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.
Link out: Click here
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.

Title: December Meeting: Annual Social
Location: Mill St. Brew Pub
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Description: Party Time.

As there are celebrations, gatherings and feasting at this time of year, it is only appropriate that we partake of the festive spirit and get together for a meal instead of our usual chit-chat.

Spouses welcome.

Of course, if there are technology related discussions, that would be normal for this crowd.

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2012-12-20

Title: November Meeting 2012
Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata
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Description: This meeting Bruce would like to discuss MediaWiki

Specifically installing it with a specific functionality. I think it would be quite interesting to go over the requirements, what he has found to solve the problem and the intricacies of getting all the components to work in a RHEL and Debian environment using packages vs. installing from source and the issues that causes.