WHAT: NBLUG InstallFest
WHERE: Sonoma State Campus Schulz Info Center, Room 1121 (see below for specifics)
WHO: Anyone wanting help in installing Linux onto their computer
URL: https://nblug.org/installfest/
WHAT DO I DO: Go to https://nblug.org/installfest/ to signup!!!!
WHEN: Saturday, April 19th, 2003, 10:30AM - 4:00PM

Please note that this InstallFest is NOT at O’Reilly and Associates. It will instead be at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park. Please see above for information on the exact location and directions.

An InstallFest is a free workshop where volunteers can help you to get Linux onto your computer. For more information, follow the links above.

This is our normal monthly meeting at the normal scheduled time and place.

This is a Special Event in an unusual location. This is the same building as our InstallFests, but in a room on the second floor. Sorry, but no food allowed.

The movie runs for about an hour and a half, and we plan to start it right at 2:00PM, so plan to show up around 1:40PM.

We plan to show the high-quality special edition DVD version of this film on a large projection television, but, depending on shipping speeds, we may be forced to show a lower-quality version instead. If we have the special edition by then, and if enough people are interested, we may also show some of the extras after the main event.

REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software model and Microsoft to create GNU/Linux and the Open Source movement.

On June 1, 2001, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said “Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.”

Microsoft fears GNU/Linux, and rightly so. GNU/Linux and the Open Source & Free Software movements arguably represent the greatest threat to Microsoft’s way of life. Shot in cinemascope on 35mm film in Silicon Valley, REVOLUTION OS tracks down the key movers and shakers behind Linux, and finds out how and why Linux became such a potent threat.

REVOLUTION OS features interviews with Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Brian Behlendorf, Michael Tiemann, Larry Augustin, Frank Hecker, and Rob Malda. To view the trailer or the first eight minutes go to the ifilm website for REVOLUTION OS.

http://www.revolution-os.com/

The LNX-BBC is a mini Linux-distribution, small enough to fit on a CD-ROM that has been cut, pressed, or molded to the size and shape of a business card.

LNX-BBCs can be used to rescue ailing machines, perform intrusion post-mortems, act as a temporary workstation, and perform many other tasks that we haven’t yet imagined.

http://lnx-bbc.org/

This month’s topic is a continuation of our October meeting discussing the popular PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) web scripting language. Mark will be going beyond basic PHP into more intermediate topics. PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

Mark Linford currently works at Santa Rosa Junior College, and amongst his other duties, he writes various PHP scripts, some of which talk to MySQL databases. Previous to working at SRJC he worked with PHP at several other companies.

http://www.php.net/

http://www.marklinford.com/

http://www.santarosa.edu/

WHAT: NBLUG InstallFest
WHERE: Sonoma State Campus Schulz Info Center, Room 1121 (see below for specifics)
WHO: Anyone wanting help in installing Linux onto their computer
URL: https://nblug.org/installfest/
WHAT DO I DO: Go to http://www.nblug.org/installfest/ to signup!!!!
WHEN: Saturday, January 18th, 2003, 10:30AM - 4:00PM

Please note that this InstallFest is NOT at O’Reilly and Associates. It will instead be at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park. Please see below for information on the exact location and directions.

An InstallFest is a free workshop where volunteers can help you to get Linux onto your computer. For more information, follow the links above.

Tux Paint is open source painting software designed for children. It runs on Linux, but also runs on a wide variety of other operating systems.

This presentation will include:

Demonstration of using Tux Paint - Why did Bill start the project? - Why did Bill choose to do it Open Source? - Tux Paint’s language- and platform-agnosticism - How users and developers can extend Tux Paint (for themselves/their kids, or for the general community of users)

Bill Kendrick is the author of the Tux Paint software. He is also one of the founders and the current president of LUGOD. Before moving to Davis he attended SSU.

Blue Mug, Inc. invites the North Bay Linux Users’ Group for a presentation and discussion of a project developing a prototype device using embedded Linux. Topics will include hardware selection, kernel and driver issues, software selection, user interface design, and hacking on the Gtk+ GUI.

Blue Mug, Inc. is an engineering consultancy company in Berkeley that writes software for mobile consumer devices. Devin Carraway and Chuck Groom are project engineers. Devin used to be an NBLUG board member and a periodic presenter before he moved out of Sonoma County, but we twisted his arm and he’s coming back for a meeting this month. Chuck focused the latter portion of his undergraduate career on AI research and robotics. A brief sojourn at a dot com nurtured his fanatical attention to usability concerns. At Blue Mug, he continues his interests in tight code and user interface design and implementation.

http://blugmug.com/

RedHat Road Tour is a special event at a different time, but at the usual place.

NBLUG is lucky enough to be the only Northern California stop on the RedHat Road Tour.

Four men. Two weeks. Five thousand miles. And one solitary purpose: To discover the state of Linux in America.

From 6:30 to 7:30 there will be general socializing and refreshments; bring $5-$10 for food, though RedHat may help pay for food. Probably order pizza or something.

Then at 7:30 there will be a presentation followed by Q&A.

There will be swag and O’Reilly will be selling books in the lobby.

GPG is a PGP compatible Public Key encryption system primarily used for email. We may also do a keysigning party.

Augie is a regularly attending member of NBLUG who is currently majoring in Computer Science at Sonoma State University and working for the Sonoma County Water Agency, primarily doing web and database development.

http://www.gnupg.org/

PHP is a commonly used scripting language designed for the web.

Mark Linford currently works at SRJC, and amongst other duties, writes PHP scripts.

http://www.php.net/

http://www.marklinford.com/

Our speaker this month is an expert on legal issues relating to open source software and intellectual property; instead of a specific pre-planned formal presentation, we’ve decided to do a Q&A session, so read up, think of some questions (interesting, hard, you’re just curious, whatever…) and bring them to the meeting with you. Or you can email legal-questions@nblug.org and we can ask your questions for you.

Larry Rosen is the founding partner of ROSENLAW.COM LLP, a law firm that specializes in intellectual property matters for large and small companies and individuals. He is also the general counsel and executive director of Open Source Initiative, an organization that reviews and approves licenses for open source software. His articles on legal issues relating to open source appear monthly in Linux Journal. Before he became an attorney, Larry taught computer programming and managed several computer departments at Stanford University. He then worked in private industry, managing computer and applications development. At one large firm he guided the design, implementation, manufacturing and marketing of successful products for data and voice communications.

https://www.opensource.org/

http://www.rosenlaw.com/html/lawrenceerosen.html

https://www.linuxjournal.com/user/800878