Vancouver Linux Users Group

Vancouver Linux Users Group
http://www.vanlug.bc.ca

Mon, 15 February 2010 7:30 - 9:00 pm
** BCIT, Building SW1 Room 1025 **

_A special two meeting presentation!_

Andrew Daviel: Introduction to IPv6

The Internet Protocol, version 4 (IPv4), with its familiar dotted-quad
addresses, is 30 years old. It works fairly well, but there's a
problem - there are not enough addresses, and within a couple of years
they will run out. A new version of the protocol (IPv6) was introduced
in 1995, which has a vastly larger address space, but it is
incompatible and implementation has been slow. I will talk about the
basic concepts, and business case for IPv6 deployment.

Vancouver Linux Users Group
http://www.vanlug.bc.ca

Mon, 18 January 2010 7:30 - 9:30 pm
** BCIT, Building SW1 Room 1025 **

Bruce Byfield: Sexism in the FOSS Community?

I'm sorry, but procrastination reigns, and I've put off making arrangements for the Christmas party far too long. The end result is that there won't be a VanLUG Christmas party this year. I'll try to make it up by having some especially good talks for 2010.

Kim Kulak
VanLUG Chair

Mon, 16 November 2009 7:30 - 9:00 pm
** BCIT, Bldg. SW1, Room 1021 **
** Same room as last month.

LinuxCon 2009

We don't have a flesh-and-blood speaker for November so we're going to use the technology and do it virtually! I've downloaded a few videos recorded at LinuxCon 2009. We'll hear from Joe Brockmeier, Mark Shuttleworth, and a few other well known Linux luminaries. See you there!

Mon, 19 October 2009 7:30 - 9:00 pm
** BCIT, Bldg. SW1, Room 1021 **
** Same room as last month.

Recall: Data Protection Services
Bob McCartney

Bob McCartney from Recall missed us last month.
So this month he will do a short presentation on Recalls data
protection and information management services.

Assistive Technology in Linux
Alex Jurgensen

Accessibility is one of the biggest and hottest topics on the minds of
small developers. The realm of accessibility exposes a market eager to
get away from the chains of assistive technology venders that charge
high prices and offer very little in terms of return for investments.
Companies such as Apple have led the way to freedom in the past few
years. During this time a movement has begun to bring accessibility to
main stream projects. In a little more than four months since iPhone
had accessibility added, developers have been teaming with delight to
serve the newest edition of their customer base. Likewise, OSS
projects such as Loadstone and Webkit are bringing greater

Mon, 21 September 2009 7:30 - 9:00 pm
BCIT, Bldg. SW1, Room 1021

Recall: Data Protection Services
Bob McCartney

Hackerspaces: Making, Sharing, Hacking and Doing Things
Joe Bowser

Bob McCartney from Recall http://recall.com/ will do a short presentation on Recalls data protection and information management services.

Joe Bowser will then talk about hackerspaces in general and specifically VHS , the Vancouver Hacker Space http://vancouver.hackspace.ca/doku.php. The hackerspace movement is a relatively new movement of collaborative spaces throughout the world. These spaces, called "YMCA for geeks", are places where Makers, Crafters, Hackers and other people who have knowledge to share and projects to do can come together to work on them in a collaborative atmosphere.