to have Aaron Bello of
Hosttor as our speaker.
About Emacs
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/
About Aaron Bello
Aaron Bello is an engineer,
entrepreneur and a computer
programmer. He is the founder
and CEO of Hosttor Inc., a
technology and consulting
company based in Boston,
Massachusetts. He has work on
various projects with
universities, governments,
corporations and
organizations.
Aaron started his IT journey
at a local computer workshop
in 1998. When he was in
university, he developed an
interest in programming
languages after taking BASIC,
COBOL, Fortran, Pascal, C and
C++, VB and other classes.
How Aaron Uses Emacs
Aaron now uses and lives in
GNU Emacs daily for note
taking, to-do lists, time
tracking, chat on IRC,
twitter, creating documents
with LaTex and org-mode,
checking mail, news, RSS
feeds, writing article and
posting to PBN, playing chess,
developing and managing all
websites projects with HTML,
CSS, PHP, JS, Python, Django,
API, SSH, FTP, SCP, Drupal,
Wordpress, Joomla, Vagrant,
Web-servers and many more.
More Upcoming Meetings
Digital Photo Management
Nov 18 at MIT
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-nov
Bit Coin Introduction
Dec 2 at Akamai
http://meetu.ps/2MwJBD
<http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-ifest5>
Linux InstallFest LVIII
Dec 5 at MIT
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-ifest58
<http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-mar>
<https://libreplanet.org/2015/>
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015
2nd Live stream link - BLU meeting 2015-10-21
The ne live stream link is at http://youtu.be/phCD02p1Zdk
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Boston Linux Meeting reminder, tomorrow Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - MooseFS
When: October 21, 2015 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: MooseFS
Moderator: Krzysztof Kielak
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 335
### Please note that Wadsworth St. is now open. But there still are
### detour signs.
Summary
A discussion on distributed filesystems and MooseFS
Abstract
Krzysztof discusses the concept of Software Defined Storage, reviews the
architecture and implementation of MooseFS, and gives a live system demo.
MooseFS Home Page: http://www.moosefs.org/
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/
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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Topic: MooseFS
Moderator: Krzysztof Kielak
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 335
### Please note that Wadsworth St. is now open. But there still are
### detour signs.
Summary
A discussion on distributed filesystems and MooseFS
Abstract
Krzysztof discusses the concept of Software Defined Storage, reviews the
architecture and implementation of MooseFS, and gives a live system demo.
MooseFS Home Page: http://www.moosefs.org/
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/
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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Friday, October 16, 2015
Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - MooseFS
When: October 21, 2015 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: MooseFS
Moderator: Krzysztof Kielak
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 335
### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed.
### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will be
### 2-way during construction. Take a right onto Ames St and another
### right onto Amherst St.
### There is a report that it may be open, but the detour signs are
### still posted.
Summary
A discussion on distributed filesystems and MooseFS
Abstract
Krzysztof discusses the concept of Software Defined Storage, reviews the
architecture and implementation of MooseFS, and gives a live system demo.
MooseFS Home Page: http://www.moosefs.org/
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/
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
_______________________________________________
Announce mailing list
Announce@blu.org
http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/announce
Topic: MooseFS
Moderator: Krzysztof Kielak
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 335
### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed.
### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will be
### 2-way during construction. Take a right onto Ames St and another
### right onto Amherst St.
### There is a report that it may be open, but the detour signs are
### still posted.
Summary
A discussion on distributed filesystems and MooseFS
Abstract
Krzysztof discusses the concept of Software Defined Storage, reviews the
architecture and implementation of MooseFS, and gives a live system demo.
MooseFS Home Page: http://www.moosefs.org/
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/
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id:3BC1EB90
PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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