All Acadiana residents with an interest in open source technologies are invited to attend the February 2010 meeting of the Acadiana Open Source Group on Thursday February 25 at 6:30 p.m.
The meeting will be held in the LITE Center. If you need directions, check out this map. The meeting will include roundtable discussion of any open source-related topics as well as a tour of the LITE Center facilities for anyone interested.
Please remember to help to spread the word about the meeting to family, friends, classmates, and colleagues so we can get a good turnout!
All Acadiana residents with an interest in open source technologies are invited to attend the January 2010 meeting of the Acadiana Open Source Group on Thursday January 28 at 6:30 p.m.
The meeting will be held in the LITE Center. This is a change in venue from past meetings, which were conducted in the UL Computer Science Department. UL has our thanks for their continued support. We welcome our new sponsor, the LITE Center, and our thanks go out to their staff as well for offering their facilities to host our future meetings. If you need directions to the LITE Center, check out this map.
This meeting will also break from the routine of past meetings and return to a format focused on a technical presentation. This is not a permanent change, but rather one that is appropriate for the first meeting in the new venue. LITE Center Technical Manager Thomas McPoyle will be speaking on how the LITE Center uses open source software. A tour of the facilities will also take place.
Please remember to help to spread the word about the meeting to family, friends, classmates, and colleagues so we can get a good turnout!
Thanks to all who attended the December 2009 meeting of the Acadiana Open Source Group. Only a few members attended, but the discussion was enjoyed and included a variety of topics. Thanks again to the UL Computer Science Department for hosting this meeting.
Highlights
- The recent demo of Google's Chrome OS project
- The imminent release of the Mozilla Thunderbird 3 e-mail client and Mozilla Firefox 3.6 web browser this month
- The adoption of the open source Zimbra webmail and collaboration application by UL
- Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10) upgrade woes - may be best to stick with Jaunty Jackalope (9.04)
- Android versus Java ME and use of the Eclipse IDE for mobile development
- MIT OpenCourseWare, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and the possibility of a similar but more cohesive project for open textbooks
Upcoming Events
- Arrangements have been made to relocate future Acadiana Open Source Group meetings to the LITE Center. This should stabilize facility and parking availability without moving meetings very far from UL campus. This move will kick off at the January meeting with a tour of the facility by LITE staff and a presentation on how they apply open source technologies to what they do.
- The Lafayette Developer Network or LFTDevNet is hosting a code-a-thon as part of the Great American Hackathon event hosted by the Sunlight Foundation. The object of this code-a-thon will be the DataLFT project, an effort inspired by the DataSF project to create a public database of information for the city of Lafayette using open source technologies. The event will be held at the Travis Street Technology Center on Saturday December 12th beginning at 9:30 AM.
- Do It With Drupal, a training seminar on the Drupal content management system, will be held December 9-12 at the Marriot in New Orleans.
- If you know of any other OSS events, please post information and a link to the AOS Google Group. Thanks in advance for your contribution.
All Acadiana residents with an interest in open source technologies are invited to attend the December 2009 meeting of the Acadiana Open Source Group on Thursday December 3 at 6:30 p.m.
The meeting will be held in the Advanced Computer Technology and Research building on UL campus thanks to arrangements made by faculty of the Computer Science Department for us to use their facilities. Signs will be posted around the building on the day of the meeting to direct attendees. Parking is available in Zone 13. See this map for locations of the parking lot and the ACTR building.
This meeting continue using the round-table discussion format where any variety of open source-related topics may be discussed. This includes projects and interests of the individuals present as well as potential projects, other activities, and goals for AOS itself.
Please remember to help to spread the word about the meeting to family, friends, classmates, and colleagues so we can get a good turnout!
All Acadiana residents with an interest in open source technologies are invited to attend the October 2009 meeting of the Acadiana Open Source Group on Thursday October 29 at 6:30 p.m.
The meeting will be held in the Advanced Computer Technology and Research building on UL campus thanks to arrangements made by faculty of the Computer Science Department for us to use their facilities. Signs will be posted around the building on the day of the meeting to direct attendees. Parking is available in Zone 13. See this map for locations of the parking lot and the ACTR building.
This meeting continue using the round-table discussion format where any variety of open source-related topics may be discussed. This includes projects and interests of the individuals present as well as potential projects, other activities, and goals for AOS itself.
Please remember to help to spread the word about the meeting to family, friends, classmates, and colleagues so we can get a good turnout!