[SGVLUG] Feb meeting recap

[James McDuffie]

It was mentioned in the meeting about adding Drupal to the SGVTech
banner. I could do that, but i'd like to see someone else try their
hand, maybe you can come up with something better. So, if anyone is up
for improving the SGVTech meetup banner then please feel free to use
the banner source (Gimp XCF format) and other logos and images from
this git repo:

[1]https://github.com/SGVTech/images





On Thu, Feb 13, 2014, at 11:05 PM, Lan Dang wrote:


We had a good meeting.  Lot of announcements and discussions and great
talks. There were 28 or 29 people; several new faces.

Burger Continental has been working well as a venue.  The new layout
with all the tables down the center worked out pretty well.  We may
need to tell  future speakers not to depend on the venue's wifi,
because the signal is poor near the projector.  We still have to work
out some kinks in the meeting format.  I like the venue because we are
a lot more social.  But there are a few more distractions,  which might
be disconcerting to the presenter of the month.

Richard reported on social media and found that Linked In and Meetup
seems to work best for our group.   The SGVTech Meetup group is very
active, since it includes meetups for the Ubuntu Hour, SGVLUG, SGVHAK,
and SGVDrupal.  The meetups are not just for the regular monthly
meetings.  Anyone can suggest a meetup, so this includes conferences,
hackathons, or other events that might be of interest to a subset of
the group.


James explained how the SGVLUG website is updated.  It is hosted on
GitHub and generated using Pelican, a Python-based static site
generator.  He made a tool that can generate meeting notices by pulling
the information directly from Meetup.  Presentation slides here:
http://sgvlug.github.io/website_presentation/#slide1

Jess gave a very approachable and enthusiastic introduction to
GStreamer, an open source multimedia framework that is used by various
popular media applications and has a lot of options if you want to
build your own media app.

John Kim gave a preview of the talk he's giving for the SCALE The Next
Generation track.  It was a walk through the history of open source
with vivid depictions of some pivotal figures like Linus Torvalds and
Richard Stallman.

Jess and Michael Starch started off a discussion about hackerspaces.
Null Space Labs is having to move from their downtown location, so they
might end up closer to the San Gabriel Valley.  The company that bought
Hackaday has been making noises about starting up a hackerspace.
Christefano talked about his efforts with the Pasadena City College
Continuing Education Center (CEC).


Lan

References

1. https://github.com/SGVTech/images
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