From kc8zpq at gmail.com Fri Aug 12 20:17:26 2016 From: kc8zpq at gmail.com (Thomas Wodarek) Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 20:17:26 -0400 Subject: [GRLUG] Are You Ready for BarCampGR 2016?! (August 26,27) Message-ID: Geeks, makers, and programmers lend me your inboxes! The eleventh annual BarCampGR will be on Friday, August 26 and Saturday, August 27, 2016 at Calvin College’s DeVos Communications Center. To register and attend for free, visit: http://barcampgr.org/register/ New to BarCampGR or want more information? Read on! What is BarCampGR? BarCampGR is about meeting interesting people, talking about what you want to talk about, and listening to what you're interested in. Subjects of discussion have ranged from web programming and digital photography to computer vision and turkey basting. (No, there wasn't a talk on having a computer visually monitor your turkey, but if you've tried it, you're welcome to report on your experiences!) You see, the talks are not set beforehand. It's you, the attendees, who give BarCampGR direction and content. What's the format? Presentations are 25 minutes long, with five minutes in between. You're welcome to sit in on a presentation or hang around in the lounge and talk; it's all the same with us. If you run a presentation, we don't care how you run it - so long as you don't get us in trouble! Give a monologue, a Q&A or a round table; it's your topic, your presentation, your audience. If people didn't want to spend 25 minutes on your topic, they wouldn't be there. Please be considerate when signing up for multiple talks at the start of the conference. If you see slots lingering open later on, feel free to fill them in then. Don't know what to talk about? Certainly you have some relatively unique experiences. What do you do for a hobby? What's something you managed to fix that you're proud of? It doesn't matter if the height of your accomplishment is changing your car's oil or if you've war-driven half of the Grand Rapids area; if people are interested, they will show up at your talk. If they aren’t interested, they will probably attend one of the other talks during that time. But I'm not an expert! Sure you are! If you know the first thing about a subject, you know more than people who don't. And, yes, people who know more than you will probably attend your presentation. Interact with them; you both have something to learn from each other. Chances are, if you're both really interested in a subject, you'll find yourselves looking for each other in the lounge later. But perhaps you're... Shy? That's fine. Come on in, take a look around and get a feel for things. It's a two-day event; come by on Friday, sit in on the presentations which interest you or hang around in the lounge and network with other people. Perhaps you'll be inspired to talk about something later or on Saturday. You never really know. If you'd like to be able to listen, but don't know if you'll have anything to say, you can still... Help Out On the days of the event itself, we typically need greeters, people to babysit the facility overnight (some folks stay overnight), people to respond to technical issues such as "why won't the projector work with my laptop" and "could someone turn down the lights so we could see the screen?" We also have a Slack organization again this year, slack.barcampgr.org. Use it to ask for certain subjects to be covered (#topic-requests ). Use it to offer subjects that you can talk about. During the event, use it to have live discussions about things with people who aren't immediately present. After the event, use it to post supplemental materials and ask followup questions. We have a lot of other ways you can keep up to date on BarCampGR news and updates via the following social media outlets: - Website: http://barcampgr.org - Twitter: @barcampgr - Slack: http://slack.barcampgr.org/ ( Replaces IRC ) - Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/BarCampGR/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/BarCampGR/112347402141619 - Google+: https://plus.google.com/b/116952079842867940611/ Also, if you'd like to help us organize BarCampGR, then sign up for the BarCampGR Organizers' Email Group and jump right into the conversation at http://lists.barcampgr.org/listinfo.cgi/organizers-barcampgr.org, or join the Slack team noted above. T-Shirts will be available online for purchase, details will be sent out once that’s ready. Don’t worry, we'll have other free swag at BarCampGR this year. CODE OF CONDUCT You can read our code of conduct here: - http://barcampgr.org/code-of-conduct/ REGISTRATION - http://barcampgr.org/register/ LOCATION DeVos Communications Center at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI SCHEDULE Friday, August 26, 2016 5:00-6:00 PM - Check-in and setup 6:00-7:00 PM - Dinner 7:00 PM - Kick things off with opening session 7:30-9:30 PM - Sessions every 1/2 hour 9:30 PM - After party Overnight 10:00 PM-whenever the next morning - Camping, all-night hacking, etc. There will be plenty of room to crash on Friday night, so bring a sleeping bag. Better yet, bring a tent for the geek base camp. You can also reserve clean, close accommodations at Calvin College’s Prince conference Center (http://www.calvin.edu/prince/accommodations/). Saturday, August 27, 2016 9:00-10:00 AM - Continental Breakfast 10:00 AM-12:00 PM - Sessions every 1/2 hour 12:00-1:00 PM - Lunch 1:00-2:00 PM - 5 minute Lightning Talks 2:00-4:00 PM - Sessions every 1/2 hour 4:00-4:30 PM - Closing session 4:30-5:30 PM - Cleanup Note, despite the 'bar' in BarCampGR, the event doesn't take place in a bar, only the (optional) Friday after-party does. See you there! BarCampGR 2016 Organizers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From collink at kkmfg.com Sat Aug 13 16:49:41 2016 From: collink at kkmfg.com (Collin Kidder) Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 16:49:41 -0400 Subject: [GRLUG] Embedded GR Message-ID: I'd like to invite any interested people to the Embedded GR meetup: https://www.meetup.com/embedded-gr/ The next meeting is the last weds in September. We meet every other month. The meetings are about a different topic relating to embedded development each month. This next meeting is "software development platforms" People will be talking about mbed, arduino, launchpad. I'd like to see more presentations. It'd be cool to see someone talk about rpi or beaglebone. Also, it would be good if anyone wants to talk about a project they did that involves one of the well known platforms. So, not only am I inviting people to come, I'd like to extend an invitation to come talk about your favorite development platform or project. Attendance is free but you should register with meetup and specify that you're going because it also includes free pizza and soda so they need to know how many people are going to be there. Yes, this message is a little off topic but less so if someone can come and talk about Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone and their use of Linux. Or, talk about linux on embedded systems in general. From jwm8351 at yahoo.com Wed Aug 24 17:37:38 2016 From: jwm8351 at yahoo.com (Joseph McLaughlin) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 21:37:38 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [GRLUG] Best os and IDE for java - I was planning on netbeans! In-Reply-To: References: <4EACC26B.6040301@zuzax.com> <4EAD839A.5090506@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1601866286.1750571.1472074659004@mail.yahoo.com> I have eight core machine with vmware installed on it.I was planning on doing some java code.I was going to create vm for just java coding. I was planning on using netbeans.What distro would be recommended? Any thoughts? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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