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The notes on Brian Brodsky’s favorite podcasts including the last two that he did not have time to cover at the August 2016 SIG-Linux meeting are at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxD-6ro_Q8n1aTN6aHN3eU9hU00/view?usp=sharing
If people from the group email me links to the podcasts or sites they shared at the meeting I will post a list of those as well.
We are learning Python using the book “Learning Python” by Mark Lutz. It is an O’Reilly book http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028154.do, but can also be purchased at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Python-5th-Mark-Lutz/dp/1449355730/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416007152&sr=1-1&pebp=11416007164251.
We are to read Chapter 23, “Module Coding Basics” for the next meeting. If you have any questions contact Richard Jackson (see below). All are welcome to come.
Where: Richard Jackson’s home. Call Richard Jackson at 248-546-3694 for directions.
When: Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 2:00 P.M.
Mike Bader, president of SEMCO, will start the meeting and make general announcements.
When: Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 1:30 P.M.
Where: Altair Engineering, Inc., 1820 E. Big Beaver Rd., Troy, MI 48083
Map to meetings at Altair Engineering
Robert Neff is our presenter and the presentation will cover… What will our life be like with autonomous vehicles? Will it be the anticipated utopia or will there are new concerns that have to be considered? How will people regard the disrupting technology as it evolves?
The presentation provides a history of Automated Vehicles and Highways going back to 1925. The speaker was Technical Leader for his company’s participation in the 1997 National Automated Highway Demonstration where autonomous vehicles were successfully demonstrated to be technologically feasible on a prototype automated highway in San Diego.
Automated features are being introduced on today’s automobiles. Many more features are in product development and nearing production. The presentation will discuss adoption of these features and will show how vehicle to vehicle communication will facilitate the future of autonomous vehicles.
Finally, the presentation will offer a future vision of what life may be like with autonomous vehicles.
Robert Neff has done many thing in his life and currently is engaged in Sales and Marketing for companies involved in high technology products, projects and people. Sales and Marketing Insight is Bob’s strategic marketing company.
Robert is a corporate officer in the Intrass Corporation, which is a startup company involved in patented 5.9 GHz Dedicated Short Range Radio Communication (DSRC) technology for Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications.
Robert is past Chairman of the SAE DSRC Vehicle Safety Subcommittee and is a current member of the SAE DSRC Standards Technical Committee that has written the interoperability standard J2735 so vehicles can communicate with each other and with the infrastructure (V2V and V2I). The committee has recently published J2945 which displays the Common Performance Requirements for DSRC communication.
Robert retired from Eaton Corporation where he held various technical, marketing and managerial positions. The majority of Bob’s time at Eaton was spent in the VORAD Division working on collision warning, adaptive cruise control and blind spot warning using 24 GHz and 77GHz radar. Bob was Technical Lead for Eaton’s participation in the National Automated Highway Demonstration in 1997.
Robert has served since January 2014 as Chairman of IEEE Southeastern Michigan (SEM) Section.
Also: Questions and Answers following the presentation and during the social period before the SIG-Linux meeting. Snacks available during the social period.
When: Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 1:45 P.M.
Where: Altair Engineering, Inc., 1820 E. Big Beaver Rd., Troy, MI 48083
Map to meetings at Altair Engineering
SIG-Linux Chairman Brian Brodsky will lead a discussion of the groups favorite podcasts, YouTube and Hangouts channels, and websites. So come and share your favorites with the group.
All are welcome.
When: Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 4:00 P.M.
Where: Altair Engineering, Inc., 1820 E. Big Beaver Rd., Troy, MI 48083
Map to meetings at Altair Engineering
Free Wi-Fi available. Our thanks to Altair Engineering, Inc. for providing our meeting space!
The notes from today’s news portion are below. Have a super week, and please keep the discussion going!
Thank you to Sharan Kalwani for filling in on such short notice on June 12, 2016 and providing an excellent presentation on Linux technologies (Containers & Docker)!
Sharan has provided a copy of his slides at:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxD-6ro_Q8n1SzdENGFFT1V6dzg/view?usp=sharing
Mike Bader, president of SEMCO, will start the meeting and make general announcements.
When: Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 1:30 P.M.
Where: Altair Engineering, Inc., 1820 E. Big Beaver Rd., Troy, MI 48083
Map to meetings at Altair Engineering
ProShow Gold 7.0 is without a doubt the best software for creating multi-media shows. Bill Buchanan will demonstrate how easy it is to create a polished slide shows that include images, video and royalty free music. He will offer tips and suggestions on organizing your shows on your PC and also how to save and back up all media files.
G. William Buchanan, FPSA, FGDC has been involved with photography almost his entire life. His passion for teaching photography has been fostered by being chairman of the Photo Guild of Detroit’s Annual Photographic Seminar. Bill has presented many instructional programs in the Detroit area as well as at NECCC, SWMCC and PSA conferences. He has been a major supporter of the electronic capture photography both in his own club and the PSA. Bill served as the Chairman of the Electronic Imaging division. In 2012 at the San Francisco PSA International Conference he was awarded the Stanley B. Ashbrook, Jr. Memorial Award and the PSA Service Award for his contributions to digital photography and PSA.
Also: Questions and Answers following the presentation and during the social period before the SIG-Linux meeting. Snacks available during the social period.
When: Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 1:45 P.M.
Where: Altair Engineering, Inc., 1820 E. Big Beaver Rd., Troy, MI 48083
Map to meetings at Altair Engineering
SIG-Linux Chairman Brian Brodsky will demonstrate some of the features of digiKam. digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux, Windows, and Mac-OSX.
The people who inspired digiKam’s design are the photographers like you who want to view, manage, edit, enhance, organize, tag, and share photographs under Linux systems.
All are welcome.
When: Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 4:00 P.M.
Where: Altair Engineering, Inc., 1820 E. Big Beaver Rd., Troy, MI 48083
Map to meetings at Altair Engineering
Free Wi-Fi available. Our thanks to Altair Engineering, Inc. for providing our meeting space!
We are learning Python using the book “Learning Python” by Mark Lutz. It is an O’Reilly book http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028154.do, but can also be purchased at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Python-5th-Mark-Lutz/dp/1449355730/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416007152&sr=1-1&pebp=11416007164251.
We are to read Chapter 22, “Modules: The Big Picture” for the next meeting. If you have any questions contact Richard Jackson (see below). All are welcome to come.
Where: Richard Jackson’s home. Call Richard Jackson at 248-546-3694 for directions.
When: Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 2:00 P.M.
Thank you to Sharan Kalwani for the outstanding presentations today on Data Centers and Linux technologies (containers, Docker, etc.)! He will provide his presentations.
The notes from today’s news portion are below. Have a super week, and please keep the discussion going!
We are learning Python using the book “Learning Python” by Mark Lutz. It is an O’Reilly book http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028154.do, but can also be purchased at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Python-5th-Mark-Lutz/dp/1449355730/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416007152&sr=1-1&pebp=11416007164251.
We are to read Chapter 21, “The Benchmarking Interlude” for the next meeting. If you have any questions contact Richard Jackson (see below). All are welcome to come.
Where: Richard Jackson’s home. Call Richard Jackson at 248-546-3694 for directions.
When: Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 2:00 P.M.
Mike Bader, president of SEMCO, will start the meeting and make general announcements.
When: Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 1:30 P.M.
Where: Altair Engineering, Inc., 1820 E. Big Beaver Rd., Troy, MI 48083
Map to meetings at Altair Engineering
Sharan Kalwani, a super computing expert, and SEMCO member will discuss: What is a data center? How is data center different from any other commercial building? What is involved in a data center design? What are the future trends in data center design? How does this relate to all this stuff I keep hearing about the Cloud?
For short but very enlightening answers to all of these questions, attend this talk to find out more!
Data Centers have been around as long as we have had computing, During the different decades in the evolution of the computer, various soothsayers have predicted the death of the center, citing client-server computing, personal computing, etc. as indicators. As we all know forecasting in this industry is hazardous at best. If anyone tells you that mobile and tablet computing will sunset data centers – well they are wrong, as these technologies actually depend on enormous data (aka cloud) centers. Come and attend the talk, ask questions, engage in discussions, join up as a member during the session on this exciting topic at SEMCO’s monthly meeting.
Sharan Kalwani is currently the Director at the High Performance Computing Center, which is part of the Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research, Michigan State University.
Also: Questions and Answers following the presentation and during the social period before the SIG-Linux meeting. Snacks available during the social period.
When: Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 1:45 P.M.
Where: Altair Engineering, Inc., 1820 E. Big Beaver Rd., Troy, MI 48083
Map to meetings at Altair Engineering
Sharan Kalwani will discuss the many new innovations being driven by both Open Source and Linux-based technologies. This will be brief talk to take a look at many such ideas and innovations and what they mean to the Linux community. It is always hard to predict the future and this is going to be no different, but there are certain parallels that we can see and even touch, so it makes sense to figure out what the possibilities are.
Due to a work emergency, SIG-Linux chairman Brian Brodsky will not be able to do the previously scheduled digiKam presentation this month. Our thanks go to Sharan Kalwani for volunteering to do a presentation on short notice.
All are welcome.
When: Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 4:00 P.M.
Where: Altair Engineering, Inc., 1820 E. Big Beaver Rd., Troy, MI 48083
Map to meetings at Altair Engineering
Free Wi-Fi available. Our thanks to Altair Engineering, Inc. for providing our meeting space!