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May 14, 2013 - 1 minute read - Comments

May Meeting 2013

Title: May Meeting 2013
Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata
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Description: I’m a little late posting this.

I wasn’t sure we would have the meeting this week as BSDCan 2013 is on.

Topics:

  • Ubuntu network installs (also debian) and gotchas
  • MythTV
  • everything else

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 20130516
End Time: 21:30

Apr 14, 2013 - 1 minute read - Comments

April Meeting 2013

Title: April Meeting 2013
Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata
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Description: It’s April and there is still snow on the ground.

Thanks Ottawa weather!

Topics this month:

  • NAS devices, specifically the synology units
  • smart watches… useful?
  • monitoring tools and agents
  • other oddities as usual

If there are new people, look for a gaggle of people that may have laptops or tablets out and there will likely be a set of crutches nearby.

Mar 18, 2013 - 1 minute read - Comments

March Meeting 2013

Title: March Meeting 2013
Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata
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Description: Time to get together and celebrate the wheels in your head make that quarter-turn and move forward. We have lost an hour until fall and are possibly still suffering for it.

We have a number of oddball topics this month:

  • Compiling statically linked binaries to create “future-proof” support tools (sure they are)
  • Fun and games in document generation - take it away Bruce!
  • Generating reports with web pages and other miscellaneous items (tools for the document haters)
  • Using MarkDown as a documentation tool - easier than one would think
  • Multi-boot with a raspberry pi

Could be interesting. As always, there will be a variety of unrelated conversation, arcane references and conversations that will fill your trivia buffers to overflowing.

Feb 20, 2013 - 1 minute read - Comments

February Meeting 2013

Title: February Meeting 2013
Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata
Link out: Click here
Description: The location will be the Tim Horton’s on Eagleson.

The location we have been meeting at regularly for the last year or two. The Tim Horton’s in Bells Corners turned out to be a dissapointment due to a very small interior.

Topics:

  • How about what are people working on?
  • What seems to be the growing trends?
  • Will we still be employable in 5 years?

Other topics welcome.

Jan 20, 2013 - 2 minute read - Comments

User Group Connect 2013 - Feb 09 at Shopify

For those who haven’t heard me talking about it, we are having an “unconference” at Shopify’s headquarters on February 9th It is an open event any anybody is welcome to come out and see what user groups we have in the region. You can visit the site at ugconnect.ca


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UGC 2013:

  • Drop in to our free relaxed one day unconference.
  • Meet some of the many technical User Groups in Ottawa.
  • Chat with fellow high tech workers, and students.
  • Meet with some of the most tech-friendly local companies.

Why would we do this?

Not everyone knows about all the user groups - the user groups are doing very interesting stuff and sometimes complementary things that would benefit from knowledge of the topics in other user groups. We want to get these doers in the same room together where they can collaborate with and learn from each other.