TODAY April 4 -BSD @ Global FSW Voice Meeting BerkeleyTIP -Linus,Guido,Shuttleworth...

[Murray Stokely]

There are dozens of videos from recent BSD conferences at
http://www.youtube.com/bsdconferences

                   - Murray

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 12:27 AM, john_re <john_re at fastmail.us> wrote:
> 3 PM BSD hour.  Please email me or the BTIP list if you know of any
> recent (past 12 months) BSD videos. Thanks. :)
>
> Join with the friendly, productive, Global Linux community,
> in the _TWICE_ monthly, Voice over internet meeting,
>  BerkeleyTIP-Global.   GNU(Linux) & BSD, Free SW, HW & FreeCulture,
>  Talks Installfest Project/ProgrammingParty
> http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/
>
> NEW- _TWO_ monthly day long meetings- 10AM-6PM Pacific (GMT -8H) time,
>  = 1P - 9P Eastern  =  6PM - 2AM (Sat to Sunday) GMT
>  Join in as short or long as you like.
>  1st Saturday - April  4    *****  TODAY  *****
>  3rd Sunday   - April 20
>
>
> =====  LOCATION - ONLINE, IN YOUR AREA, OR AT U. California Berkeley
> http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/remote-attendance
> http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/directions
>
>
> ===== NEW VIDEOS:
> Linux Torvalds    - GIT
> Mark Shuttleworth - Debian & Ubuntu - Debian & Derived Distros
> Krafft Shuttleworth Levsen - Debian Derivers Roundtable
> Fabricio Cannini  - Debian High Performance clusters and supercomputers
> Guido Van Rossum  - Python 3000
> BestTech LAMPR    - Get Started with Ruby on Rails in < 5 minutes
> Culture - Professor Wikipedia - The funniest video of the year.
>  [Citation needed.]
>
> [Thanks to all the speakers, videographers, & organizations.  :)
> Please excuse if I mistyped names.  <8-0
> I hereby invite the speakers to attend BTIP for Q&A & discussion.
> Please notify the speakers if you know how to contact them, thanks. :) ]
>
> Download the videos & watch them before or during the meeting.
> Join online during the relevant topic hour to discuss each video.
> [See below for longer talk descriptions.]
> http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/talk-videos
>
>
> =====  YOU GIVE A 5 MINUTE LIGHTNING TALK
> 4 PM.  Let us know in advance what you'd like to talk about. :)
>
>
> ===== NEW MEETING COMPONENTS
> FREE CULTURE - Wikipedia, Creative Commons, etc
>
> COLLEGE MAJORS
>  Business, Medicine, Law, Engineering,
>  Art/Lit/Science/Social/Psych/Humanities/LiberalArts, etc
>
> SOFTWARE: Games
>
>
> ===== SCHEDULE / AGENDA 10AM - 6PM Pacific time (= GMT - 8 Hours)
> TIME    TOPIC / ACTIVITY
> 10 A    Set up.  Get on IRC & VOIP
> 11 A    Installfest; Ekiga3
> 12 N    Asterisk, OLPC, Games;
>        PROGRAMMING PARTY: VOIP Conference client & server
> 1 P     Xen, Virtualbox; LAMPR - Database; Law
> 2 P     KDE & GNOME; Macintosh; FreeCulture: Wikipedia,CreativeCommons
> 3 P     Debian; BSD; College & University groups; Business
> 4 P     LIGHTNING TALKS;
>        Hardware- Ex: OpenMoko Phone; Medicine
> 5 P     Art/Literature/Music; Python; INetWebDev;
>        Local simultaneous meetings arrangements for next meeting
>
>
> ===== Voice/VOIP CONFERENCE MEETING TECHNOLOGY
> Join in on IRC, & we'll help you get on VOIP.  :)
>
> IRC: #BerkeleyTIP, irc.freenode.net
> Hardware: VOIP Headset- (USB recommended for echo cancellation?)
> Software: Ekiga(GnomeMeeting) recommended. SIP
> VOIP server: Ekiga.net
> http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/remote-attendance
>
>
> ===== LOCATION GROWTH:   GREAT PROGRESS
> In March we QUADRUPLED our international attendance. :) Welcome :)
>  GLOBAL: Germany, England, Iran, India
>  US: So far: Hawaii, California, Washington, Michigan, Virgina,
>  NCarolina
> When will your state or country 1st join in???
>
>
> =====  PROJECT / PROGRAMMING PARTY
> Work on your own project, or the group project.
>
> Share details of your project on IRC, VOIP & the mailing list.  Invite
> others to join in your project.
>
> Or, work on the group project - Learning about & Improving Ekiga,
> Asterisk, & our VOIP conference system/technology.
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>
> Join by yourself, or invite  your friends over & have a party.  Have a
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>
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>
>
>
> =======================================================================
> ===== VIDEOS - MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS:
> 3 from DebConf08:
> 1) Fabricio Cannini - Debian High Performance clusters and
> supercomputers, 1hr
>
> 2) Mark Shuttleworth on Debian and Ubuntu - Keynote current state of
> collaboration between Debian and Ubuntu, progress made, and new
> opportunities for collaboration and development.
>
> 3) Debian Derivers Roundtable discussion - prominent developers of
> Debian-derived works, including Martin (Debian Edu). 1hr
>
> Linus Torvalds on Git - Git is a rewrite from scratch concurrent
> versioning system that Linus wrote to replace cvs, subversion (svn) and
> other versioning systems used in large collaborative software
> development. Benefits, drawbacks and insufficiencies of other versioning
> systems in common use.  Google Tech Talks
>
> Guido Van Rossum, Python 3000, Google, 1h 25m
>
> Topic LAMPR: Get Started with Ruby on Rails in less than five minutes -
> BestTech
>
> Free Culture - Professor Wikipedia - CollegeHumor -
> A short but interesting take on Wikipedia, and the side effect of anyone
> being able to edit the content. Listen as Professor Wikipedia alters his
> lecture presumably because people are "changing" his lecture behind the
> scenes.  The funniest video of the year. [Citation needed.] 02:55
>
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