[SGVLUG] Soliciting speakers for February and beyond

Doug Vargas dougvargas at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jan 29 10:28:05 PST 2013


That sounds awesome, I know you've been talking about it for a while, do 
you have a prototype built or is it still in the design phase?

On 01/29/2013 09:33 AM, Braddock Gaskill wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'd like to present at the April LUG meeting if it is still open.
>
> I want to unveil my "Internet In A Box" project, which is a pocket-sized
> solar powered wifi hotspot which contains mirrors of Wikipedia in a dozen
> languages, global maps down to street level, tens of thousands of Gutenberg
> e-books, instructional videos, most of the world's Open Source software,
> etc, all optimized for mobile phone use.  The idea is to deploy this to
> schools with poor or no internet connectivity.
>
> -braddock
>
>
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 02:10:48 -0800 (PST), Lan Dang <l.dang at ymail.com>
> wrote:
>> AFAIK, here is the line up for the rest of 2013:
>>
>> Feb 7 - Lan Dang  on SGVLUG website and vim tips roundtable
>>
>> Mar 8 - Steven Doran on DDWRT
>> Apr 11 - OPEN
>> May 9 - OPEN
>> Jun 13 - OPEN
>> Jul 11 - OPEN
>> Aug 8 - OPEN
>> Sep 12 - OPEN
>> Oct 10 - OPEN
>> Nov 14 - OPEN
>> Dec 12 - OPEN
>>
>>
>> Again, I strongly encourage people to get up and give a 5 or 10 minute
>> talk
>> about some cool tool they use, or something they learned recently.  You
>> may think it is such a simple thing that -everyone- must know about it,
>> but you would be wrong.  I was unreasonably excited to learn about
>> setfacl and getfacl at work today because there were many times when I
>> had wanted to modify file permissions for a small set of users, but
>> thought my only option was to use groups.
>>
>>
>> I had intended on doing a brief walkthrough of how to edit  the
>> SGVLUG website, which is hosted on github and powered by Octopress.    I
>> am hoping to use my new sdf.org account to do this.
>>
>> I think I'd also like to give a small talk about vi/vim, some of my
>> favorite commands, and the new ones I'm trying to internalize.    I hope
>> that people can speak up to share the commands they find useful, and we
> can
>> all expand our repertoires.
>>
>> I can share a vim tip right now that will prove quite useful to certain
>> people.  (I have heard complaints relating to this two or three times.)
> If
>> you want to paste text into vim and you don't want any auto-formatting
> to
>> be done to it--like autoindent--you need to use paste mode, which you
>> access through command mode using
>>
>>
>> :set paste
>> Go into insert mode and paste your text.
>>
>>
>> When you're done,  go back to command mode and type:
>> :set nopaste
>>
>>
>> When you're in paste mode, INSERT (paste) appears at the bottom of your
>> screen.
>>
>> Lan




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