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.
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/ WHATDO 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.
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 RedHatRoad 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.
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.COMLLP, 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.
Augie will be covering both PostgreSQL Database Administration and MySQL Database Administration. So if you’ve just been dying to set up a database or you have one of these databases and aren’t quite sure how to configure it or add users or just don’t quite know what to do with it, come to the meeting with your brains ready. We’re hoping some of you will be coming with questions ready so that Augie can be properly grilled.
MySQL and PostgreSQL are the two leading open source SQL Relational DataBase Management Systems (RDBMS); both run on Linux as well as a variety of other platforms, mostly *nix. They are used to power many websites, including slashdot.org, freshmeat.net, SourceForge.net, quickfacts.census.gov, finance.yahoo.com, mail-abuse.org, and more projects than you can shake a stick at. MySQL is a lightweight database engine that does most of what you want; PostgreSQL is a bit heftier but also provides all of what’s in the ANSISQL92 standard. Both can be used from C, C++, Perl, PHP, Java, ODBC and Python.
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.
