This is a bit of an expanded rambling on the July event posting. As I stated in the event post and calendar entry, it’s July already and we are past halfway through the year. It’s time to be thinking of all the projects we wanted to start and realize it’s time to select the ones that we need to do vs. the ones it would be nice to do.

One of the topics I sent to the mailing list was the Cisco router item. Do you really want someone else to decide what you are allowed to visit? While the article shows that Cisco was a little less evil at the end, it does highlight the issues with closed source items (yes, I know I’m being a bit of a hippocrite using a MacBook). My little consumer router boxes don’t run factory firmware and neither do my production ones.

Title: July Meeting 2012
Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata
Link out: Click here
Description:

Only 6 meetings left this year…

Topics:

• The Cisco router item that went to the mailing list
• The fall open source festival is looking good and will probably be called “User Group Connect”
• Logo redesign
• Website was moved - issues?
• Other items - we always have a few

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2012-07-19
End Time: 21:00

In an effort to avoid more power outage issues and get the site a little faster and more reliable, I’ve migrated the site to a hosting provider. This of course comes with a few issues, so if something is broken, please let me know. This was an excuse to dispose of the rather ancient box that was hosting the site as well, so it was a plus for me on the power usage front.

Title: June Meeting 2012
Location: The Second Cup, Bells Corners
Link out: Click here
Description: No special topics, just some followup from last month.

I might have a bit of documentation with me done in asciidoc and have the appropriate tools with me to go through the generation of the different output formats.

Other topics welcome - anyone have a Raspberry Pi yet? How about an APC (not a UPS)?

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2012-06-21
End Time: 21:00

Here are a selection of pictures. If you want to see more, check out the BSDCan page on facebook. There may be references back to these pictures, but there will be many others as well.