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]]>ausimage 2010-05-02T18:36:45Z Sun, 02 May 2010 18:36:45 GMT Activities / 200912171900 http://main.newyork-ubuntu.com/Activities/200912171900 70-1400 RIT Campus

DOX Electronics will give a presentation on computer security

]]>ausimage 2010-03-30T02:09:22Z Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:09:22 GMT Activities / 20091124845 http://main.newyork-ubuntu.com/Activities/20091124845

Details:

Rochester Riverside Convention Center

November 21-24, 2009

Presentation Details:

Educational Technology and Equity in Today's Schools
room: Highland H

Educational Technology and Equity in Today's Schools Presenter: Charles Profitt, NY State Ubuntu Community The use of Free Software will enable educational leaders to transform their communities learning environment by lowering the cost of students having access to the same software used at school on their home computer.

NYSCATE Information

NYSCATE is an organization of dedicated technology using educators, committed to transforming teaching and learning, in order to provide our children with an education that prepares them to live satisfying and productive lives.

What is NYSCATE? NYSCATE (The New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education), is a non-profit, professional organization representing more than 2,000 technology using educators and administrators in New York State. NYSCATE is an affiliate of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and cooperates with such partners as the New York State Education Department, state and national educational organizations, private sector corporations, and publishers to further the use of technology in our schools. NYSCATE is involved in helping define statewide policy regarding the use of technologies in education. Please read the President's Welcome message to learn more.

Who is NYSCATE? NYSCATE has drawn strength and support from its talented and diverse membership since 1965. With a current membership of over 2,000 members, all regions of the state are represented in our community of teachers, administrators, school board members, parents, consultants, and business people.

Annual Conference Information

Once again it is with great excitement that we welcome you back to Rochester, NY for the 44th Annual NYSCATE Conference. Each year, the committee works incredibly hard to ensure that each experience you have is new and inspiring. This year, we are thrilled to have an incredible line-up of internationally known keynote speakers including Sir Ken Robinson, Chris Lehmann, Elliot Soloway, Cathie Norris, David Jakes and Peter Reynolds. The goal of this years event is to stress collegial collaborations during a very difficult budget year. You will notice that we have reduced registration fees and completely eliminated the organizational membership fee. We are working hard to make sure you can still get a national conference experience, while attending an in-state event.


Empty Exhibitors Floor - Connections Area

Empty Exhibitors Floor - One of the seven aisles

Presentations Area - Conference attendees between sessions
]]>ausimage 2010-03-30T02:11:13Z Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:11:13 GMT Activities / 200911191900 http://main.newyork-ubuntu.com/Activities/200911191900

Details:

70-1400 RIT Campus

room: 70-1400

Dr. Peter Anderson, Professor Emeritus RIT, will give a presentation on J.

J is Ken Iverson's APL in disguise. Unlike APL, programs are written in ASCII; like APL it is a superb "array processing language" -- Iverson called it an executable mathematical notation.

J is a functional language: functions are first class object, easy to define and manipulate. It is interactive, like Python, Perl, etc.

J reminds me a lot of the Unix shells with lots of well thought out elementary components and the glue to stick them together (i.e., pipes, redirection, etc.). J supplies the primitives for dealing with arrays (lists, table, report) and the glue, several types of function composition, to make a superbly useful system.

See http://jsoftware.com/(approve sites) for a copy of the software as well as lots of free books and articles.

]]>ausimage 2010-03-30T02:00:42Z Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:00:42 GMT Activities / 200911081300 http://main.newyork-ubuntu.com/Activities/200911081300 Bi-Annual Release Party for an Ubuntu Release

Karmic Koala, 9.10 @ Holiday Inn, Waterloo, NY

More Detail

Holiday Inn Waterloo, 2468 Rt 414 (Mound Road), Waterloo, New York 13165

  • Public Awareness Event: 1pm until 3pm
    • Donald (Ducky) Newel, Freedom of Foss
    • Elizabeth (pleia2) Krumbach, Who Uses and Contributes to Open Source Projects (And how you can too!)
  • Pizza Party: 3pm until 5pm
    • Reception, pizza and soda served.

room: deleware Room

amenities: free wireless

Recap

We had a great release party and thanks go out to all the attendees and both presenters as well as the Holiday Inn of Waterloo for hosting the event. We had a booth stationed outside of the conference room showcasing Ubuntu variants on multiple computers. Thanks goes out to System76 for their demo laptop as well. We had a mirror repository setup in the main room for anyone interested in upgrading on site.

Our first presenter Donald (Ducky) Newel discussed the 'Freedom of FOSS', which focused on what Free and Open Source software is and why it's important. He explained the benefits of the open source model by highlighting how it affects the average computer user and demonstrated many examples that users can benefit from. There was a lively question and answer session towards the end of the talk and it ran over the allotted time.

Next up on the program was Elizabeth (pleia2) Krumbach, who gave an inspiring talk on Who Uses and Contributes to Open Source Projects and how you can too. She focused on how anyone of any skill level can contribute to Open Source by simply getting involved. The key points were that you don't have to be a programmer or guru to contribute in meaningful ways that can help grow the community. We had another lively question and answer session followed by pizza and drinks.


Demo System Setup

Sweet Laptop from System76 and a EEE Rockin the Karmic

Everyone loves the EEE

Lots of good conversations
]]>ausimage 2010-05-02T18:37:25Z Sun, 02 May 2010 18:37:25 GMT Activities / 200911051900 http://main.newyork-ubuntu.com/Activities/200911051900 Barnes and Noble @ RIT

Bill Bukowski will give a presentation on Virtual Box? 3.x

]]>ausimage 2010-03-30T01:58:48Z Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:58:48 GMT Activities / 200910151900 http://main.newyork-ubuntu.com/Activities/200910151900

Topic

Landon, a NY State Ubuntu Community team member from Syracuse, will give a presentation on backup options for Ubuntu

Details:

Golisano Building RIT

room: Upstairs Community Room


Landon discusses the five fundamentals of keeping your data safe
]]>ausimage 2010-03-30T01:38:57Z Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:38:57 GMT Activities / 200910011900 http://main.newyork-ubuntu.com/Activities/200910011900 Carl Schmidtmann will give a presentation on Ubuntu and Linux Security

Details:

Barnes and Noble

room: Upstairs meeting room

]]>ausimage 2010-03-30T01:28:24Z Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:28:24 GMT Activities / 200909212100 http://main.newyork-ubuntu.com/Activities/200909212100

Agenda

  • Nominations for President, Secretary, Treasurer, At-Large -- Launchpad:cprofitt 2009-09-20T18:55:48-0500
    • Jeremy will let us know who has been nominated
  • Consolidation of Website / Wiki -- Launchpad:cprofitt 2009-09-20T18:55:48-0500
    • (suggestion) Remove 'events' from website and only post them on wiki
    • (suggestion) Remove 'community meetup' from the website and only post them on the wiki
  • Add notice that the team is now official to the website -- Launchpad:cprofitt 2009-09-20T18:55:48-0500
  • Karmic Release Party
    • Waterloo, NY, 11-08-09 1-5pm
    • Others?

Attendance

  • ausimage
  • cproffit
  • Slick666
  • cws

Minutes

IRC Logs

(09:02:04 PM) ausimage: So... let get it on (09:02:32 PM) ausimage: Nominations.... No nominations have been recieved... so that is at a stand still ATM (09:02:40 PM) ***cprofitt nods (09:02:47 PM) cprofitt: what do we do in the case of no nominations? (09:02:54 PM) ausimage: President, Secretary, Treasurer and At-Large are open (09:03:25 PM) ausimage: We could pick names... are just ack the current active officers IMHO... (09:03:38 PM) ausimage: not sure if the bylaws state much about this... (09:03:47 PM) cprofitt: I do not remember any... (09:03:59 PM) cprofitt: hal14450, could nominate you and you him... (09:04:06 PM) cprofitt: or Dave123 could nominate you both (09:04:07 PM) ausimage: ;) (09:04:31 PM) cprofitt: I am recusing myself :-) (09:04:46 PM) ausimage: I am going to suggest to still send me any nomination (09:05:07 PM) ausimage: AFIAC Treasurer and At-Large are vacant (09:05:08 PM) hal14450: well i think cprofitt is doing a hell of a job and deserves a nomination for pres (09:05:36 PM) ausimage: Well... there is now a nomination to consider ;) (09:05:55 PM) hal14450: no offense ausimage but i had to give him acknowledgment (09:06:02 PM) ausimage: I know ;) (09:07:11 PM) ausimage: hal14450, cprofitt and I should be probably discuss this further later (09:07:21 PM) cprofitt: I certainly do not want to offend ausimage or not acknowledge his contributions (09:07:40 PM) ausimage: Thanks cprofitt... (09:07:49 PM) ausimage: Next Topic... (09:07:58 PM) ausimage: Website/Wiki stuff.... (09:08:17 PM) ausimage: It has been brought up about the lag on the website... (09:08:30 PM) cprofitt: I feel we need to consolidate the material covered (09:08:34 PM) ausimage: and perhaps consilidating things a bit... (09:08:54 PM) cprofitt: it is not just the lag -- the fact that we duplicate data leaves room for error and confusion (09:08:56 PM) ausimage: I am of the opinion that if the website is used properly it is less work (09:09:14 PM) cprofitt: it is bad to have people thinking we are 'dead' because one source is not up-to-date (09:09:35 PM) cprofitt: I also think that there is an 'expectation', based on other team sites, that certain content will be on the wiki (09:09:35 PM) ausimage: mostly cause the wiki lacks features that help reduce workload (09:10:11 PM) ausimage_oui left the room (quit: Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)). (09:10:21 PM) ausimage: The wiki's draw back is that you have to maintain both the index and the content :/ (09:10:47 PM) ausimage: the website maintains the index for you... when content is added... (09:10:52 PM) cprofitt: I think MoinMoin can handle some of it, but not all. (09:11:18 PM) ausimage: Yeah.. Moin Moin needs page-based variable BADLY IMHO :) (09:11:22 PM) cprofitt: I will have to check... I know it supports tags... from some of the document team projects I have been in (09:12:08 PM) ausimage: In such that I can make a page list that builds indexes based on values from subpages (09:12:13 PM) cprofitt: ausimage, I am willing to maintain the events/meetups on the wiki despite lacking the automation (09:12:25 PM) ausimage: K...\ (09:12:47 PM) ausimage: I thought it was clearly stated the website stuff was an 'archive' (09:12:58 PM) ausimage: and that current info is on the wiki... (09:13:10 PM) cprofitt: if you were able to scrape the wiki from the website... then perhaps... (09:13:35 PM) cprofitt: http://main.newyork-ubuntu.com/Activities/HomePage (09:13:36 PM) ausimage: I have been (09:13:47 PM) cprofitt: I do not see a mention of 'archive' there (09:13:59 PM) cprofitt: or any direction to see the wiki for the most up-to-date data (09:13:59 PM) ausimage: I can add that then (09:14:04 PM) cprofitt: I did not mean you personally... (09:14:08 PM) cprofitt: I meant programmatically (09:14:15 PM) cprofitt: build a perl script or something (09:14:30 PM) ausimage: oh scripting :) (09:14:41 PM) ausimage: yeah that is a possibility too (09:15:14 PM) ausimage: I think the best course is to better inform the user of the intent of the website pages then (09:15:38 PM) ausimage: Gah... and I am behind there... (09:15:51 PM) ausimage: I just don't no where time has gone lately (09:16:05 PM) cprofitt: if we inform them that it is an archive and not maintained as quickly as the wiki that would alleviate my concern (09:16:28 PM) ausimage: K... I will put it on my short list to tackle then ;) (09:16:37 PM) cprofitt: sounds good. (09:16:57 PM) cprofitt: cutting back to the nominations -- should we make a nominations page on the wiki? (09:17:04 PM) ausimage: Also If there are members who want access to the website content for creating or modifiing... let me know too (09:17:26 PM) cprofitt: ausimage, how should we tell members about being able to get access? (09:17:26 PM) ausimage: That or add it to the december page (09:17:32 PM) hal14450: so i nominate Slick666 and ausimage for VP (09:17:34 PM) cprofitt: I am sure Slick666 would be interested (09:17:43 PM) cprofitt: the vote is next month though; correct? (09:17:52 PM) cprofitt: I thought that is what we decided last month (09:17:55 PM) ausimage: er november then (09:18:00 PM) ausimage: I forgot (09:18:01 PM) hal14450: i nominate someone other than myself for secretary lol (09:18:04 PM) cprofitt: due to last years vote being on October 30th (09:18:16 PM) cprofitt: next month is October (09:18:20 PM) ausimage: Right... just forgetfull (09:18:22 PM) cprofitt: but I can add that to the October page (09:18:33 PM) ausimage: That is the best course (09:18:46 PM) cprofitt: or do we want to delay until November and hope that people actually become more active with meetings (09:19:04 PM) ausimage: cprofitt: I can add something how to gain edit rights to the website (09:19:20 PM) ausimage: I doubt things will change that much (09:19:26 PM) ausimage: :S (09:19:29 PM) cprofitt: sounds good... October or November for vote though? (09:19:38 PM) cprofitt: I doubt they will either... despite my hope that they will (09:19:54 PM) cprofitt: I think Slick666 is active in getting Syracuse up... and you have a chance to build up the FLs this year (09:20:45 PM) ausimage: Yeah... (09:20:59 PM) cprofitt: that can only help to attract people to meetings (09:21:26 PM) cprofitt: October or November for vote though... sorry about the birdwalk (09:21:52 PM) ausimage: Um... November perhaps (09:22:28 PM) cprofitt: I am fine with any choice you make... (09:22:34 PM) cprofitt: I think November is best... (09:22:43 PM) cprofitt: personally (09:23:13 PM) cprofitt: are we agreed with November then? (09:23:22 PM) ausimage: +1 (09:23:25 PM) cprofitt: k (09:23:52 PM) ausimage: Um November then... (09:23:53 PM) cprofitt: the next topic is easy too... add an 'official loco team' tid-bit to the website and wiki (09:24:01 PM) cprofitt: that sound good ausimage ? (09:24:04 PM) cprofitt: hal14450, ? (09:24:20 PM) ausimage: yeah that goes in with the rest of the website housekeeping... (09:24:22 PM) cprofitt: hey cws (09:24:35 PM) cprofitt: I just did not know if any felt the need to advert that or not (09:25:37 PM) ausimage: which the nominations? (09:25:46 PM) cprofitt: the 'official part' (09:26:15 PM) ausimage: Ah... not sure how but I think I can come up with something (09:26:33 PM) ausimage: also as aside to this... (09:27:54 PM) ausimage: Perhaps the team might want to mention we are independent and operate with the cooperation of the community at large (09:29:07 PM) ausimage: Next Topic? (09:29:31 PM) ausimage: Karmic Release Party (09:29:58 PM) ausimage: I have reserved the Holiday Inn, Waterloo for the 8th of November from 1-5pm (09:30:16 PM) ausimage: ducky has offered to give a presentation... (09:30:30 PM) ausimage: I am struggling with the flyer ATM (09:30:44 PM) ausimage: I have not heard back from Sys 76 (09:31:04 PM) ausimage: I do hope to see everyone there... (09:31:17 PM) cprofitt: ausimage, as you know I will not make it... (09:31:24 PM) cprofitt: I am Sunday inhibited during NFL season (09:31:29 PM) ausimage: yeah footballitis ;) (09:31:35 PM) cws: hey cprofit, I am just catching up on the meeting notes (09:31:45 PM) ausimage: cws hey (09:32:26 PM) ausimage: hal14450, Dave123, deejoe your coming? (09:32:32 PM) cprofitt: cool... good so see you here cws (09:32:40 PM) ausimage: anyone else? (09:32:47 PM) cprofitt: ausimage, is in need of a presentation in November at the launch party if you are interested (09:32:57 PM) cws: Unfortunately I can not make Nov 8 (09:33:19 PM) ausimage: :/ (09:33:57 PM) ausimage: Hopefully I am not going to be sitting there with just ducky :S (09:34:50 PM) ausimage: If anyone wants to assist let me know wrt Release Party in Waterloo (09:35:16 PM) ***ausimage notices no more agenda (09:35:30 PM) ausimage: Does the floor have anything to add? (09:35:47 PM) ***cprofitt looks at the floor waiting for it to speak (09:35:54 PM) ausimage: ULLU meets tomorrow at 7 at HWS (09:36:36 PM) ausimage: I will conclude this meeting then
]]>JeremyAustinBardo 2009-09-23T21:47:42Z Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:47:42 GMT Activities / 200909171900 http://main.newyork-ubuntu.com/Activities/200909171900

Details:

Building 70, RIT Campus Rochester, NY 14623

Large Lecture Hall / Auditorium

Topic

Joint meeting with Lugor and OWASP Rochester. Ralph Durkee, of Lugor and OWASP Rochester will deliver a presentation about Apache Web Server and Web App Firewall w/ Mod_security.

]]>ausimage 2010-03-30T01:38:17Z Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:38:17 GMT