| FOSS Meeting Date (Unless otherwise noted, meetings are 3-6PM on the first Thursday, at the Natick Senior Center.) |
Major
Topics |
| April 5th, 2012 |
TBA |
| March 1st, 2012 |
TBA |
| February 1st, 2012 |
Computer-Generated Art (where not you, but the computer, does the drawing): 1. (Algot Runeman; more styles to follow) Standard graphs (LibreOffice w/pie chart) 2. (Jill and Dick) Maps (NASA Earth Observatory trees, USGS gravity database) 3. (Jill and Dick) How Minard combined those concepts (in 1869, but who's counting?) for Napoleon's disastrous Russian expedition 4. (Jill and Dick) The last night of the Costa Concordia 5. (Jill) Word Clouds (Wordle, Word It Out, Tagxedo) 6. (Jill) Evolvotron (computer draws, human chooses) 7. (Dick) Mandelbrot fractals (Xaos in Ubuntu Software Center) 8. (Dick) 3D fractal animation 9. (Dick; described) Conway's Game of Life (Golly in USC) 10.(Dick; future) Art tools in Fotoxx. |
| January 4th, 2012 |
Some of the Many Graphical
User Interfaces for Linux: Gnome 2, KDE 4, Gnome 3, Unity, Unity 2D
(Dick and Jill Miller, Algot Runeman) |
| December 7th, 2011 |
"Inside Linux, and some FOSS Applications"
(Dick and Jill Miller) LibreOffice Writer LibreOffice Spreadsheet Terminal Window/BASH Shell (help, man, ls, ls -al, lshw, xpenguins) |
| Tuesday,
December 6th, 2011 (7:30PM at St. Andrew's Church, 3 Maple Street, Framingham) |
Gateway Camera Club: "Fotoxx",
by Dick Miller Guests are welcome. |
| November 2nd, 2011 | Meet
Oct. 13th's Ubuntu
Linux 11.10, the Oneiric Ocelet! (Ronald McCollam of Canonical Ltd., parent
company of Ubuntu) Psst! Inside information AND free Live CDs - don't
miss it! |
| Wednesday,
October 19th, 2011 (6:30-9PM at Mass. Institute of Technology, Building E-51, Room 325, Cambridge) |
Extra:
Our FOSS UG (and Dick and Jill Miller, MMS, and Fotoxx) are featured at
the monthly meeting of the Boston Linux &
Unix User Group. (View entire talk.) |
| October
5th, 2011 |
Natick
Senior Center gets a Linux desktop (A. Richard Miller; computer
provided by Milt Gilbert) FOSS UG business cards, proposed button, etc. (designed by Algot Runeman, using Inkscape) Inkscape demo (Algot Runeman, Jill Miller) Fotoxx demo, with "Annotate Image" and new "Straighten Image" tools (A. Richard Miller) |
| Saturday,
September 17th, 2011 (10AM-5PM at Cambridge College) |
Extra:
Our FOSS UG has a table and a talk at the OpenHatch Software
Freedom Day event at Cambridge College, 1000 Mass. Ave. in
Cambridge MA |
| September
7th, 2011 |
Inkscape demo (Algot Runeman) Preview Ubuntu Linux 11.10 Beta-1 (A. Richard Miller) Software Freedom Day, September 17th (A. Richard Miller) |
| August
3rd, 2011 |
20th Anniversary of
Linux, plus this other earth-shaking event: "Seismology software and the March 11th Japan earthquake" (Dr. Alan Kafka, Boston College's Weston Observatory) |
| July 6th, 2011 |
"Scratch
- A programming experience for almost everyone" (Algot Runeman) Demo Handout - PDF - ODT [2] "Can't Catch Me" Car program Scratch file (will only be fully useful if you also have the Lego kit 9580 from Lego Education.) "Taming Ubuntu 11.04" (A. Richard Miller) "Beware On-line Filter Bubbles" (A. Richard Miller) |
| May
4th, 2011 |
"Ubuntu 11.04 arrives, with some
Unity shortfalls" (A. Richard Miller) "KDE4 and Kubuntu" (Algot Runeman) |
| April
6th, 2011 |
"Fotoxx" (A. Richard
Miller) "GNUCash" (Jill Miller) |
| March
2nd, 2011 |
First
meeting of FOSS User Group at the
Natick Senior Center! |
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