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1 2006 Talks

2006 Talks

14-11-2006: AGM: SWUG (Scarborough Wireless User Group) A Freifunk & OLSR case study

Presenter: Antoine van Gelder, David Carman, and Jan Groenewald
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

Notes: Talk slides 1 (Antoine and David) Talk slides 2 (Jan)

Motions passed

Constitutional amendments:
- Committee members may be excused from meetings without forfeiting their membership.
- Committee meetings won't be minuted (they never really have been). Any important decisions will by publically announced on the mailing lists, as has been the custom.
Re-elect all current committee members
Elect Neil Blakey Milner to the committee

Motions rejected

Amend the constitution to reduce public AGM notification to 3 days notice.

31-10-2006: Ubuntu and its derivatives

Presenter: Jonathan Carter
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

10-10-2006: Toys and Little Games on Linux

Presenter: Marc Welz
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

Notes: Talk Slides (in groff)

26-09-2006: Chat Protocols (IRC, SILC, Jabber, etc)

Presenter: Spinach (together with Jonathan Hitchcock)
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

12-09-2006: An introduction to RDF (Resource Description Framework)

Presenter: Russell Cloran
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

Notes: Russell's Masters page

29-08-2006: What is Security all about?

Presenter: Hendrik Visage
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

08-08-2006: Writing X applications using gtk

Presenter: Dr. Marc Welz
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

25-07-2006: The Linux boot process

Presenter: Abraham vd Merwe
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

11-07-2006: XEN

Presenter: Frogs
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

Notes:

Xen is a virtual machine monitor, or hypervisor, used to run multiple instances of (possibly different) operating systems on one physical machine. Its functionality includes:

Virtual machines with performance close to native hardware; Live virtual host migration between physical hosts; Excellent hardware support.

We will demonstrate various aspects of administering a Xen machine including describing the admin tools, setting up networking and the fun bit: live migrations.

There will be a few xen-related prizes and give-aways for attendees courtesy of Frogfoot Networks.