Linux Ottawa

Meeting Announcement Thursday January 7, 2021 Venue Virtual - via Jitsi Meeting Agenda Discussions The first part of the meeting will be a getting started stream as we expect there are a number of people who really don’t know how to get started and as a result, can’t even formulate what they want to ask since they are not sufficiently familiar with the system to do so. In order to provide a jump start, we are going to take a few people who are “New to Linux” through picking a distro from a very small set (to keep solutions similar), get them to install it, and them get them comfortable with using it. [Read More]

Meeting Announcement Thursday December 3, 2020 Venue Virtual - via Jitsi Meeting Agenda Discussions This month is the annual scripting talk/open discussion. We have at least three items lined up and are hoping for some scripting items from the general membership, so feel free to volunteer a pet script or a scripting question. Scripting is a pretty open topic, not just limited to shells, but any scripting language is fair game. [Read More]

Meeting Announcement Thursday November 5, 2020 Venue Virtual - via Jitsi Meeting Agenda Discussions This month we have three short talks on the topic of e-voting. The first will be from John on e-voting systems thenselves. The second from Scott on experiences with a specific evoting system. The third will be from Tug on open vs. closed source e-voting systems. Discussion and questions welcome. As a reminder, we have scheduled a scripting talk for the December meeting for the past couple of years and we intend to continue the tradition, so if anyone is interested in doing a short ~5 minute talk on some scripting aspect, feel free to let the secretary know that you are interested so we can line them up. [Read More]

Meeting Announcement Thursday October 1, 2020 Venue Virtual - via Jitsi Meeting Agenda Discussions This month we have a talk from Scott Murphy on firewalls. This will be a two part talk, the first being hardware for the purpose of acting as a firewall and the second will be on the linux firewall itself. This will not be a deep dive on firewalls, but rather a discussion on hardware options and a short usage case that highlights some of the fun in the current firewalld implementation which should be at least mildly entertaining. [Read More]

Meeting Announcement Thursday August 6, 2020 Venue Virtual - via Jitsi Meeting Agenda Discussions This month we have a talk from John Nash on Linux Photo Management. John will suggest a number of tools for managing photo collections. Photo collections have different characteristics and purposes, so different tools may be needed. Unfortunately, there are many glitches or omissions, or simply unsuitable interfaces. The presenter has even developed one tool himself to ease the task of commenting and renaming photos. [Read More]

Meeting Announcement Thursday August 6, 2020 Venue Virtual - via Jitsi Meeting Agenda Discussions This month we have a talk/discussion led by Ed Hong on the issues and workflow involved in working from home, particularly under conditions of the pandemic. In contrast to most of our meetings, this one is about strategy more than tactics, about social interaction rather than software details. Meeting Details: The meeting URL and code words should be emailed around 18:30 so there is a potential for some social time prior to getting started. [Read More]