Meeting 2010-01-09
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Saturday January 9, 2010
We're currently planning a meeting for this day, from 12:00pm to 4:00pm.
Venue Information
Topic
This months topic is Multimedia. All aspect of audio, video and graphics software and codecs.
Schedule
12:00 PM: Arrive, get settled, mingling
12:15 PM: Welcome & announcements
- Venue details (where is the bathroom?)
- Introductions
- Announcements such as (for example) upcoming events, jobs, new distro releases
Video: download or view online(Time 20:12, Size 132M)
Upcoming events
- Ubuntu Washington LoCo Team elections are beginning.
- Bellevue Linux Users Group meeting on ________________
- Seattle Blender Users Group meeting on ________________
- Seattle Amazon Web Services User Group meeting on February 2, 2010
- Seattle Linux Chix meeting on January 2, 2010
12:30 PM: Talks
The first hour (give-or-take) is reserved for talks & presentations of varying length. GSLUG encourages open sharing and speakers of all skill levels are encouraged to share, discuss, learn and grow. Tell us about a project you're involved in, a nasty problem solved, etc.
lightning talks go about 5 minutes each plus time for questions. Regular talks are usually 15 minutes +. Please keep the length under 30 minutes without prior consent from the organizers.
If you're interested in presenting, copy/paste the next two lines to add yourself and change the details.
Image Recognition - Dan Bair
An overview of the methods and techniques used in computer vision today and their practical applications
Video: download or view online (Time 13:02, Size 49M)
ImageMagick for All - Andrew Gray / Sweetandy
Useful ImageMagick commands for fast and easy image modification. Estimated length: ~5-10 minutes.
Video: download or view online (Time 16:20, Size 51M)
RoadNav by Meryll Larkin
A demonstration of the RoadNav application, which is like Streets and Trips for Linux.
Video: download or view online (Time 12:15, Size 24M)
More info: http://www.alwanza.com/howTo/linux/gps_map.html
FFMPEG and libavcodec and what are the best codecs to use - Keith
I will discuss ffmpeg and libavcodec, how they came about, and where they are used today.
Background reading for the DVD tangent:
- History of DeCSS
- Playing Restricted Formats in Ubuntu
Video: download or view online (Time 40:47, Size 100M)
Audio: download (Time 40:47, Size 13M)
XBMC and Deriatives - Keith
I will discuss XBMC, the fanciest mplayer frontend around. And Boxee, a commercial fork of the project.
Video: see talk above
~2:30 PM GSLUG Trivia
(Tentative)... Bri Hatch has books and questions.
~2:45 PM - 4:00 PM: Workshops, chatting etc.
The rest of the meeting is open format for the following types of activities.
- Chatting
- Learning more about what you heard in the talks
- Working together on projects
- Getting support... for instance, you want to install Linux on your computer and need some assistance
- Fixing bugs - see Bug Jam & participate in the triaging and fixing bugs.
- Swap stuff - bring your surplus gear, back-issues or books read and swap/trade with others
- PGP key-signing
- Upgrading to Ubuntu Karmic, the latest (and greatest?) version of Ubuntu Linux
- Google Wave: Anyone have invites to share for this service? Anyone want invites? Set that up here.
Who's Coming? - PLEASE RSVP HERE
Planning to attend? Please add your name below
- William Hale
- Mark Foster
- Jason Self
- Michael Evans - Will bring cake if > 9 others RSVP
- Jacob Sohl
- Dennis Fisher (GreySim)
- Andrew Gray
- Stephen Budidharma
- Jason Rigden
- Alan O'Dannel
- John Atkison
- Danny Tatom (dnyy)
- Keith Herrington (keith)
- Dan Bair
- Sam Heller
- Rich Lundeen (mopey)
- Brigette Lundeen
- harvey
- Mike Sawicki
- H. Ryan Jones
- Beau Hoyt
- Haven Hash
- Nicole Simon
- Dave Rosman
- Wayne Tedder
- Jaron Kelley
- Andrew Kvalheim
- Rob Lanphier
Suggestion, Post meeting overflow area? (Maybe some restaurant/cafe with free parking & wifi?)
- There's a coffee shop not very far away that could be used for this.(Map)
