Meetings

Seacoast Linux Users Group Meeting Events

Using the new SLUG Plone Server (Morse Hall room 301, from 2006-01-09 19:00 to 2006-01-09 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

How to use the new SLUG Plone server.

Asterisk Home PBX (UNH Morse Hall conference room 301, from 2006-02-13 19:00 to 2006-02-13 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

Mike Thomas of Computer Associates will demonstrate how to setup a Home PBX using Asterisk@Home.

Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (UNH Morse Hall Conference Room 301, from 2006-03-13 19:00 to 2006-03-13 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

Some tools, documentation links and examples of how to use CSS to transform web content.

Introduction to Python (UNH Morse Hall conference room 301, from 2006-04-10 19:00 to 2006-04-10 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

We'll be exploring a set of slides that gives a good overview of the programming language Python.

Ben on Wiki (UNH Morse Hall conference room 301, from 2006-05-08 19:00 to 2006-05-08 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

For the May meeting of SLUG (NH Seacoast Linux User Group), Ben Scott will be talking about Wiki. He will cover a bit of history, basic usage, talk about a few different popular Wiki software packages, and show how one can use Wiki to edit both the GNHLUG (TWiki) and Wikipedia (MediaWiki) web sites.

Using QtDesigner for Graphic User Interface (GUI) creation (UNH Morse Hall conference room 301, from 2006-06-12 19:00 to 2006-06-12 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

The Qt graphics toolkit from Trolltech comes with an impressive design tool called QtDesigner. This tool allows you to design and test a Graphical User Interfaces (GUI), as well as make modifications after the back end code has been created. Qt is a C++ toolkit, but there are hooks for other languages as well. Python, Perl and Ruby all have Qt Application Programmer Interfaces (API) and can use QtDesigner generated code for both Qt version 3 and 4.

Blogs, what, why and how. (Morse Hall room 301, from 2006-07-10 19:00 to 2006-07-10 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

What's a BLOG? Why should I care? How could I give it a try?

Open topic (UNH Morse Hall conference room 301, from 2006-08-14 19:00 to 2006-08-14 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

Tonight's meeting does not have a formal topic.

Myghty HTML template framework (Morse Hall room 301, from 2006-09-11 19:00 to 2006-09-11 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

SLUG is proud to host Cole "Egon" Tuininga, who will be presenting on the Myghty HTML template framework.

What is This Lojban Thing? (UNH Morse Hall conference room 301, from 2006-10-09 19:00 to 2006-10-09 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

What if the language we speak affects how we think? If that's true, what if we spoke a language that had a basis in logic? Would it lead to more logical thought? "Lojban", a language based on predicate logic with an unambiguous grammar, is the second generation of a language conceived to answer those questions.

Google Earth Talk (UNH Morse Hall conference room 301, from 2006-11-13 19:00 to 2006-11-13 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

The November SLUG meeting will be a demo of what Google Earth can do.

File Carving (UNH Morse Hall conference room 301, from 2007-01-08 19:00 to 2007-01-08 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

Andy Bair will be presenting his "File Carving" talk. (This talk was previously presented at another GNHLUG chapter, and is scheduled to be done at least once more in 2007 at another GNHLUG chapter location.)

MP3 file handling under Linux (UNH Morse Hall conference room 301, from 2007-02-12 19:00 to 2007-02-12 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

It may be a little late for this one, but in case anybody else is just getting started with an MP3 player, we'll be looking at the tools available under Linux.

Profile of a Linux Weany in mid-life crisis. (UNH Morse Hall conference room 301, from 2007-03-12 19:00 to 2007-03-12 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

Given the date (and lack of any better ideas) I decided to have a little fun with this weeks meeting. Each month I share what I'm currently working on in my life with the SLUG group. This month we'll go a little further into my life as I approach the top of the hill.

OpenWrt - LinkSys firmware enhancements (UNH Morse Hall conference room 301, from 2007-04-09 19:00 to 2007-04-09 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

For the April 2007 SLUG/Seacoast/UNH/Durham meeting, Ben Scott will be presenting on OpenWrt and related tools. The focus will be on initial installation and configuration, and a general survey of capabilities, rather than a specific application. A live demo is planned.

PyChart (UNH Morse Hall conference room 301, from 2007-05-14 19:00 to 2007-05-14 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

The topic this month with the charting with Python using PyChart.

Lojban talk — by Robert Anderson — last modified 2007-05-14 19:27

Link to talk from SLUG November 2006.

A look at Picasa (UNH Morse Hall conference room 301, from 2007-06-11 19:00 to 2007-06-11 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

Picasa is Googles photo management offering.

LTSP Internals (Mills Hall 2nd floor lounge area, from 2007-07-09 19:00 to 2007-07-09 20:00) — by Robert Anderson

The SLUG group joined into the FOSSED conference this week on the Durham campus to attend a talk lead by developer Gideon.

InkScape, when bitmaps are not good enough. (UNH Morse Hall conference room 301, from 2007-10-08 19:00 to 2007-10-08 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

InkScape is a 2D structured drawing program, with very powerful built in routines to convert images into structured drawings.

RAID and LVM storage management (Room 301, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham, NH, from 2007-09-10 19:00 to 2007-09-10 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

For the September 2007 SLUG/Seacoast/UNH/Durham meeting, Ben Scott will be speaking on storage management using RAID and LVM.

Panaramic Photo Processing with Linux (UNH Morse Hall Conference room 301, from 2007-11-12 19:00 to 2007-11-12 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

Three cooperative tools that help stitch your individual photos into a single combined image.

UNH Linus talk screening (UNH Morse Hall conference room 301, from 2007-12-10 19:00 to 2007-12-10 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

Linus Torvalds: Architect of the Linux Kernel gave a talk at the University of New Hampshire on January 31, 1996. That talk was captured by a student in the audience. We will be viewing a DVD copy of that talk at the SLUG meeting.

Rockbox (UNH Durham, Morse Hall, Conference Room 301, from 2008-02-11 19:00 to 2008-02-11 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

An open source firmware for many MP3 players.

SLUG MEETING CANCELED (, from 2008-01-14 19:00 to 2008-01-14 19:00) — by Robert Anderson

Due to the all day snow storm, there will be no SLUG meeting tonight.

Rosegarden Midi Sequencer (UNH Morse Hall Conference Room 301, from 2008-03-11 19:00 to 2008-03-11 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

Music composition on Linux? Sure why not.

Enlightenment EVAS GUI canvas. (UNH Durham, Morse Hall conf room 301, from 2008-04-14 19:00 to 2008-04-14 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

Enlightenment Window manager has been dormant for years. What have they been up to all this time? EVAS is part of the answer.

Writing KML using a python Genshi template (UNH Morse Hall Conference Room 301, from 2008-05-12 19:00 to 2008-05-12 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

A Genshi templating example that outputs GoogleEarth KML from python data, which in this case is coming from active APRS transmissions of GPS postion data.

Video editing under Linux (UNH Morse Hall conference room 301, from 2008-06-09 19:00 to 2008-06-09 21:00) — by Robert Anderson

A look at some video software for Linux, with a focus on Cinelerra.