[wellylug] Next meeting

[Hugh Davenport]

Hey Chris,

That sounds great, would love to get you up here to share your ideas. 
How
long would you need?

Cheers,

Hugh

On 2014-07-10 01:20, Ch'Gans wrote:
> On 08/07/14 09:50, Hugh Davenport wrote:
>> So far we still have no speakers. I suggest the next speaker to be
>> YOU. That's right, YOU are going to speak at the next wellylug.
> 
> Man! YOU convinced me! ;)
> 
> OK, if people fancy, i could do a quick talk about the Qt Framework
> and their JavaScript integration [0]. I'm not an expert on the topic,
> but I was so amazed recently when I first tried to use it, how damned
> easy it is and how powerful it is too!
> 
> Other topic of interest to me are:
> - Open source mechanical engineering w/ FreeCAD [1] or other open
> source SW (BTW I would love to hear about CNC and 3D printing)
> - Open source electronics engineering (gEDA [2],  Qucs [3], KiCAD [4], 
> ...)
> - RF stuff (GNU radio[5], Osmocom [6], ...)
> - Running a TOR exit node and dealing with abuse reports
> 
> C'mon guys, anyone else fancy jump in?
> 
> On the side, I would love to hear about the state of CAD/EDA Open
> source SW package, hear criticism on how/why we are way behind the
> most shitiest proprietary SW on the planet, why it does matter (how
> can you pretend/believe to create open source hardware using closed
> source software) and other philosophical stuff around the subject of
> open (source) engineering and open (source) society [7], [8]
> 
> If enthusiasm gets low when it comes to talks/demos, I wouldn’t mind
> some NSA/GCHQ/DGSE/<insert-yours-here> bashing/gossiping [9] around a
> good beer or two or three or more...
> \_o< \_o< coin! coin! pan! pan! [10]
> 
> Chris
> 
> [0] http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qtjavascript.html
> [1] http://freecadweb.org/
> [2] http://www.gpleda.org/
> [3] http://qucs.sourceforge.net/
> [4] http://www.kicad-pcb.org/
> [5] http://gnuradio.org
> [6] http://osmocom.org/
> [7] http://opensourceecology.org/
> [8] http://www.wikihouse.cc/
> [9]
> http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/17131/1/top-ten-ways-to-fuck-the-nsa
> [10] 
> http://linuxfr.org/users/daique/journaux/_o-coin-coin#comment-403338
> 
> PS: Did you notice that none of these URLs start with https?
> Haeremai! Everything is ka pai!
> 
> 
>> 
>> Talks can be any length, ie 5min, 10 min, 30 min, an hour if you have
>> something interesting. Talks can be on any topic, but something to do
>> with open source and/or linux is preferred. Your talk could be about
>> some propriety software that doesn't have an open source equivalent!
>> 
>> Examples of talks:
>> - Your favourite distro, and why it is your favourite
>> - Your most hated distro, and why you hate it
>> - A useful tool you have used
>> - A tool you want to use but haven't found the time/situation to use 
>> it
>> - A recap of any talk you have heard, eg at another user group, or a
>> conference
>> - What got you into open source
>> - What you like about open source
>> 
>> So I think that should be enough to spark some ideas. I look forward 
>> to
>> hearing from someone who wants to speak in a few weeks. So put on your
>> thinking caps, and click reply. I don't want this group to just be 
>> talks
>> from me :D
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
> 
>> Hugh
>> 
>> On 2014-06-30 12:04, Hugh Davenport wrote:
>>> Monday 21st July, 6pm, Level 3, Catalyst House.
>>> 
>>> So far we have no speakers, so if anyone would like to volunteer...
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Hugh
>> 
>> 
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