This is going to be more of an interactive discussion meeting. The goal
is to have a list of topics and get everyone involved in sharing some
knowledge. I’ll post a followup with the topic list and we will try to
schedule in the right people and topics over the rest of the year.
In addition, we have a couple of items:
- A server room environmental monitor prototype
- BSDCan is next month and we will be swapping the night of our
meetings
- On our regular meeting night in May, there will be a puppet meetup
at the University of Ottawa. Feel free to attend. The location is on
the
BSDCan website.
I am trying out a different event manager and while I think it is better
than the prior one, it doesn’t post an article on the site. I currently
need to add an item manually and the RSS feed does not see the calendar
events directly. I don’t think there are too many people who look at the
RSS feed, but you never know. I’ll have to ask about it at the meeting.
Git for sysadmins
Talking about git: what is it, what are the components, how do you make
them go?
Also a look at gitk and its capabilities, looking at a large codebase
(1/4 million lines of code, about 8 years of development, 9,000
revisions committed).
Speaker Bio
Talk by Brenda J. Butler, Maker member at CREDIL.
Brenda has been programming on unix/linux environments for ~20 years,
doing application development, web sites, kernel programming and
embedded programming, with a little system administration and teaching
thrown in for good measure. Yep, Jill of all trades.
Purpose
I am aware that this topic has been done before and probably more times
than is worth counting, however this was originally written as a HOWTO
for my brother to install a replacement for his old gateway box. I
wanted to include all of the stuff that is usually left out, as I felt
that would reduce the number of possible phone calls until he wanted to
do something interesting with the unit.
Title: January Meeting: Ringing in the GNU year
Location: CHANGE!!! Dymon Self
Storage, 323 Coventry Rd.
Link out:
Click here
Description: Another calendar year has rolled over, time to learn
to write the date correctly again.
Not a whole lot to talk about this month:
- I’m still working out my documentation management system and it is
getting closer to something I think I can live with. AsciiDoc or
AsciiDoctor are the closest to useful that I have managed to find
so far.
- Slightly more useful enhancements to your daily desktop for those
not running a vanilla linux or bsd
- Cygwin
- MinGW
- homebrew
- macports
- Slightly esoteric, but current and interesting: Hacking SD cards
Start Time: 18:45
Date: 2014-01-16
End Time: 20:45