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.

Title: February Meeting 2013
Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata
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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.

For those who haven’t heard me talking about it, we are having an “unconference” at Shopify’s headquarters on February 9^th 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

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.

Title: 2013 January Meeting
Location: Tim Horton’s, Fitzgerald Rd. @ Robertson Rd.
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Description: First meeting of 2013.

Some discussion of LISA'12, LOPSA discussion, a little discussion on my documentation quest and anything else people want to bring up.

The location is a little small, but given our attendance in the past, this shouldn’t be a problem. The place is laid out like a small upscale coffee shop, possibly with less seating than the old Bells Corners location.

Here are a selection of the photos I took at the conference. Once again, it was great. Unfortunately, I managed to catch a cold so I missed the conference reception cruise around San Diego harbour. Being dizzy and on a boat are not two things to mix on purpose.