[Ubuntu Oregon] Ubuntu Hour Friday

[Phil N]

Hi all,
We had a total of 6 members attend tonight's meeting, and had a great time
at Broadway Coffeehouse.
Big thanks to Cody for asking Che and Linda to attend, and for creating our
event page.  It was great to have met Che, Linda, and Tom.

We covered a wide range of topics; Linode.com - A Virtual Private Server
(VPN) service, Powerline - A status line plugin for Vim, Termite - An easy
to use and configure RS232 terminal program, Recalbox.com - A retro-gaming
operating systems with Kodi already included, and Recalbox runs on
Raspberry Pi.  Plus various ways to install Ubuntu in order to lock-it-down
making it more secure.

During the meeting, I promised I'd include some links to retro arcade
buttons, for that true authentic arcade feel.

The i-PAC2 is a USB "keyboard encoder" with 32 inputs and support for
trackball and spinner. Is fully programmable key code set.  The i-PAC2
looks to the host PC as a standard USB keyboard, which I really like
because there is no drivers to install.  The Mini-PAC is similar to i-PAC2
except Mini supports PS/2 via optional USB to PS/2 adapter.

The i-PAC2 and Mini-PAC can be found at ultimarc.com.

Here is where I've found some other arcade stuff, just do a search for
"arcade button", or "concave button" while at these sites.

Mouser: www.mouser.com
Concave Button - various colors, with Microswitch for $1.95/ea.
Note: Mouser purchases their buttons from Sparkfun, and sells them for the
same SRP.

Sparkfun: www.sparkfun.com
Concave Button - various colors, with Microswitch for $1.95/ea.

Banggood.com: www.banggood.com
Arcade button - various colors, with Microswitch for $1.69/ea.

Bob's parts: is the least expensive..
http://www.therealbobroberts.net/parts.html#buttons
Happ "Microswitch Pushbutton Complete" - various colors, with Microswitch
for $1.25/ea


Our next Salem Ubuntu Hour meetings will be February 3rd/17th, same bat
place, same bat time.

Thanks everyone for supporting our community, great meeting.
Phil. N.



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On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Che Dean <dean.che at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great to finally be in Salem, thanks to Phil N for the awesome welcome.
> We're just heading to the Broadway Coffeehouse now. If you see a guy that
> looks kind of like a giant gnome you'll know we've arrived.
>
> See you soon
> Che
>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017, 5:03 PM Phil N <philn at delfinomicro.com> wrote:
>
>> Hay everyone,
>> Che and Linda have arrived in Salem, was able to meet up with them at the
>> Garten Store, where Linda bought a nice Lenovo, for I'm guessing Ubuntu...
>> ;-)  WTG Che and Linda.
>>
>> Come on down to Broadway Coffeehouse, located at 1300 Broadway St NE,
>> here in Salem, from 6:00pm to 7:00pm, and meet up with Che and his wife
>> Linda.  This month we will be in the Dallas Room, 204. Located upstairs
>> towards the back directly across from the elevators.  Please don't forget
>> to mention your part of Ubuntu when you pick up a drink downstairs.
>>
>> Cody has created a LoCo event page, please use the following link (below)
>> to his event page to register for this event, doing so will help get us
>> counted by Canonical, and help with further sponsorship.  - Thanks Cody
>> Event page: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-us-or/3498-
>> salem-ubuntu-hour/
>>
>> Also we met a couple of people while at the Garten Store, who use Ubuntu,
>> and invited them to attend.
>>
>> Thanks all,
>> Phil. N
>>
>>
>>
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>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Che Dean <dean.che at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Here's today's plan:
>>
>> Arrive in Salem between 1 PM and 2 PM (stopping off for lunch on our way)
>>
>> 2 PM to 2:30 PM Head to Garten and hopefully meet up with Phil N
>>
>> Between 3 PM and 5 PM visit Heritage Center or just take a look around
>> Salem
>>
>> Somewhere between 5 PM and 6 PM head to Broadway for some fine coffee and
>> even better company.
>>
>> If at any point people want to meet us just drop us a note on here, G+,
>> Twitter @CheDean or if you use Telegram I'm @Kereltis (
>> https://telegram.me/Kereltis)
>>
>> See you later
>>
>> Che
>> •••
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017, 10:26 PM Cody Smith <cody.smith at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> Come join us for talk about tech, Ubuntu, Linux, and whatever else comes
>> up! But please, purchase something from the coffeehouse we'll be at as they
>> have set that restriction on anyone using their space. The address is 1300
>> Broadway (on the corner of Broadway and Gaines) in Salem, OR.
>>
>> Event page: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-us-or/3498-
>> salem-ubuntu-hour/ Please RSVP so the paperwork that wxl has to do is
>> easier.
>>
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