[SGVLUG] Soliciting speakers for February and beyond

Braddock Gaskill braddock at braddock.com
Tue Jan 29 10:36:36 PST 2013


On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:28:05 -0800, Doug Vargas <dougvargas at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
> 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?

I'll have a working device before April that you will be able to use from
your mobile during my talk.  I have most of the pieces I need now.  I might
discuss the work a bit at the next HAK.

-braddock


> 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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