[wellylug] Next meeting

[Christian Gagneraud]

On 10/07/2014 10:35 a.m., Hugh Davenport wrote:
> Hey Chris,
>
> That sounds great, would love to get you up here to share your ideas. How
> long would you need?

Don't know really, maybe 15 minutes will be enough. I don't plan to come 
with slides, I'm more thinking about a short intro and a live coding demo.
Chris



>
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> QtCreator/qmakeparser.cpp:42
>> ////////// Parser ///////////
>> #define fL1S(s) QString::fromLatin1(s)
>> namespace { // MSVC2010 doesn't seem to know the semantics of "static"
>> ...
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