[ubuntu-us-mi] ubuntu-us-mi] Penguicon Participation

[Bradley McMahon]

yes the beagle board and sheeva plug are great examples even if they they
are 4 times the price of the WRT54G or NSLU2. I think a talks on AVR/
Arduino, open embedded,  open hardware would be awesome as well.

-Brad



On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:05 PM, James Ronald <james.ronald at gmail.com> wrote:

> - In regard to Linux on embedded devices what about the Beagle Board
> and Sheeva Plug which can actually run Ubuntu?  The NSLU2 and WRT54G
> were cool in their day but not that interesting so many years later.
> Oh, and what about OpenOCD?
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Bradley McMahon <bradmcmahon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > As for a beginners classes I have Craig teaching Camp Unix early Saturday
> > morning in the computer lab, I don't know what topics he plans to talk
> about
> > though. There are a few classes I would like to see.
> > - intro to iptables and firewalls
> > - Linux and Media - introduce a few media players and their functions,
> show
> > how to use a phone and portable media player on linux, talk about media
> > servers on linux, rtorrent,...
> > -Linux and your beige box - talk about the cool things you can do on a
> linux
> > server with limit speed and memory.
> > -Linux on embedded devices - WRT54G, NSLU2, NASes. Most of our embedded
> low
> > wattage devices in our house already run linux, so how do we exploit them
> to
> > their full potential.
> > -Command line Fu - talk on spec-ing out your linux install's terminal and
> > some neat functions of the command line, such as all the math you can do
> > with bc or the famous pi calc to benchmark your cpu.
> > If you have more ideas let me hear them or if you want to give a talk let
> me
> > know.
> >
> > -Brad
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:53 AM, gib at juno.com <gib at juno.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Um, I'm sure we can think of a lot of good ideas.  I just wonder if some
> >> type of introductory sessions could be provided to educate the
> non-computer
> >> types.  Set some specific short sessions that show the artists how to
> use
> >> the Ubuntu applications for drawing/illustrating/video editing. Music
> groups
> >> could learn the audio software too.
> >>
> >> Other hobbies that would benefit from Ubuntu?  I'm surprised when I see
> >> someone buying expensive special interest software.  Perhaps we can
> devise a
> >> list of free software that is included in Ubuntu (should already be a
> list
> >> somewhere) that could be distributed at Penguicon.
> >>
> >> ---------- Original Message ----------
> >> From: Craig Maloney <craig at decafbad.net>
> >> To: Ubuntu Michigan Local Community Team <ubuntu-us-mi at lists.ubuntu.com
> >
> >> Subject: [ubuntu-us-mi] Penguicon Participation
> >> Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:24:05 -0500
> >>
> >> Evening, everyone!
> >>
> >> At our last IRC meeting (which as a few minutes ago) and the topic of
> >> what to do as a loco at Penguicon was broached. Some of the ideas that
> >> were put forth were:
> >>
> >>  * Ubuntu Bug Triage / Jam (this has been done in the past with great
> >> success)
> >>  * Ubuntu Packaging Jam
> >>  * Room Party of some form (could include some of the above)
> >>   * Also could include an "ask the expert" portion.
> >>
> >> These are just a sample of the proposed ideas. I'm sure there are more
> >> out there that haven't been covered. What would you like to see the loco
> >> do at Penguicon?
> >>
> >>
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