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Oct 24, 2013 - 1 minute read

November Meeting 2013

Title: November Meeting 2013
Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata
Link out: Click here
Description: It is the post LISA'13 meeting.

Come out and ask questions, perhaps get some small swag items and hear all about the conference

Topics:

  • LISA'13 Commentary and Q&A
  • Annual Social in December, need to get numbers for the venue
  • Puppet Configuration/Puppet Mastery
  • Git has raised its ugly head…
  • Assorted other topics…

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2013-11-21
End Time: 21:30

Oct 17, 2013 - 3 minute read

October Follow-Up

During the meeting, I mentioned a number of items that required links to be posted. Here are the items and links:

  • The presentation I did for OCLUG on using a Rapberry Pi as a PBX DropBox Link
  • I talked about VOIP.ms as a DID and service provider. Links are also in the presentation as well
  • Modern publishing - I ran across this on the O’Reilly website. I’m not sure if it is of interest to anyone here, however the implications are quite interesting for anyone who wants to publish in the future.

At O’Reilly Media, as we work on transitioning to an XHTML5-source workflow (which will be the cornerstone of the next release of our Atlas publishing platform), we have posted an open source project on GitHub called HTMLBook. The HTMLBook project contains an XML Schema that subsets the HTML5 content model to provide specifications for book-specific semantics, such as chapters, appendixes, and sidebars. Additionally, it contains a sample CSS stylesheet for styling HTML5 content for PDF output using CSS3 Paged Media, and XSL tools for autogenerating book navigation elements including tables of contents, indexes, and cross-references, as well as generating the necessary metadata and package files for EPUB 3 output. We look forward to continued collaboration around the development of HTML5 authoring tools for publishers.

Oct 6, 2013 - 2 minute read

October Meeting 2013

Title: October Meeting 2013
Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata
Link out: Click here
Description:

October: September revisit

Given we had such a small turnout at the last meeting, I’m going to reuse the topics.

As mentioned for last month, we are now a LOPSA local, so anyone showing up this month gets a few LOPSA stickers, compliments of LOPSA and Matt Simmons. I haven’t had a chance to get started on the re-branding of the site yet, but that will be completed before the November meeting, so I can start year 15 with a new look. In celebration, I’ll buy the coffee and snacks for the meeting.

Sep 15, 2013 - 1 minute read

Galleries are fixed.

Looks like it was a short code issue after an update that messed things up. Revisiting the posts and correcting the codes seems to have fixed everything. RSS feeds are still working, so I think we are all good.

Sep 13, 2013 - 2 minute read

September Meeting 2013

Title: September Meeting 2013
Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata
Link out: Click here
Description:

Welcome to September…

A couple of items for the group first:

  • LISA'13 will be in Washington D.C. from Nov 03-08, 2013
  • We are now a full Local for LOPSA and the only one outside the U.S. at this time.
  • I’m thinking of re-branding the site a little to show the affiliation and to remove the old SAGE branding as that is now ancient history. I will probably keep the ovsage name, but might add a second domain to redirect here
  • We were formed in November of 1998, so this November is our 15th year in operation. Maybe I can keep it running another 15 years :)
  • The annual social will be at the Mill St. Brew Pub again. I have asked for a better seating arrangement for this year. High bar stools at a small table are not quite what this time around. This is tentatively scheduled for Dec 19, 2013
  • Site photo galleries all fixed up as well as working RSS feed again

Items/Talking Points for the September Meeting: