Past SCOSUG Meetings

March, 2010:

Meeting Topic: Drupal

Where: ISG
When: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 5:00pm

Aldon Hynes lead an interesting discussion about the open source content web management system, Drupal.

Aldon started working with Drupal in 2003 as part of DeanSpace, a project to use Drupal to provide social networking sites for Gov. Dean's 2004 presidential bid.  Since then, he has setup and supported hundred's of Drupal based website serving various groups around Connecticut and around the world.

January, 2010:

Meeting Topic: DIY Freeduino

Where: ISG
When: Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010, 3:00pm

Please sign up for the class, as there will be limited seating.

Part the first: Build your own Arduino/Freeduino open source hardware.  Purchase of a kit and an RSVP is required.  Click the link above for details.

Later, around 6:30'ish, our annual holiday party. Open to all!  We're doing it in January rather than December this year, so as to appear to be fashionably late.  At least, that's the story we're sticking with.

November, 2009:

Meeting Topic: Quantum Computing

Where: ISG
When: Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, 6:30pm

A team lead by Yale University Professors of Physics/Applied Physics Michel Devoret, Steven Girvin and Rob Schoelkopf have created the first working solid state quantum processor.  Prof. Girvin presented us with a fascinating talk based on this interesting research and its results.

October, 2009:

Meeting Topic: XMPP/Jabber

Where: ISG
When: Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009, 6:30pm

Jonathan E. Magen gave a wonderful presentation about Jabber/XMPP.  Details here.

September, 2009:

Meeting Topic: Chuck Skuba Presents: VoIP

Where: ISG
When: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 6:30pm

Chuck Skuba of Megapath joined us to discuss Voice over Internet Protocol.

We will be posting slides, SIP packet dump logs, etc., related to this meeting.  Check back!

August 30, 2009:

Meeting Topic: Annual Picnic!

Where: Chatfield Hollow State Park
When: August 30, 2009, 1pm - ~6pm

Summer is here and if you haven't passed out from the humidity of late, you might be interested in joining your fellow geeks for the SCOSUG Summer Picnic!

For information about Chatfield Hollow, see the CT DEP link.

Everyone is welcome, bring family or friends. SCOSUG will provide the grilling API and eating interfaces. Food and drink will be pot-luck so drop me an email if you plan on attending and what you plan on bringing!

Hope to see you all there!

July 19, 2009:

Meeting Topic: LPI Test Prep

Where: Innovation Software Group, Wallingford, CT
When: July 19, 2009, 6pm

Join us at ISG to discuss and prepare for LPI testing.

See this forum thread for more details.

April 24, 2009:

Meeting Topic: KEW

Where: SCSU, EN D 125
When: April 24, 2009, 11am

This meeting's topic is about KEW (http://kew.kuali.org/).

KEW is a workflow automation system that facilitates the automation of electronic processes across the enterprise.

More details available on the forum post.

April 4, 2009:

Intro To Open Source

Where: SCSU, New Haven, CT

When: April 4,2009 @ 7pm

Nicholas Brenckle gave a presentation on an Introduction to Open Source

Slides for the presentation are available HERE in flash format, or HERE in PDF format.

Don't forget to sign up for the SCOSUG annoucement mailing list!

September 2008:

Meeting Topic: Intechra

Where: Innovation Software Group, Wallingford, CT
When: September 21, 2008, 6pm

Melanie Jacques from Intechra gave an excellent presentation on computer & electronics recycling. As a bonus, an Intechra truck rolled right up to the meeting to haul away all of our "old and busteds".

If you've got old, dead equipment someone's been hounding you to get rid of,or are looking to buy recycled computer hardware (desktops, servers, printers... the works!) check out Intechra.

March 30, 2008:

Meeting Topic: BUG + Meet & Greet

Where: Innovation Software Group, Wallingford, CT
When: March 30th, 2008, 6pm

Al Gordon demonstrated the BUG platform.

The BUGbase ("Hiro P" edition shown here) is a fully programmable computer, with a CPU, RAM, rechargeable lithium-ion battery, USB, Ethernet, MMC and serial interfaces, and a small LCD with button controls. BUGbase also has 4 slots in which any combination of BUGmodules may be inserted. BUGbase programming is done with the BUG SDK and BUGnet.

All hardware and software is Open Source.

More details at the Bug Labs website.

This was also a meet and greet meeting, for long-time members to get up to speed with each other as to what we've each been doing, as well as greet some new members.

August 2007:

Meeting Topic: SCOSUG Annual Picnic

Where: Sleeping Giant State Park
When: August 25, 2007, 1pm

More details can be found in our forums.

September 2006:

How I spent my Summer Vacation

(aka. "the trials and tribulations of building a MythTV") 

Where: Innovation Software Group, North Haven, CT
When: Wednesday, Sept 20, 2006, 7pm till whenever

Nick Brenckle and Gary Cuozzo will discuss their experiences with building MythTV systems.

In a nutshell, MythTV is an open source TiVO clone.  Come and see what's involved in building your own, and learn from Nick and Gary's mista^H^H^H^H^Hexperiences. 

SWAG!

We gave out several boxed copies of Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 to attendees, compliments of Terrasoft Solutions.  We still have a few more, if you're interested.

If you run Linux on Mac hardware, YDL is a slick distro.  Try it out!

August 2006:

Annual SCOSUG Summer Bar-B-Q!

Where: Sleeping Giant State Park, Hamden, CT
When: Saturday, August 19th, 2pm until close

This year, we're returning to Sleeping Giant State Park as the site of our annual picnic.

There are a lot of fun things to do there, and we'll attempt to do most of them.  There's picnic areas, hiking trails, a cool old tower at the top of the hill to poke around in.

Various members of the group will be bringing some kind of food in a pot-luck manner, and some of the basic requirements (charcoal, meat (or veggie substitutes, etc.) have been coordinated by the SCOSUG executive board.

There'll probably be a frisbee or two, or even a football or something to throw around.  Maybe we'll play wiffleball.  You never know what we'll do when we all get in "the big room" together. 

There are also a lot of trees, filled with squirrels, so be on the lookout!