BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20081102T020000 RDATE:20081102T020000 RDATE:20091101T020000 RDATE:20101107T020000 RDATE:20111106T020000 RDATE:20121104T020000 RDATE:20131103T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20090308T020000 RDATE:20090308T020000 RDATE:20100314T020000 RDATE:20110313T020000 RDATE:20120311T020000 RDATE:20130310T020000 RDATE:20140309T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090203T093512Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090205T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090205T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090203T093512Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100302T172056Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250456625 DESCRIPTION: \;\n PRESENTATI ON \;\n \;\n Intro to Digital Forensics&# 13\;\n (aka Groveling Through File Systems) \;\n& #13\;\n \;\n by \;\n \;\n Hal Pomeranz \;\n Deer Run Associates \;\n \;\n While it may not be as sex y as they make it look on TV\, there are a \;\n number of powerful O pen Source tools available for analyzing file \;\n systems and recov ering data-- even data that may have been deleted by \;\n the attack er. This talk will start with an overview of the standard \;\n Unix file system architecture and discuss tools for imaging file \;\n sys tems\, suggest a few useful tools and idioms for finding clues in \;\ n your images\, and cover how to discover "\;interesting"\; dat a from deleted \;\n files and re-assemble that data into an actual f ile image. \;\n \;\n Hal Pomeranz is the founder and technical le ad of Deer Run Associates\, \;\n and has been active in the system a nd network management/security \;\n field for over twenty years. As a senior member of the Faculty for the \;\n SANS Institute\, Hal dev eloped the SANS "\;Step-by-Step"\; course model and \;\n cur rently serves as the track coordinator and primary instructor for \;\ n the SANS/GIAC Linux/Unix Security Certification track (GCUX). In 2001 \;\n he was given the SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award for his te aching \;\n and leadership in the field of System Administration. 3\;\n \;\n Note: \;\n (1) The slides for the presentation are available at: \;\n http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/IntroToDigit alForensics.pdf \;\n \;\n (2) Randal Schwartz will do a live c ast of this presentation at: \;\n http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/ 25652 \;\n You can follow along if you have a web browser\, & #13\;\n and if you register\, you can also participate in the ch at\, \;\n and Randal might relay your questions to the speak er. \;\n The recording of the session will be available after ward \;\n at the same address. \;\n \;\n\n\nTags: linu x\, plug\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250456625 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Intro to Digital Forensics LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090304T100736Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090305T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090305T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090304T100736Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100302T172057Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250456802 DESCRIPTION: \;\n PRESENTATI ON \;\n \;\n Fun with \;\n "\;blktrace"\; and "\;seekwatcher" \; \;\n \;\n by \;\n \; \n M. Edward (Ed) Borasky \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n blktrace is a command tha t generates traces of the i/o \;\n traffic on block devices such as hard drives. \;\n \;\n seekwatcher generates graphs from b lktrace runs to help \;\n visualize IO patterns and performance. It can plot multiple \;\n blktrace runs together\, making it ea sy to compare the differences \;\n between different benchmark r uns. \;\n \;\n Ed will show us how to install and use these co ol tools. \;\n \;\n \;\n Note: \;\n(1) Randal Schwartz will do a live cast of this presentation at: \;\nhttp://www.talkshoe.com/t c/25652 \;\nYou can follow along if you have a web browser\, \;\na nd if you register\, you can also participate in the chat\, \;\nand R andal might relay your questions to the speaker. \;\nThe recording of the session will be available afterward \;\nat the same address. \;\n \;\n\n\nTags: linux\, plug\n\nImported from: http://calagator.or g/events/1250456802 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Fun with blktrace and seekwatcher LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090331T202637Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090402T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090402T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090331T202637Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100302T172059Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250456913 DESCRIPTION: \;\n PRESENTATI ON \;\n \;\n To Be Announced \;\n \;\n by \;\n \;\n Barton C Massey \;\n \;\n \;\n I hav en't gotten the topic yet from Bart\; but Bart Massey \;\n who is with the Computer Science Department at PSU will \;\n be giving the presentation. \;\n \;\n Note: \;\nRandal Schwartz will do a live cast of this presentation at: \;\nhttp://www.talkshoe.com/tc/2 5652 \;\nYou can follow along if you have a web browser\, \;\nand if you register\, you can also participate in the chat\, \;\nand Rand al might relay your questions to the speaker. \;\nThe recording of th e session will be available afterward \;\nat the same address.\n\nTag s: linux\, plug\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250456913 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Presentation by Bart Massey LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090505T043546Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090507T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090507T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090505T043546Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100302T172100Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250457172 DESCRIPTION: \;\n PRESENTATI ON \;\n \;\n Displaying HD Video Content with a PC\, \;\n Presented from a Linux User's Perspective \;\n \;\n by \;\n \;\n Terry Griffin \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n A discussion of issues associ ated with displaying \;\n High Definition (HD) video content using a PC\, \;\n focusing on the data path from the PC to th e display. \;\n Particular attention will be given to issues unique \;\n to Linux/FOSS but much of the presentation will b e \;\n applicable to any HD video setup. \;\n \;\nNote: \;\nRandal Schwartz will do a live cast of this presentation at: \;\nhttp://www.talkshoe.com/tc/25652 \;\nYou can follow along if you have a web browser\, \;\nand if you register\, you can also participa te in the chat\, \;\nand Randal might relay your questions to the spe aker. \;\nThe recording of the session will be available afterward 3\;\nat the same address. \;\n\n\nTags: linux\, plug\n\nImported from : http://calagator.org/events/1250457172 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Displaying HD Video Content with a PC LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090602T204317Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090604T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090604T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090602T204317Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100302T172102Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250457266 DESCRIPTION:PRESENTATION \;\n \;\nWhat is Linux Fund? \;\nby \;\nRandal L. Schwartz and David Mandel \;\n \;\nA discussion of t he administrative side of running an Open Source organization - legal st anding\, non-profit status\, taxes and fees\, accepting donations\, inte rnational issues\, etc. \;\n \;\nWe will also discuss ways Open S ource "\;Foundations"\;like Linux Fund\, Apache Software Foundat ion\, The Software Conservancy\, The Free Software Foundation\, The Open Source Geospatial Foundation\, and others are helping particular projec ts minimize the overhead of running their own non-profit. \;\n \;\ nA lot of the discussion will center on Linux Fund since both presenters are from Linux Fund and ways to become involved with Linux Fund.\n\nTag s: linux\, plug\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250457266 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: What is Linux Fund? LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090630T054333Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090702T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090702T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090630T054333Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100302T172103Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250457364 DESCRIPTION: \;\n PRESENTATION \;\n&# 13\;\n Rapid Discussions \;\n \;\n on \;\n \;\n Any Topic \;\n \;\n by \;\n \;\n Anyone &\; Everyone \; \n \;\n Instead of having a formal presentation\, we will get toge ther and \;\n discuss anything anyone wants to discuss in brief se ssions of no \;\n more than a few minutes each. If we have enough people involved \;\n we can break into smaller groups to handle e ach topic. \;\n\n\nTags: linux\, plug\n\nImported from: http://calaga tor.org/events/1250457364 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Rapid Discussions LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090804T093726Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090806T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090806T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090804T093726Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100302T172104Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250457512 DESCRIPTION: \;\n PRESENTATION \; \n \;\n Virtualize vs Containerize: Fight! \;\n \;\n by \;\n \;\n Irving Popovetsky \;\n \;\n \;\n and \;\n&# 13\;\n Andy de la Lucha \;\n \;\n Everyone has a different reason to love virtualization: security\,&# 13\;\n configuration isolation... the list goes on. But containeriza tion \;\n offers many of the same goodies as virtualization\, al ongside an \;\n efficiency and performance advantage. Just what you need\, more \;\n options. There's no wrong answer. Andy de l a Lucha and Irving \;\n Popovetsky help you ask the right questi ons about what's right \;\n for your environment. \;\n\n\nTag s: linux\, plug\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250457512 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Virtualize vs Containerize LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090901T040553Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090903T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090903T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090901T040553Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100302T172107Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250457633 DESCRIPTION: \;\n PRESENTATION \; \n \;\n Crash Reporting: Mozilla's Open Source Solution \ ;\n \;\n by \;\n \;\n K Lars Lohn \;\n \;\n Nothing exercises the limits of software like turning it \;\n over to the end users. While in-house testing is invaluable\, \;\n the end users can often find the neglected edge cases or subtle  3\;\n race conditions in a more reliable manner. However\, once the \;\n software is in the end user’s hands\, postmortem crash info rmation \;\n is usually lost. \;\n \;\n By taking the Google Breakpad project and enhancing it with \;\n Mozilla’s own Socorro project\, Mozilla has a solution to this problem. \;\n When Firefox goes down\, in a last ditch effort\, it lobs a \;\n packet of crash information over the wall to Mozilla's Socorro \;\ n servers. Socorro Servers\, written in Python\, can handle million s \;\n of these crashes per day. Using Google Breakpad libraries to \;\n reconstitute useful stack traces\, Socorro Server saves its \;\n work in a PostgreSQL database. There statistics are g athered \;\n and displayed under the Socorro UI\, a PHP web appl ication. \;\n With this suite of tools\, the Mozilla developers can track \;\n trends and even drill down to look at specific i nstances of \;\n Firefox crashes. \;\n \;\n WARNING: du ring this talk\, Firefox will be intentionally \;\n crashed live on stage. Those of delicate constitution may wish \;\n to reti re to the lobby prior to the spectacle. \;\n \;\n about Lars&# 13\;\n \;\n Trapped at the triple point between a geek\, a hippie and \;\n a biker\, Lars is a self proclaimed Cowboy Programmer at the \;\n Mozilla Corporation. Unintentionally specializing i n programming \;\n as performance art\, Lars frequently jumps in to projects on the \;\n Thursday prior to a Monday deadline. Lar s is proud of being the \;\n only member of the Web Development team that does absolutely \;\n no Web development. \;\n \; \n Lars prefers Python\, PostgreSQL and Harleys\, but is versed in C ++\, \;\n MySQL and Subarus. \;\n\n\nTags: linux\, plug\n\nImp orted from: http://calagator.org/events/1250457633 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Crash Reporting: Mozilla's Open Sour ce Solution LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090903T193439Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090910T200000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090910T180000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090903T193439Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100302T172109Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250457645 DESCRIPTION:Networking from 6-7\, Seminar from 7-8:00 PM \;\nEvent is open to anyone - this is a free talk. Come in early for free pizza provi ded by the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference! \;\n \;\ nAbstract: \;\nEstimates are required multiple times in a project. Pr oject members need to make estimates for a variety of reasons\, these in clude: \;\n• The amount of time for a task\; \;\n• The cost f or resources\; \;\n• The cost of software\, hardware and other mate rials\; \;\n• The time required to finish a task. \;\nHowever\, there are many problems with estimates. This presentation focuses on th e sociological and psychological aspects of doing estimates. \;\nIt teaches attendees the environmental issues that affect estimates and how to deal with their impact. Through class interaction\, it shows both th e psychological and sociological factors that affect how estimates are g iven and provides leaders with tools to help avoid the common pitfalls. By avoiding these situations\, estimates become more representative of t he project and more variation more predictable. Controlling both of thes e\, help the Project Manager avert trouble. \;\nThis a very interact ive and fun presentation. It has a short exercise and throughout the pre sentation\, attendees are asked to make estimates on doing the exercise again under a number of situations to help better learn from their own b ehavior. \;\n \;\nSpeaker Bio: \;\nTodd Williams has thirty yea rs experience as a Project Manager\, Architect\, entrepreneur and busine ssperson. He has spent twenty of those years recovering red projects. Fr om this experience\, he has developed a process to make the recoveries m ore efficient. His experience also provides a plethora of invaluable kno wledge on avoiding project failure. \;\nHe has worked in manufacturin g and service industries for products used internally and externally to the companies developing them. The projects include large-scale system i ntegration of manufacturing systems\, equipment integration\, web-based collaboration tools\, thick clients with automated update via the intern et and large-scale business systems integration. The projects have been in Taiwan\, Singapore\, Canada\, the United States and Israel. The team s have been dispersed in as many as five countries\, three continents an d countless time zones. Some of these projects were captive in-house tim e and materials projects while others were outsourced fixed-priced proje cts. \;\n \;\nMr. Williams is the President of eCameron\, Inc.\, l ocated in the Portland\, Oregon metropolitan area\, and specializes in r ecovering red projects. He is a published author and regularly publishe s a Project Management Technique eZine. \;\n \;\nDirections: Room 86-01 is located between the Engineering Building and the Fourth Avenue Building on the PSU campus. \;\nEnter through the Engineering Buildi ng at 1930 SW Fourth Avenue\, go down the stairs and through the hall di rectly ahead. Street parking is available. \;\n \;\nRose City SPI N: \;\nThe Rose City Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) is a monthly forum for networking\, mutual support\, and promotion of effect ive software practices. We exchange practical experiences\, ideas\, know ledge\, wisdom\, and war stories about the technical\, business\, and hu man facets of software process improvement. The Rose City SPIN serves t he software development community of the Portland/Vancouver metro area. Whether you work for a large company or a small one\, corporate or self -employed\, industrial or academic setting\, you are welcome at the Rose City SPIN. \;\n \;\nQuestions? Contact Rhea Stadick at rhea.d.s tadick@intel.com\n\nTags: estimation\, software quality\, software proce ss improvement\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250457645 SUMMARY:Rose City SPIN seminar: Estimation - Understanding Project Enviro nmental Effects LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090812T182528Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090928 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090925 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090812T182528Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100302T172106Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250457547 DESCRIPTION:This event runs from Friday\, September 25\, 2009 at 3:30pm t hrough Sunday\, September 27\, 2009 at 6pm.\n\nDescription:\nHacPDX is a n opportunity to join Portland Haskell hackers in building and improving Hackage libraries and tools. If you've never been\, Hackathons are typi cally not only a good opportunity for experienced devs to work together but also a great way for newcomers to get involved in the community. \;\n \;\nVisit this website for complete details: http://www.haskell. org/haskellwiki/HacPDX\n\nTags: haskell\, hackathon\, code\, pdxfunc\, r uby\, python\, perl\, beer\, pdxhackathon\n\nImported from: http://calag ator.org/events/1250457547 URL:http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/HacPDX SUMMARY:HacPDX: Portland Haskell Hackathon LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090929T191129Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091001T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091001T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090929T191129Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100302T172109Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250457756 DESCRIPTION:Michael Dexter from Linux Fund/BSD Fund will give his EuroBSD Con 2008 presentation: \;\n \;\nZen and the Art of Multiplicity Ma intenance: An applied survey of BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies fro m chroot to mult. \;\n \;\nTopics of this survey include chroot\, jails\, Xen\, sysjail\, SIMH\, NetBSD/usermode\, kauth Jail\, QEMU/kQEMU \, GXemul\, vkernel\n\nTags: linux\, plug\, bsd\, open source\n\nImporte d from: http://calagator.org/events/1250457756 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: BSD Virtualization LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091102T202144Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091105T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091105T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091102T202144Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100302T172110Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250457957 DESCRIPTION: Given that the database\, as the canonical repository o f data\, \;\n is the most important part of many applications\, why is it \;\n that we don't write database unit tests? This tal k promotes \;\n the practice of implementing tests to directly t est the \;\n schema\, storage\, and functionality of databases.& #13\;\n \;\n David E. Wheeler\, Founder of Kineticode and Co -Founder of \;\n PostgreSQL Experts hacks Perl\, PostgreSQL\, Ja vaScript\, and Ruby. \;\n I believe David is also the lead devel oper and maintainer \;\n Bricolage which is a well known CMS. &# 13\;\n David lives in Portland. \;\n\n\nTags: bsd\, linux\, open source\, plug\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250457957 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Unit Test Your Database! LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100104T084940Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100107T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100107T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100104T084940Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100302T172111Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250458119 DESCRIPTION: \;\n PRESENTATION \; \n \;\n Drupal \;\n What is it Good For? \;\n \;\n by \;\n \;\n Lev Tsypin \;\n \;\n Drupal is growing leaps and bounds these days\, powering everything \;\n from ma and pa brochure sites t o Obama’s recovery.gov. Does this \;\n mean it’s a great fit for any website? Not exactly. \;\n \;\n Drupal has been defined a s many things\, including a content \;\n management system\, a w eb application framework\, and community \;\n plumbing. In some ways\, this is both a blessing and a curse\; \;\n there’s so muc h you can do\, in so many different ways\, that new \;\n users a re crushed under the weight of the options and lack of \;\n clar ity. In addition\, all of that flexibility does come with a cost\, \ ;\n in terms of performance and conciseness. \;\n \;\n Thi s presentation will cover some Drupal basics including history\, \;\ n core concepts\, and system structure. From there\, we will dig int o \;\n Drupal’s strengths and weaknesses\, finishing off by disc ussing the \;\n types of projects Drupal is best suited for\, in cluding specific \;\n examples for each case. \;\n \;\n My hope is that developers new to the platform will gain a better \;\n understanding of when to approach a new project with Drupal\, m ore \;\n experienced developers will gain a bit of insight on wh en not to \;\n use it\, and non-techies will have some help in c hoosing a platform \;\n for their projects along with an underst anding why developers they \;\n work with select a given platfor m. Please note that this talk will \;\n not delve deeply into th e technical details of Drupal. \;\n\n\nTags: bsd\, linux\, open sourc e\, plug\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250458119 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Drupal! What is it good for? LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100201T104030Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100204T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100204T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100201T104030Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100302T172111Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250458267 DESCRIPTION:WARNING!!! \;\nJeri is sick and can't do the talk tonigh t. \;\nInformal DorkBotPDX demo night instead! \;\n \;\nIn plac e of Jeri\, I have some offers to do demos of projects from DorkBotPDX l and\, including Simran Gleason about his Kepler's Orrery (a generative m usic system that composes music from gravity equations)\, I have a littl e stepper motor demo\, someone suggested they could demo Luz (a ruby / o pengl 4-d drawing software)\, and there may be others. \;\n \;\n&# 13\;\n \;\n CANCELLED PRESENTATION was ... \;\n \;\n \;\n A Talk \;\n by \;\n \;\n Jeri Ellsworth \;\n (Circuit Girl) \;\n \;\n J eri Ellsworth is a native Oregonian\, born in Yamhill and raised \;\n in Dallas\, Oregon. Early on she became fascinated with electronic s \;\n and 8-bit computers setting the stage for her unique appr oach to \;\n learning. Not being challenged in school\, she ski pped higher \;\n education to pursue a career in car-racing and chassis fabrication. \;\n After that\, she opened a chain of comp uter stores in Oregon and \;\n Washington. She sold those to pe rsue a career in chip design\, \;\n which lead her to design the CommodoreOne - based upon the \;\n Commodore 64 - using reconfig urable logic and the C64 DTV 30- \;\n games-in-one joystick\, se lling\, a quarter million units. \;\n She currently works as an O regon based consultant. \;\n \;\n I'm not sure what Jeri is going to speak about yet\, but judging from \;\n the talk she gave at Stanford\, it should be very good indeed. \;\n See a vide o of her Stanford talk at: \;\n http://video.google.com/videopla y?docid=-1053309060448851979# \;\n \;\n Also\, see her webs s ites at: \;\n http://www.jeriellsworth.com/ \;\n and \; \n http://www.fatmanandcircuitgirl.com/ \;\n\n\nTags: bsd\, l inux\, open source\, plug\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/ 1250458267 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: A Talk by Jeri Ellsworth (SICK: RESCH EDULING!) LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:5 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100302T080041Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100304T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100304T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100302T080041Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100302T080041Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250458374 DESCRIPTION:A Talk by \;\n \;\nJeri Ellsworth \;\n(Circuit Girl) \;\n \;\nJeri Ellsworth is a native Oregonian\, born in Yamhill a nd raised in Dallas\, Oregon. Early on she became fascinated with electr onics and 8-bit computers setting the stage for her unique approach to l earning. Not being challenged in school\, she skipped higher education t o pursue a career in car-racing and chassis fabrication. After that\, sh e opened a chain of computer stores in Oregon and Washington. She sold t hose to persue a career in chip design\, which lead her to design the Co mmodoreOne - based upon the Commodore 64 - using reconfigurable logic an d the C64 DTV 30-games-in-one joystick\, selling\, a quarter million uni ts. She currently works as an Oregon based consultant. \;\n \;\nI 'm not sure what Jeri is going to speak about yet\, but judging from the talk she gave at Stanford\, it should be very good indeed. \;\n \ ;\nSee a video of her Stanford talk at: http://video.google.com/videopla y?docid=-1053309060448851979# \;\n \;\nAlso\, see her webs sites a t: \;\nhttp://www.jeriellsworth.com/ \;\nand \;\nhttp://www.fat manandcircuitgirl.com/ \n\nTags: bsd\, linux\, open source\, plug\n\nImp orted from: http://calagator.org/events/1250458374 URL:http://www.pdxlinux.org/ SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: A Talk by Jeri Ellsworth LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100301T023846Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100317T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100317T183000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100301T023846Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100315T205459Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250458366 DESCRIPTION:Jon Bach is coming to our local agile users group to tell us about his specialty\, exploratory testing. Pizza at 6:30\, meeting at 7 . \;\n \;\nTalk: "\;Exploratory Testing: Now In Session"\; \;\n \;\nThe agile nature of exploration and the ability of test ers to rapidly apply their skills and experience make exploratory testin g a widely used test approach—especially when time is short. But explora tory testing is often dismissed by project managers who assume that it i s not reproducible\, measurable\, or accountable. If you share these con cerns\, a solution may lie in a technique called Session-Based Test Mana gement (SBTM)\, developed by Jon and his brother James specifically to a ddress these problems. In SBTM\, testers are assigned areas of a product to explore\, and testing is time boxed in "\;sessions"\; which have mission statements called “charters” to create a meaningful and cou ntable unit of work. Jon discusses—and you can practice—the skills of ex ploration and demonstrates a freely available\, open source tool to help manage your exploratoration. \;\n \;\nSpeaker Bio: Jon Bach has b een in testing for 14 years\, 12 of which has been as a manager. His ex perience includes managing teams at Microsoft\, HP and LexisNexis\, and is currently a managing consultant for Quardev\, Inc. -- a Seattle test lab. He speaks frequently about test management and exploratory testing \, and is the co-inventor (with his brother James) of Session-Based Test Management. He’s also written a few articles for testing magazines as well as a listed co-author of a Microsoft Patterns and Practices book on acceptance testing (available for free online). Find him on Facebook\, Twitter\, or his presentations and articles on http://www.quardev.com\, where he also has a blog.\n\nTags: agile\, testing\, exploratory testin g\, agilepdx\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250458366 URL:http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xpportland/ SUMMARY:AgilePDX: Jon Bach talks about exploratory testing LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100330T171727Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100401T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100401T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100330T171727Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100330T171727Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250458496 DESCRIPTION: \;\n \;\n PRESENTA TION \;\n \;\n Rapid Discussions 3\;\n \;\n on \;\n \;\ n Any Topic \;\n \;\n by \;\n \;\n Anyone &\; Everyone \;\n \;\n Instead of having a formal presentation\, we will get together and \;\n discuss anyt hing anyone wants to discuss in brief sessions of no \;\n more t han a few minutes each. If we have enough people involved \;\n we can break into smaller groups to handle each topic. \;\n \;\n Two topics that I will be prepared to discuss for a few minutes \;\n will be: \;\n - Subsistence Computing \;\n How to do good computing on a low budget. \;\n - Could we lose the internet to Government and Corporate \;\n interests? \;\n \;\n AND YES - We are looking for speak ers for upcoming months. \;\n Volunteers and Recommenda tions are welcome. \;\n \;\n\n\nTags: linux\, plug\n\nImported fr om: http://calagator.org/events/1250458496 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Rapid Discussions on Any Topic LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100503T195021Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100506T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100506T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100503T195021Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100503T195021Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250458640 DESCRIPTION: \;\n \;\n PRESENTATION \;\n \;\n H ow Linux Containers fit your cloud \;\n \;\n by \;\n \;\n Alec Istomin \;\n www.Parallels.com \;\n 3\;\n Linux\, Cloud\, Virtualization and hundreds other buzz words a re out \;\n there to blow your mind. The session will share real life examples \;\n that actually make sense and deliver meaningfu l easy to use services to \;\n end users with minimum efforts fro m cloud administrators. \;\n \;\n A deeper introduction to Con tainers technology will be presented and \;\n will be helpful to anyone\, especially for people familiar with any \;\n other virtu alization solution for Linux. \;\n \;\n Overview of Parallels Commercial management tools for Containers and \;\n clouds with o pen command line and XML APIs will show how to put an \;\n infras tructure cloud solution to life. \;\n \;\n About the speaker:& #13\;\n Alec Istomin is an Enterprise Solution Architect at Parallel s\, \;\n Renton\,WA and originally joined the company (called SW soft at \;\n the time) as a developer in early 2000. He has been involved \;\n with Linux and Virtualization all these years and led numerous \;\n cloud deployments. He has an M.S. in physics and applied \;\n mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics an d Technology \;\n (MIPT)\, Moscow. \;\n \n\nTags: linux\, plu g\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250458640 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: How Linux Containers fit your cloud LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100601T171219Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100603T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100603T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100601T171219Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100602T174627Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250458733 DESCRIPTION: \;\n \;\n PRESENTA TION \;\n \;\n Puppet - An Introduction& #13\;\n \;\n by \;\n \;\ n Teyo Tyree \;\n www.puppetlabs.com \;\n \;\n Puppet is a powerful c onfiguration management tool that makes life \;\n easier for peo ple managing systems and applications. This tutorial \;\n gives you an in-depth and hands-on introduction to Puppet that is \;\n ideal for beginners to Puppet and configuration management. \;\n \;\n Teyo is Co-Founder of Puppet Labs and the former Director of IT \;\n for 20/20 Research and professional systems administrator. Over the \;\n past 12 years Teyo has been using and promoting t he use of open \;\n source tools to enable scaling and efficienc y in IT operations. \;\n Teyo joined Puppet Labs in July of 2008 and has been traveling \;\n the world providing Puppet Labs’ cu stomers with training and consulting. \;\n\n\nTags: linux\, plug\n\nI mported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250458733 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Puppet - An Introduction LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100628T154253Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100701T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100701T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100628T154253Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100628T154253Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250458812 DESCRIPTION: \;\n \;\n PRESENTA TION \;\n \;\n Open Source Car Entertainmen t \;\n \;\n by \;\n \ ;\n Kevron Rees \;\n tripzero@nextabyte.com \;\n \;\n This presentation will discuss the innovation and excitement \;\n that open source software can bring to the car to make travelling \;\n more enjo yable and also save you money. The session will go into \;\n dep th on what you need to do to turn your car into an open \;\n sou rce super-car including what hardware is available and the \;\n o pen source software needed to make it all work. \;\n\n\nTags: linux\, plug\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250458812 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Open Source Car Entertainment LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100802T190646Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100805T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100805T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100802T190646Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100805T005437Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250458951 DESCRIPTION:PRESENTATION \;\n \;\nServer Sky - Data Centers in Orbi t \;\n Power for computation on a Moore's Law schedule& #13\;\n \;\n Keith Lofstrom\, http://server-sky.co m \;\n \;\n The EPA estimates US data centers (not including d esktops) \;\n consumed 1.5% of total US electrical consumption in 2006. \;\n They predict a doubling to 3% of base load by 2011. Our \;\n work as programmers and technologists continues this \;\n runaway exponential growth\, and we will be stopped by \;\n environmental and resource limits soon. \;\n \;\n Server s ky is a proposal to use newly emerging solid state \;\n technolog ies to build large arrays of 3 gram paper-thin \;\n solar-powered computation satellites in 6400km Earth orbits. \;\n \;\n A si ngle server-sat replaces 15 watts of ground-based \;\n electrical generation\, cooling\, and power conversion\, as \;\n well as th e computation and communication hardware itself. \;\n Orbital ser ver farms may start out as expensive as current \;\n approaches\, but design improvement and cheaper launch will \;\n decrease cos ts exponentially over time\, much as transistor \;\n cost has plu mmeted over the last four decades. \;\n \;\n This is open tech nology\, responsive to public input\, and \;\n the project needs volunteer software and engineering help \;\n to stay that way. E ventually\, Server Sky will create \;\n thousands of open technol ogy jobs in the Portland area\, \;\n and permit unbounded computa tion growth in space\, while \;\n reducing energy demand and envi ronmental damage on Earth. \;\n \;\n Earth can return to what it is good at green and growing \;\n things while we fill space w ith gray and computing things. \;\n\n\nTags: linux\, plug\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250458951 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Server Sky - Data Centers in Orbit LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100810T024345Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100811T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100811T180000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100810T024345Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110524T203714Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250458991 DESCRIPTION:The PSU Haskell Interest Group is intended to provide a meeti ng place for PSU students and others who are users and developers of the Haskell programming language. Nothing too structured\; brief talks and a chance to meet and discuss.\n\nTags: psu\, haskell\, functional progra mming\, programming languages\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/eve nts/1250458991 URL:http://wiki.cs.pdx.edu/phig SUMMARY:Portland State University Haskell Interest Group [PHIG] LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100830T190714Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100902T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100902T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100830T190714Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100830T190714Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250459179 DESCRIPTION:PRESENTATION \;\n \;\n A n Overview of \;\n Berkley DB \;\ n \;\n by \;\n \;\n David Segleau \;\nDirector Product Managemen t - Berkeley DB \;\n \;\n Berkeley DB originated at the Univ ersity of California\, \;\n Berkeley as part of the transition ( 1986 to 1994) from 4.3BSD \;\n to 4.4BSD and of the effort to re move AT&\;T-encumbered code. \;\n It has evolved a great deal since then and is now part \;\n of Oracle where it is distributed with source code under \;\n a dual use license. \;\n \;\n Berkeley DB (BDB) is a computer software library that provides \;\n a high-performance embedded database\, with bindings in C\, C++ \, \;\n PHP\, Java\, Perl\, Python\, Ruby\, Tcl\, Smalltalk\, an d other languages. \;\n BDB stores arbitrary key/data pairs as b yte arrays\, and supports \;\n multiple data items for a single key. BDB can support thousands \;\n of simultaneous threads of c ontrol or concurrent processes \;\n manipulating databases as la rge as 256 terabytes\, on a wide \;\n variety of operating syste ms including most Unix-like and \;\n Windows systems\, and real- time operating systems.\n\nTags: linux\, plug\n\nImported from: http://c alagator.org/events/1250459179 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Berkley DB LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101005T171649Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101007T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101007T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101005T171649Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101005T171649Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250459312 DESCRIPTION:October Portland Linux/Unix Group Meeting \;\n \;\nAn O verview of Zentyal by Dale Zeutenhorst \;\n \;\nZentyal (formerly eBox Platform) is an open source unified network server for small to mid size companies based on Ubuntu Linux. Zentyal can act as a Gateway\, Ne twork Infrastructure Manager\, Unified Threat Manager\, Office Server\, Unified Communications Server or a combination of these. \;\n \;\n Dale Zeutenhorst is a long time consultant and small business owner. He is currently owner and manager of Adept I.T. Service of Camas\, Washing ton. Before that he was Technical Manager at Microsharp where is was a key player in building the Netule family of server-appliances. \;\n&# 13\;\nSchedule: \;\n \;\nNews \;\nPresentation \;\nMeet for beer at the Lucky Lab Beer Hall - 1945 NW Quimby \;\n \;\nVenue:&# 13\;\n \;\nPortland State University \;\nFariborz Maseeh College o f Engineering &\; Computer Science Building \;\nRoom FAB 86-01 (Th is is in the basement.) \;\nThe building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street. \;\nSee location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/c ampus_map.jpg \;\n \;\n\n\nTags: linux\, bsd\, open source\, softw are freedom\, beer\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250459 312 URL:http://www.zentyal.com/ SUMMARY:PLUG: Zentyal Linux Small Business Server LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101102T230353Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101104T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101104T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101102T230353Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101104T015904Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250459421 DESCRIPTION:A Presentation by Allan Foster of ForgeRock.com \;\n \; \nI will give a presentation on ForgeRock\, how and why we were founded\ , and a little of the events and decisions that led up to the founding.& #13\;\n \;\nI will also discuss some of the various Open Source Busin ess Models\, and why we chose ours. \;\n \;\nI will cover some of the unique situations in which we find ourselves\, and how we chose to address them. \;\n \;\nI will also discuss how Open Source is beco ming more relevant in Enterprise\, and how this shift seems to be reachi ng a tipping point. \;\n \;\nAllan works at ForgeRock with former Sun Microsystems Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps. Visit www.webmi nk.com for more about Simon.\n\nTags: plug\, linux\, open source\, bsd\, software freedom\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/12504594 21 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Presentation by Allan Foster of Forge Rock LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101129T234559Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101202T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101202T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101129T234559Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101129T234559Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250459509 DESCRIPTION: Presentation \;\n Open Source Desktop Publishing \;\n with \;\n Scribu s \;\n \;\n by \;\n \;\ n John Jason Jordan \;\n \;\n Scr ibus is just a few years old\, but has already achieved \;\n mos t of the features of the expensive commercial desktop \;\n publi shing apps\, and a few they don't have. If you need to \;\n do f liers\, brochures\, or whole books\, Scribus is now the \;\n pre ferred tool. \;\n \;\n The presentation will start with a brie f introduction to \;\n some of the terms of desktop publishing\, especially how to \;\n get your computer to produce something t hat a print shop can \;\n put on a press. This will include matt ers such as typography\, \;\n color management\, banding and lin e screens\, transparency\, \;\n imposition\, and several other i ssues. \;\n \;\n Then we will spend a few minutes on an overvi ew of Scribus\, \;\n how it is different from word processors\, TeX\, and advantages \;\n and disadvantages. This will include the basic features of \;\n Scribus\, including typographical con trols\, master pages\, render \;\n frames\, PDF forms\, PDF expo rt options\, scripting\, collect for \;\n output\, and lots more . It will also cover how Scribus is the \;\n end tool in a proce ss that starts with other programs. \;\n \;\n Finally we will reproduce the PLUG flier that was created \;\n in Scribus. This will be presented on the screen showing \;\n the steps and feat ures of Scribus necessary to produce it. \;\n Each member of the audience will have a paper copy of the \;\n flier to assist in following the process. \;\n\n\nTags: linux\, plug\, open source\, bsd \, software freedom\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/125045 9509 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Open Source Desktop Publishing with Sc ribus LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101218T053623Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101228T200000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101228T180000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101218T053623Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101218T053623Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250459556 DESCRIPTION:Initial meeting of the PDX11 Working Group on Knowledge Netwo rks - part of the City's Software Initiative to make Portland the most a wesome place in the world to start and run your software business. \; \n \;\nSubscribe to the discussion list: http://lists.pdx11.org/mailm an/listinfo/pdx11-knowledge \;\n\n\nImported from: http://calagator.o rg/events/1250459556 URL:http://www.pdx11.org/ SUMMARY:PDX11 Knowledge Network Group LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110104T054620Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110106T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110106T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110104T054620Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110104T054620Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250459580 DESCRIPTION: Presentation \;\n Mini Presentations \;\n by \;\n Daniel Hedlund&# 13\;\n and \;\n hopefully others \;\n \;\n \;\n Daniel Hedlund will give a little ad hoc mini-demo on \;\n setting up a VPS on Linode.com. \;\n \;\n David Mandel will discuss a couple ways of using virtualbox \;\n in a teaching environment. \;\n \ ;\n We invite others to join in with their own short little \;\n mini-presentations on simple little "\;hacks"\; that you fi nd \;\n useful. \;\n\n\nTags: linux\, plug\, open source\, bsd \, software freedom\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/125045 9580 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Mini-presentations on variety of topic s LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110201T222909Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110203T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110203T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110201T222909Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110201T222909Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250459718 DESCRIPTION: Presentation \;\n What is Open? \;\n by \;\n David Mandel \; \n \;\n \;\n David Mandel is interested in distilling the core ideas \;\n from the philosophy of Open Source Software and exte nding \;\n these into other areas like music\, publishing\, farmi ng\, \;\n and education. In the past he has given presentations \;\n on Open Source Agriculture. \;\n \;\n In this pre sentation\, David wants to discuss Open Source \;\n in education. This is not a presentation about using \;\n Open Source Softwa re in traditional classrooms as much \;\n as it is a discussion a bout using Open Source Philosophy \;\n to change traditional clas srooms. We will discuss the \;\n work of John Gatto author of & quot\;Dumbing Us Down"\;\, the Moore \;\n Method of teaching mathematics\, and David Mandel's personal \;\n experience teach ing mathematics and computer classes in \;\n community colleges. \;\n\n\nTags: linux\, plug\, open source\, bsd\, software freedom\n\ nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250459718 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: What is Open? LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110131T212622Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110210T180000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110210T160000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110131T212622Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110131T212622Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250459715 DESCRIPTION:Second meeting of the PDX11 Working Group on Knowledge Networ ks - part of the City's Software Initiative to make Portland the most aw esome place in the world to start and run your software business. \;\ n \;\nFor this meeting\, we'll go over the "\;Ideal Meeting Room Features"\; list\, finalize it\, and then begin discussion on a dire ctory of meeting spaces\, perhaps built around the Features list. \; \n \;\nSubscribe to the discussion list: http://lists.pdx11.org/mailm an/listinfo/pdx11-knowledge \;\n\n\nTags: pdx11\, user groups\n\nImpo rted from: http://calagator.org/events/1250459715 URL:http://www.pdx11.org/ SUMMARY:PDX11 Knowledge Network Group LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110302T161510Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110303T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110303T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110302T161510Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110302T161510Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250459869 DESCRIPTION:Presentation \;\nFree Content and the Data Revolution \ ;\nby \;\nDaniel Hedlund \;\n \;\nThe amount of information ava ilable on the Internet has exploded in recent years and shows no sign of slowing down. Most of this information is freely available to anyone w ith a web browser --- but what does free mean? Daniel Hedlund will lead a discussion on the meaning of open data and explore how the open sourc e movement is no longer constrained to the realm of software.\n\nTags: l inux\, plug\, open source\, bsd\, software freedom\n\nImported from: htt p://calagator.org/events/1250459869 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Free Content and the Data Revolution LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110503T224429Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110505T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110505T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110503T224429Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110503T234717Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250460556 DESCRIPTION: Presentation \;\n \;\n Comments on the IPv6 Transition \;\n by \;\n Ted Mittelstaedt \;\ n of \;\n P ortlandia IT \;\n \;\n \;\n Ted Mittelstaedt of Portlandia I T will talk about IP addressing \;\n in general and how the IPv4 t o IPv6 transition is being received \;\n by the Internet community . This talk is part of a series of \;\n timely IPv6 PLUG talks tha t Ted is giving over the coming months. \;\n\n\nTags: linux\, plug\, open source\, bsd\, software freedom\n\nImported from: http://calagator. org/events/1250460556 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Comments on the IPv6 Transition LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110524T194146Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110527T143000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110527T130000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110524T194146Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110524T234707Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250460642 DESCRIPTION:Scrap Your Zippers: A Generic Zipper \;\nfor Heterogeneous Types \;\n \;\nMichael Adams\, Indiana University \;\n \;\ nAbstract \;\nThe zipper type provides the ability to efficiently edi t tree-shaped data in a purely functional setting by providing constant time edits at a focal point in an immutable structure. It is used in a n umber of applications and is widely applicable for manipulating tree-sha ped data structures. \;\n \;\nThe traditional zipper suffers from two major limitations\, however. First\, it operates only on homogeneou s types. That is to say\, every node the zipper visits must have the sam e type. In practice\, many tree-shaped types do not satisfy this conditi on\, and thus cannot be handled by the traditional zipper. Second\, the traditional zipper involves a significant amount of boilerplate code. A custom implementation must be written for each type the zipper traverses . This is error prone and must be updated whenever the type being traver sed changes. \;\n \;\nThe generic zipper presented in this talk ov ercomes these limitations. It operates over any type and requires no bo ilerplate code to be written by the user. The only restriction is that t he types traversed must be instances of the Data class from the Scrap yo ur Boilerplate framework. \;\n \;\nBiography \;\nMichael D. Ada ms will be completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Indiana Universit y this summer. He has a B.S. in Computer Science\, a B.S in Computer En gineering and a Minor in Mathematics from the University of Kansas. \;\n \;\nHis research interests are the implementation and constructi on of programming languages\, compilers and software analysis tools that help programmers more easily implement\, reason about\, prove correct a nd improve the performance of their programs. This includes areas such as type systems\, static analysis\, control-flow analysis\, compilers an d optimization. \;\n \;\nIn spring 2007\, he worked on the X10 lan guage for an internship at IBM Research. In summer 2007\, he worked on t he Glasgow Haskell Compiler at Microsoft Research. In 2008-2010 he worke d for Cadence Research on the Chez Scheme compiler. \;\n \;\nHe is an avid swing dancer and cyclist.\n\nTags: cs\, functional\, data struc tures\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250460642 URL:http://www.cs.pdx.edu/ SUMMARY:PSU CS Colloquium: Scrap Your Zippers: A Generic Zipper for Heter ogeneous Types LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110531T181526Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110602T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110602T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110531T181526Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110531T181526Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250460658 DESCRIPTION: Presentation \;\n \;\n Introduction to OpenEMR \;\n by \;\n Tony McCormick \;\n \;\n \;\n Introduction to OpenEMR\, maybe the most downloaded open source \;\n Electronic Heath Reco rds system in the world. This presentation \;\n will discuss h ow one of the first web based\, php projects became \;\n a gover nment certified EHR. We'll demo the system\, talk about \;\n th e good\, bad and ugly of a 10 year old project with ~500\,000 \;\n lines of code and get feed back on ways to move forward with \;\n out breaking the existing use. ie: upgrade paths and models\, etc. \;\n\n\nTags: linux\, plug\, open source\, bsd\, software freedom\n\ nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250460658 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Introduction to OpenEMR LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110705T201217Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110707T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110707T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110705T201217Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110705T201217Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250460801 DESCRIPTION: \;\n \;\n PRESENTATION& #13\;\n \;\n Rapid Discussions \;\n 3\;\n on \;\n \;\n Any Topic \;\n \;\n by \;\n \;\n Anyone &\; Everyone \;\n \;\n Instead of having a formal presentation\, w e will get together and \;\n discuss anything anyone wants to dis cuss in brief sessions of no \;\n more than a few minutes each. If we have enough people involved \;\n we can break into smaller groups to handle each topic. \;\n \;\n One very short topic th at I will be prepared to discuss for \;\n a few minutes will be:& #13\;\n - Open Source at Two Year Colleges \;\n Why are text books so damn expensive? \;\n \;\n AND YES - We a re looking for speakers for upcoming months. \;\n Volunt eers and Recommendations are welcome. \;\n\n\nTags: linux\, plug\, op en source\, bsd\, software freedom\n\nImported from: http://calagator.or g/events/1250460801 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Rapid Discussions on Any Topic LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110429T183315Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110711T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110711T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110429T183315Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110711T173839Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250460535 DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE GROUP: Join programmers\, researchers and enthusias ts to discuss functional programming. pdxfunc is a study/user group expl oring the world of functional programming based in Portland\, Oregon. Th e group welcomes programmers interested in all functional languages\, in cluding Haskell\, Erlang\, OCaml\, Scala\, and others. The group meets r egularly and provides presentations\, demos and discussions applicable t o all skill levels\, from newbies and experts. The meetings are usually on the second Monday of the month.\n\nTags: epdx:group=11\, functional p rogramming\, pdxfunc\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/12504 60535 URL:http://pdxfunc.org/ SUMMARY:Portland Functional Programming Study Group LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110801T224749Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110804T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110804T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110801T224749Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110801T224749Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250461172 DESCRIPTION: \;\n PRESENTATION \;\n \;\n Open Source Software \;\n \;\n in \;\n \;\n State Agencies \;\n \;\n by \;\n \;\n Michael Smith \;\n \;\n Michael Smith works for the State of Oregon. He will di scuss \;\n his experience introducing and trying to introduce O pen Source \;\n Solutions into state government agencies. \;\ n \;\n Note: We may update this description as we get more deta ils.\n\nTags: linux\, plug\, open source\, bsd\, software freedom\n\nImp orted from: http://calagator.org/events/1250461172 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: The Use of Open Source Software in S tate Agencies LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110830T194723Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110901T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110901T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110830T194723Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110830T194723Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250461250 DESCRIPTION: \;\n \;\n PRESENTA TION \;\n \;\n Rapid Discussions 3\;\n \;\n on \;\n \;\ n Any Topic \;\n \;\n by \;\n \;\n Anyone &\; Everyone \;\n \;\n Instead of having a formal presentation\, we will get together and \;\n discuss anyt hing anyone wants to discuss in brief sessions of no \;\n more t han a few minutes each. If we have enough people involved \;\n we can break into smaller groups to handle each topic. \;\n \;\n AND YES - We are looking for speakers for upcoming months. \;\n We have been having trouble finding speakers lately. \; \n Volunteers and Recommendations are welcome. \;\n \n \nTags: linux\, plug\, open source\, bsd\, software freedom\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250461250 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Rapid Discussions on Any Topic LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111003T184357Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111006T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111006T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111003T184357Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111003T184357Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250461413 DESCRIPTION: PRESENTATION \;\n \;\n Arch Linux \;\n \;\n by \;\n \;\n Daniel H edlund \;\n \;\n \;\n Arch Linux is an independently developed\, i686- and x86_64-optimised \;\n Linux distribution targeted at competent Linux users. It uses \;\n 'pacman'\, its home-grown package manager\, to provide updates \; \n to the latest software applications with full dependency tracking . \;\n Operating on a rolling release system\, Arch can be insta lled from \;\n a CD image or via an FTP server. The default inst all provides a \;\n solid base that enables users to create a cu stom installation. \;\n In addition\, the Arch Build System (ABS ) provides a way to easily \;\n build new packages\, modify the configuration of stock packages\, \;\n and share these packages with other users via the Arch Linux \;\n user repository. \;\ n \n\nTags: linux\, plug\, open source\, bsd\, software freedom\n\nImpor ted from: http://calagator.org/events/1250461413 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Arch Linux LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111010T211825Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111010T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111010T183000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111010T211825Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111010T211825Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250461454 DESCRIPTION:Jon Bach is coming to our local agile users group to tell us about his specialty\, exploratory testing. Pizza at 6:30\, meeting at 7 . \;\n \;\nTalk: "\;Exploratory Testing: Now In Session"\; \;\n \;\nThe agile nature of exploration and the ability of test ers to rapidly apply their skills and experience make exploratory testin g a widely used test approach—especially when time is short. But explora tory testing is often dismissed by project managers who assume that it i s not reproducible\, measurable\, or accountable. If you share these con cerns\, a solution may lie in a technique called Session-Based Test Mana gement (SBTM)\, developed by Jon and his brother James specifically to a ddress these problems. In SBTM\, testers are assigned areas of a product to explore\, and testing is time boxed in "\;sessions"\; which have mission statements called “charters” to create a meaningful and cou ntable unit of work. Jon discusses—and you can practice—the skills of ex ploration and demonstrates a freely available\, open source tool to help manage your exploratoration. \;\n \;\nSpeaker Bio: Jon Bach has b een in testing for 14 years\, 12 of which has been as a manager. His ex perience includes managing teams at Microsoft\, HP and LexisNexis\, and is currently a managing consultant for Quardev\, Inc. -- a Seattle test lab. He speaks frequently about test management and exploratory testing \, and is the co-inventor (with his brother James) of Session-Based Test Management. He’s also written a few articles for testing magazines as well as a listed co-author of a Microsoft Patterns and Practices book on acceptance testing (available for free online). Find him on Facebook\, Twitter\, or his presentations and articles on http://www.quardev.com\, where he also has a blog.\n\nTags: agile\, agilepdx\, exploratory testi ng\, testing\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250461454 URL:http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xpportland/ SUMMARY:AgilePDX: Jon Bach talks about exploratory testing LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111021T225911Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111024T111500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111024T101500 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111021T225911Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111021T231600Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250461509 DESCRIPTION:We will describe a new approach to the old problem of automat ic temporal property verification. As well as leading to dramatic perfor mance improvements over existing techniques\, this approach also brings some light to a couple of age-old questions.\n\nImported from: http://ca lagator.org/events/1250461509 URL:http://www.cs.pdx.edu SUMMARY:A New Approach to Temporal Property Verification\, Byron Cook\, P rincipal Researcher\, Microsoft Research Cambridge and Professor of Comp uter Science at Queen Mary\, University of London LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111021T005821Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111026T140000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111026T130000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111021T005821Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111021T231600Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250461501 DESCRIPTION:GPU architectures are often described in confusing and overly optimistic terms. The AMD Fusion APU architecture provides improvements in communication latency and bandwidth between devices\, so the problem of choosing the right core on which to execute code becomes both more a cute and more flexible as communication between tasks becomes easier. Bu t as the CPU and GPU become ever closer\, how does one program these mac hines? This talk takes a look at these emerging architectures\; touches on the current parallel programming models for CPUs and GPGPUs\; and fo llows this with a perspective on what future programming models for hete rogeneous architectures will look like.\n\nImported from: http://calagat or.org/events/1250461501 URL:http://www.cs.pdx.edu SUMMARY:Braided Parallelism - A Programmers Perspective Benedict Gaster\, Programming Models Architect\, AMD LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111024T215521Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111028T144500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111028T133000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111024T215521Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111024T231855Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250461511 DESCRIPTION:In the 1970’s\, researchers at Xerox PARC gave themselves a g limpse of the future by building computers that\, although wildly imprac tical at the time\, let them experience plentiful fast cycles and big me mories. PARC researchers invented Smalltalk\, and the freedom afforded b y such a dynamic\, yet safe\, language\, led them to create a new experi ence of computing\, which has become quite mainstream today. \;\n \;\nIn the end of the first decade of the new century\, chips such as 3\;\nTilera’s can give us a glimpse of a future in which manycore \;\ nmicroprocessors will become commonplace: every (non-hand-held) computer ’s CPU chip will contain 1\,000 fairly homogeneous cores. Such a system will not be programmed like the cloud\, or even a cluster because commun ication will be much faster relative to computation. Nor will it be prog rammed like today’s multicore processors because the illusion of instant memory coherency will have been dispelled by both the physical limitati ons imposed by the 1\,000-way fan-in to the memory system\, and the comp aratively long physical lengths of the inter- vs. intra-core connections . In the 1980’s we changed our model of computation from static to dynam ic\, and when this future arrives we will have to change our model of co mputation yet again. \;\n \;\nIf we cannot skirt Amdahl’s Law\, th e last 900 cores will do us no \;\ngood whatsoever. What does this me an? We cannot afford even tiny amounts of serialization. Locks?! Even lo ck-free algorithms will not be parallel enough. They rely on instruction s that require communication and synchronization between cores’ caches. Just as we learned to embrace languages without static type checking\, a nd with the ability to shoot ourselves in the foot\, we will need to emb race a style of programming without any synchronization whatsoever. \ ;\n \;\nIn our Renaissance project at IBM\, Vrije\, and Portland Stat e \;\n(http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr/renaissance/)\, we are investigat ing \;\nwhat we call “anti-lock\,” “race-and-repair\,” or “end-to-end \;\nnondeterministic” computing. As part of this effort\, we have bu ild a Smalltalk system that runs on the 64-core Tilera chip\, and have e xperimented with dynamic languages atop this system. When we give up syn chronization\, we of necessity give up determinism. There seems to be a fundamental tradeoff between determinism and performance\, just as there once seemed to be a tradeoff between static checking and performance.&# 13\;\n \;\nThe obstacle we shall have to overcome\, if we are to succ essfully program manycore systems\, is our cherished assumption that we write programs that always get the exactly right answers. This assumptio n is deeply embedded in how we think about programming. The folks who bu ild web search engines already understand\, but for the rest of us\, to quote Firesign Theatre: Everything You Know Is Wrong! \;\n\n\nImporte d from: http://calagator.org/events/1250461511 URL:http://www.cs.pdx.edu SUMMARY:Everything you know (about Parallel Programming) is wrong!: A wil d screed about the future LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111031T155954Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111103T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111103T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111031T155954Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120419T212039Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250461537 DESCRIPTION:PRESENTATION ONE \;\n \;\nHands-On IPv6 Networking by T ed Mittelstaedt \;\n \;\nTed will wrap-up his multi-month series o n IPv6 networking with some demonstrations of real-world DNS client and server configuration and web content serving. \;\n \;\n \;\nPRE SENTATION TWO \;\n \;\nDaniel Hedlund will give an introduction to GitHub and demonstrate some command line tools for interacting with Git Hub and how you can host a website on GitHub using Octopress (octopress. org) \;\n \;\n \;\nWe will break for the Lucky Lab NW on Quimby after the meeting. \;\n\n\nTags: beer\, linux\, networking\, open so urce\, web\, bsd\, dns\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/125 0461537 URL:http://pdxlinux.org SUMMARY:PLUG November Meeting: Hands-on IPv6\, Web Hosting with GitHub LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111129T035619Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111201T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111201T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111129T035619Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120419T212039Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250461633 DESCRIPTION: \;\n PRESENTATION \;\n \;\n Don't Fear the Autotools! \;\n \;\n by \;\n \;\n Scott Garman \;\n \;\n \;\n Autoconf. Automake. Libtool. This trio of buil d configuration \;\n utilities (known as the Autotools) are used in a large majority \;\n of compiled software applications for Linux\, but they remain a \;\n mystery to many of us. \;\n 3\;\n In this gentle introduction to the Autotools\, Scott Garman wi ll \;\n help lift the veil of uncertainty most people have about them. \;\n You'll also learn about the Gnu Coding Standards and the Filesystem \;\n Hierarchy Standard\, two specifications whi ch explain a lot of the \;\n "\;why"\; behind the Autoto ols (yes\, there is a method to this madness!). \;\n Finally\, S cott will offer some practical tips for understanding \;\n and f ixing errors you may see when building an Autotools-based \;\n p ackage. It's sure to be a fun romp for the whole family. \;\n\n\nTags : beer\, linux\, networking\, open source\, web\, bsd\, dns\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250461633 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Don't Fear the Autotools! LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120104T004203Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120105T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120105T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120104T004203Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120419T212039Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250461797 DESCRIPTION: \;\n PRESENTATION \;\n by \;\n Ke ith Lofstrom \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n Since 2005\, Randall Munroe's xkcd.com\, "\;A webcomic of romance\, \;\n sarcasm\, math\, and language"\; has covere d many topics dear to FOSS \;\n advocates and has been discussed on the PLUG list many times. \;\n The #1000 comic is expected to appear Friday January 6 just after \;\n midnight eastern time\, m aking Thursday January 5 "\;xkcd1k eve"\;. \;\n \;\n Join us for a celebration of XKCD1K eve at the PLUG general \;\n meeting. We can display and discuss/explain some of the \;\n Free/Libre/Open source cartoons\, the various weblogs and forums \;\ n that have sprung up around them\, draw our own cartoons (Keith \;\n will bring art paper and pens)\, perhaps discuss the technology \;\n of web comics. \;\n \;\n Homework: bring yo ur own list of favorite xkcd cartoons\, and \;\n we will display them at the meeting. Bring your artistic and \;\n "\;right b rained"\; friends. Bring your black porkpie hat. If \;\n yo u are Richard Stallman\, bring your katana sword. \;\n \;\n Afterwards\, at the Lucky Lab Brew Pub at 1945 nw Quimby\, we \;\n can welcome comic #1000\, just after 9pm Pacific Time. Or not\, 3\;\n Randall is a trickster and may give us strip #1025\, avoiding& #13\;\n the definition the size of a "\;kilo"\; ( http://xkc d.com/394/ ) . \;\n\n\nTags: beer\, linux\, networking\, open source\ , web\, bsd\, dns\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/12504617 97 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: The xkcd1k Eve Celebration LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120130T213832Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120202T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120202T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120130T213832Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120419T212040Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250461908 DESCRIPTION: Intro to Salt / Salt Stack (saltstack.org)&# 13\;\n by Daniel Hedlund \;\n \;\nSa lt is a distributed configuration management and remote execution platfo rm built on top of ZeroMQ and Python. Simple\, fast\, powerful and exte nsible. \;\n \;\nDaniel will give a presentation on the architectu re of Salt and how it leverages ZeroMQ to provide a simple but highly sc alable and parallel method of software deployment. \;\n \;\n"\ ;Salt is a distributed remote execution system used to execute commands and query data. It was developed in order to bring the best solutions fo und in the world of remote execution together and make them better\, fas ter and more malleable. Salt accomplishes this via its ability to handle larger loads of information\, and not just dozens\, but hundreds or eve n thousands of individual servers\, handle them quickly and through a si mple and manageable interface."\;\n\nTags: beer\, linux\, networking \, open source\, web\, bsd\, devops\, zeromq\n\nImported from: http://ca lagator.org/events/1250461908 URL:http://pdxLinux.org SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group: Intro to Salt / Salt Stack (saltstack. org) LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120216T001516Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120301T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120301T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120216T001516Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120419T212040Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250461970 DESCRIPTION:Open Data and Interoperability by Arlo Belshee \;\n \;\ nLots of us want to expose our data via RESTful web APIs. We also want t o consume data exposed via such APIs. REST + Json works well for this. H owever\, we'd also like to mash up multiple data sources and build highe r level tools. For example\, it would be nice to create Business Intelli gence (BI) tools that can point to any API and start charting the data\, or create JavaScript control libraries that can be bound directly to da ta sources. \;\n \;\nUnfortunately\, that isn't possible with just REST + Json. \;\n \;\nThe problem is that each service is custom. No two services follow exactly the same rules. Sure\, everything expose s sets of resources. But how do you get from a resource to its related r esources? How do you ask the server to tell you about related resources? What\, exactly should the server do when it gets a PATCH verb? Each ser ver interprets these differently\, which prevents making general tools.& #13\;\n \;\nI'm going to talk about the OData protocol. This is an op en standard that defines uniform semantics and modeling for RESTful web services. I'll show how this allows general tools to be built\, and data from multiple sources to be combined together in interesting ways - wit hout requiring custom code for each server. I'll also show how this enab les people working in different languages. A single library can be writt en for each language which can then support all OData-compliant RESTful web services. \;\n \;\nMost of the examples will be with open sour ce frameworks and tools\, but I'll also show ways that you can use OData to break out data that is trapped in closed-source systems and expose i t to the open source ecosystem. \;\n \;\nAgenda: \;\n \;\n7: 00 - 7:30 Business \;\nWe will discuss the status of our ongoing pro jects including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings\, PLUG's monthly hands on clinics etc. \;\n \;\n7:30 - 8:30 Presentation and Ques tions \;\n \;\nSee above \;\n \;\n9:00 - ... Beer \;\nTh e Lucky Lab Northwest Beer Hall \;\n1945 NW Quimby \;\nPortland\, Oregon\n\nTags: ruby\, beer\, linux\, python\, perl\, bsd\, devops\, www \, odata\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250461970 URL:http://pdxlinux.org/ SUMMARY:PLUG: OData Open Data and Interoperability LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:5 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120312T231458Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120405T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120405T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120312T231458Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120419T212040Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250462134 DESCRIPTION:FreePBX - Asterisk - Trixbox \;\n \;\nBill Ensley will give an introduction to Asterisk\, FreePBX and Trixbox. \;\n \;\nC ome learn some ins\, outs\, and gotchas of how each of these \;\nsyst ems interact and build on top of eachother. \;\n \;\nWe will cover (time permitting): \;\n \;\nSystem Requirements \;\nHow to rol l your own or go Appliance \;\nBasic Installation \;\nTrunk Setup& #13\;\nIP Phones - User/Network Setup \;\nEcho Cancellation - Hardwar e and Software \;\nManual Config Editing \;\nIVR and Advanced Call Routing \;\n \;\nAny other questions that come up that we think w e can answer. \;\n \;\nSee you there!\n\nTags: beer\, linux\, open source\, bsd\, software freedom\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/ events/1250462134 URL:http://pdxlinux.org/ SUMMARY:Portland Linux/Unix Group (PLUG): Asterisk\, FreePBX and Trixbox LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:5 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120403T220133Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120409T111500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120409T101500 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120403T220133Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120419T212040Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250462229 DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \;\n \;\nAgents\, defined as programs or rob ots that interact with their environment\, are becoming increasingly com mon. However\, the current generation of agents are often unable to robu stly interact with each other\, or with humans\, severely limiting the n umber of tasks that they can accomplish. Furthermore\, these agents typi cally are unable to \;\nadapt to their environment\, a critical skill when programmers do not have full knowledge of agents' future environme nts or when the agents' environment may change over time. This talk will discuss recent work in combining autonomous learning of sequential deci sion making tasks with transfer learning\, a general approach to sharing knowledge between agents with different capabilities\, resulting in sig nificant improvements to learning speeds and abilities.\n\nTags: psu\, c omputer science\, colloquium\, learning agents\n\nImported from: http:// calagator.org/events/1250462229 URL:http://www.pdx.edu/computer-science/colloquium-and-other-events-0 SUMMARY:Real-Life Learning Agents LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120403T215211Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120410T111500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120410T101500 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120403T215211Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120403T215211Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250462227 DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \;\n \;\nProbabilistic graphical models are u sed to represent uncertainty in many domains\, such as error-correcting codes\, computational biology\, sensor networks and medical diagnosis. T his talk will discuss two approaches to the problem of learning graphica l models from data\, focusing on computational challenges. The first is marginalization-based learning\, where parameters are fit in the context of a specific approximate inference algorithm. This will include result s on image processing and computer vision problems. The second is recent work on Markov chain Monte Carlo based learning\, inspired by a computa tional biology project.\n\nTags: psu\, computer science\, colloquium\, G raphical Models\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250462227 URL:http://www.pdx.edu/computer-science/colloquium-and-other-events-0 SUMMARY:Efficiently Learning Probabilistic Graphical Models LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120403T220316Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120411T111500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120411T101500 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120403T220316Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120419T212040Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250462230 DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \;\n \;\nThe stereotypical view of computing\ , and hence computer security\, is a landscape filled with laptops\, des ktops\, smartphones and servers\; general purpose computers in the prope r sense. However\, this is but the visible tip of the iceberg. In fact\, most computing today is invisibly embedded into systems and environment s that few of us would ever think of as computers. Indeed\, applications in virtually all walks of modern life\, from automobiles to medical dev ices\, power grids to voting machines\, have evolved to rely on the same substrate of general purpose microprocessors and (frequently) network c onnectivity that underlie our personal computers. Yet along with the pow er of these capabilities come the same potential risks as well. My resea rch has focused on understanding the scope of such problems by exploring vulnerabilities in the embedded environment\, how they arise\, and the shape of the attack surfaces they expose. \;\n \;\nIn this talk\, I will particularly discuss recent work on two large-scale platforms: m odern automobiles and electronic voting machines. In each case\, I will explain how implicit or explicit assumptions in the design of the system s have opened them to attack. I will demonstrate these problems\, concre tely and completely\, including arbitrary control over election results and remote tracking and control of an unmodified automobile. I will expl ain the nature of these problems\, how they have come to arise\, and the challenges in hardening such systems going forward.\n\nTags: psu\, comp uter science\, colloquium\, embedded security\n\nImported from: http://c alagator.org/events/1250462230 URL:http://www.pdx.edu/computer-science/colloquium-and-other-events-0 SUMMARY:Motors\, Voters\, and the Future of Embedded Security LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120403T220612Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120413T111500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120413T101500 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120403T220612Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120419T212040Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250462231 DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \;\n \;\nIn this talk\, I describe two side-c hannel traffic analysis attacks on encrypted voice-over-IP calls and a n ovel technique for efficiently defending against such attacks. We begin with a review of the basics of speech coding to understand how and why i nformation can leak out of an encrypted VoIP call. We then discuss the t echniques for recovering hidden information: first\, how to identify the language spoken in the call\, and then how to spot particular phrases. Our techniques are completely speaker-independent\, and require no recor ded examples of the target phrase. Nevertheless\, we show that they achi eve surprising accuracy on widely-used speech corpora. Finally\, we cons ider methods for limiting this information leakage. Experimental results show that an intelligent\, adaptive adversary can convincingly deceive such traffic analyses while incurring much lower overhead than previousl y expected.\n\nTags: psu\, computer science\, colloquium\, voip\, encryp tion\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250462231 URL:http://www.pdx.edu/computer-science/colloquium-and-other-events-0 SUMMARY:Information Leakage from Encrypted Voice over IP: Attacks and Def enses LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120403T221044Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120413T143000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120413T133000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120403T221044Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120419T212040Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250462234 DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \;\n \;\nSatisfiability (SAT) and satisfiabil ity module theories (SMT) solvers are efficient automated theorem prover s widely used in several fields such as formal verification and artifici al intelligence. Although SAT/SMT are traditional propositional and pred icate logics and well understood\, SAT/SMT solvers are complex software highly optimized for performance. Because SAT/SMT solvers are commonly u sed as the final verdict for formal verification problems\, their correc tness is an important issue. This talk discusses two methods to formally certify SAT/SMT solvers. First method is generating proofs from solvers and certifying those proofs. One of the issues for proof checking is th at SMT logics are constantly growing and a flexible framework to express proof rules is needed. The proposal is to use a meta-language called LF SC\, which is based on Edinburgh Logical Frame with an extension for exp ressing computational side conditions. SAT and SMT logics can be encoded in LFSC\, and the encoding can be easily and safely extended for new lo gics. And it has been shown that an optimized LFSC checker can certify S MT proofs very efficiently. Second method is using a verified programmin g language to implement a SAT solver and verify the code statically. Gur u is a pure functional programming language with support for dependent t ypes and theorem proving. A modern SAT solver has been implemented and v erified to be correct in Guru. Also\, Guru allows very efficient code ge neration through resource types\, so the performance of versat is compar able with that of the current proof checking technology with a state-of- the-art solver.\n\nTags: psu\, computer science\, colloquium\, satisfyia bility solving\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250462234 URL:http://www.pdx.edu/computer-science/colloquium-and-other-events-0 SUMMARY:Duckki Oe\, Formally Certified Satisfiability Solving LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120403T220714Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120416T111500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120416T101500 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120403T220714Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120419T212040Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250462232 DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \;\n \;\nThe focus of my research is on enab ling novel kinds of interaction between the user and the information in a variety of digital environments\, ranging from social content sites\, to digital libraries\, to the Web. In the first part of this talk\, I w ill present an approach for tracking and querying fine-grained provenanc e in data-intensive workflows. A workflow is an encoding of a sequence o f steps that progressively transform data products. Workflows help make experiments reproducible\, and may be used to answer questions about dat a provenance – the dependencies between input\, intermediate\, and outpu t data. I will describe a declarative framework that captures fine-grain ed dependencies\, enabling novel kinds of analytic queries\, and will de monstrate that careful design and leveraging distributed processing make tracking and querying fine-grained provenance feasible. In the second part of this talk\, I will discuss information discovery on the Social W eb\, where users provide information about themselves in stored profiles \, register their relationships with other users\, and express their pre ferences with respect to information and products. I will argue that in formation discovery should account for a user's social context\, and wil l present network-aware search – a novel search paradigm in which result relevance is computed with respect to a user's social network. I will d escribe efficient algorithms appropriate for this setting\, and will sho w how social similarities between users may be leveraged to make process ing more efficient. \n\nTags: psu\, computer science\, colloquium\, data sets\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250462232 URL:http://www.pdx.edu/computer-science/colloquium-and-other-events-0 SUMMARY:Title: Information Discovery in Large Complex Datasets LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T064222Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120616T200000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120616T100000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T064222Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T064222Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250462401 DESCRIPTION:Join us for another joint Debian / Ubuntu collaboration on bu g-squashing! \;\n \;\nWe'll be focusing on multi-arch\, bitesized bugs\, and more.\n\nTags: linux\, ubuntu\, Debian\, bugs\n\nImported fro m: http://calagator.org/events/1250462401 URL:http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-us-or/1789/detail/ SUMMARY:Debian / Ubuntu Bug Squashing Party LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120712T005915Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120718T220000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120718T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120712T005915Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120712T005915Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250462581 DESCRIPTION:This is the inaugural meeting of the PDX Inform 7 Interest Gr oup. \;\n \;\nAs our name implies\, our principal interest is in t he Interactive Fiction authoring language Inform 7. Inform 7 is designed to let anyone\, programmer or no\, write Interactive Fiction quickly an d easily. You probably won't be surprised to learn that we are also inte rested in Interactive Fiction in general\, in other Interactive Fiction authoring tools\, and in most any related interesting topics. \;\n 3\;\nFor our first meeting\, I (Bart Massey) will lead a little bit of i ntroductory discussion about Inform 7\, and we'll make plans for future meetings and projects.\n\nTags: Interactive Fiction\, Inform 7\n\nImport ed from: http://calagator.org/events/1250462581 URL:https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pdxinform SUMMARY:Inform 7 Interest Group LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121012T163730Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121015T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121015T103000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121012T163730Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121012T165119Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250462967 DESCRIPTION:Title: Test-Driven Development and Mock Objects for C++ in E clipse \;\n \;\nSpeaker: Prof Peter Sommerlad\, Institute for Sof tware at FHO/HSR Rapperswil\, Switzerland \;\n \;\n \;\nAbstrac t \;\n \;\nAt IFS Institute for Software\, several plug-ins have b een developed for the Eclipse C/C++ Development Tools (CDT)\, to assist Agile C++ developers. Some of the features have already been integrated into CDT\, such as the refactoring infrastructure and some refactorings \, such as toggling function definition and declaration. In this talk P rof. Sommerlad will explain how IFS's plug-ins make it easier to adopt a n agile style of development\, through code-generation for Test-driven D evelopment (TDD)\, unit testing\, test doubles and mock objects\, quick feedback from static analysis tools\, and quick-fixes for problems. \;\n \;\nSpeaker Bio: \;\n \;\nProf. Peter Sommerlad is head of IFS Institute for Software at FHO/HSR Rapperswil. Peter is co-author of the books POSA Vol.1 and Security Patterns. His goal is to make softwar e simpler by Decremental Development: refactoring software down to 10% o f its size with better architecture\, testability and quality and functi onality. Peter is the also the author of the CUTE unit testing framework . He inspired and leads several Eclipse CDT plug-in projects\, such as t he CUTE unit testing\, Sconsolidator\, Mockator\, Linticator\, and Inclu dator. IFS contributed most of the CDT refactoring infrastructure and is employing it to develop further TDD and Refactoring support for Eclipse CDT.\n\nTags: agile\, psu\, computer science\, refactoring\, colloquium \, eclipse\, C++\, Mock Objects\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/e vents/1250462967 URL:http://pdx.edu/computer-science/colloquium-and-other-events-0 SUMMARY:Research Talk: Agile Tooling for C++ LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121009T205809Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121022T114500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121022T103000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121009T205809Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121009T223600Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250462944 DESCRIPTION:Dave Ackley\, Computer Science Department\, University of New Mexico \;\n \;\nEfficiency and robustness are mortal enemies\, in herently opposed on the value of redundancy\, which robustness requires but efficiency eliminates. This talk argues that\, by emphasizing effic iency alone\, computer science is often optimizing the wrong thing\, and we could do better\, and should\, by recognizing and managing the trade off explicitly. An illustration of efficiency's costs is presented\, al ong with discussion of possible computing mechanisms when robustness is emphasized even over correctness. \;\n \;\nBio: \;\nDavid H. Ackley is an associate professor of Computer Science at the University o f New Mexico\, with degrees from Tufts and Carnegie Mellon. Over twenty- five years his research contributions have involved neural networks and machine learning\, evolutionary algorithms and artificial life\, and bio logical approaches to computer security and computer \;\narchitecture . \;\n\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250462944 URL:http://www.pdx.edu/computer-science/colloquium-and-other-events-0 SUMMARY:Robust-first computing: Beyond correctness and efficiency Colloqu ium LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130115T023150Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130118T173000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130118T163000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130115T023150Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130115T023150Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250463402 DESCRIPTION:Bio: Michael G Schwern is the author of Test::More (the Perl testing \;\nsystem) and Gitpan\, 21\,000 repositories on Github repr esenting every \;\nrelease of every Perl module on CPAN. Schwern doe s not push to master\, \;\nmaster pushes to Schwern. \;\n \;\nS ynopsis: \;\nTinker Toys are the best illustration of a Git repositor y I’ve found. \;\nSide-by-side with issuing Git commands\, we’ll buil d a Git repository out \;\nof kid’s toys to show what’s going on behi nd the scenes. Mind bending \;\nconcepts like remote branches\, rebas e and the staging area become \;\nchild’s play. \;\n \;\nBasic knowledge of git commands is expected of the audience (init\, add\, \ ;\ncommit\, diff\, log\, push\, pull). If you’ve started using git\, but are \;\nuncomfortable with it and don’t really get it\, this is for you. \;\n \;\nWARNING: CHOKING HAZARD – Small Parts. Not For Child ren Under 4 Years.\n\nTags: git\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/e vents/1250463402 SUMMARY:The PSU ACM presents Git For Ages 4 And Up by Michael Schwern LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130128T191039Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130201T173000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130201T163000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130128T191039Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130128T191058Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250463461 DESCRIPTION: \;\nWorking in software and with computers means wildly d ifferent things depending on who you talk to. In open source\, the work spans every aspect of software development -- from the marketing and doc umentation to the troubleshooting end-user systems. \;\n \;\nThe & quot\;community manager"\; or "\;organizer"\; role in open s ource communities is probably the least-well defined in our industry\, b ut is seen as a crucial part of open source software development. \; \n \;\nSelena will talk about her work as a serial user group starter \, open source conference circuit speaker\, conference organizer and con tributor to PostgreSQL -- all roles considered part of community managem ent. She'll also talk about other kinds of community management roles av ailable at small and large companies\, or as a volunteer in an open sour ce project. \;\n \;\nAbout the speaker: \;\n \;\nSelena is a major contributor to PostgreSQL\, she founded and runs the Postgres Op en conference and keeps chickens. Selena has been working with open sour ce software for over 15 years.She's keynoted at SCALE\, DjangoCon and LI SA\, and regularly gives technical talks about Postgres\, open source an d trolling. She is currently a data architect at Mozilla\, makers of the Firefox browser.\n\nTags: opensource community software\n\nImported fro m: http://calagator.org/events/1250463461 URL:http://acm.pdx.edu/ SUMMARY:The PSU ACM Presents "Collaborative chaos: what it means to write code\, manage projects and work with people in open source communities" by Selena Decklmann of Mozilla LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130206T231914Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130208T173000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130208T163000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130206T231914Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130206T231914Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250463533 DESCRIPTION:The Portal Transportation Data Archive is a ~2TB PostgreSQL d atabase \;\nthat has been in existence since 2004. Kristin will demon strate the \;\ncurrent state of Portal. She will discuss the various technologies used \;\n to collect the data and the complexities of ge tting the data from the \;\nsensors to the database. She will also di scuss her experiences working \;\ndirectly with local transportation agencies (ODOT\, Metro\, Trimet\, Cities \;\nof Portland and Vancouve r) to produce a web site that is useful in their \;\nday-to-day opera tions. \;\n \;\nAbout the speaker: \;\n \;\nKristin Tufte is an assistant professor of Computer Science and Civil \;\nEngineering at Portland State University. Kristin is a recovering \;\ndatabase g eek.\n\nTags: portal transportation\n\nImported from: http://calagator.o rg/events/1250463533 URL:http://acm.pdx.edu/ SUMMARY:Challenges in Developing the Portal Transportation Data Archive LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130209T001955Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130215T173000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130215T163000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130209T001955Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130213T193930Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250463600 DESCRIPTION:A high-level overview of the characteristics of Google's new web scripting language\, from the perspective of a student who learned t o use the language in under 12 hours. Does Dart have a chance to become a viable and heavily adopted alternative to JavaScript? The history\, ph ilosophy and intended purpose of the language will be discussed\, and co mparisons will be made to other languages and frameworks. \;\n \;\ nAbout the speaker: \;\n \;\nDevin Quirozoliver is a senior underg raduate student in the Computer Science program at Portland State Univer sity. His interests include languages\, user interface and wearable comp uting.\n\nTags: dart javascript\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/e vents/1250463600 URL:http://acm.pdx.edu/ SUMMARY:PSU Tech Talk: 12 Hours with Google Dart LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130214T062309Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130222T173000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130222T163000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130214T062309Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130214T062309Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250463646 DESCRIPTION:Hadoop is an important batch data processing framework in use by companies of \;\nall sizes. It has a very approachable architectu re and can be applied to a large \;\ngroup of modern computing proble ms. In addition\, the framework supports an \;\nimplementation of map reduce which allows users to run jobs on any size cluster \;\nto fit their data size. Come learn about the architecture of this framework\,&# 13\;\nmanagement of the cluster\, and how to develop mapreduce jobs. \;\n \;\nAbout the speaker: \;\n \;\nDan Colish is a Core Data Engineer at Urban Airship. He is also a maintainer and \;\nactive ope n source developer for Xapian and other smaller projects. He resides \;\nin Portland with his family and enjoys snowshoeing and hiking around Mt. Hood.\n\nTags: hadoop\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events /1250463646 URL:http://acm.pdx.edu/ SUMMARY:PSU Tech Talk: Hadoop Hears a Who LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130213T192641Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130301T173000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130301T163000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130213T192641Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130213T193722Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250463644 DESCRIPTION:Through the implementation of an honest-to-goodness Bayesian classifier\, we’ll tour the major topics of supervised machine learning: tokenization\, feature selection and vectorization\, model training and tuning\, and execution. Time permitting\, we’ll touch on other techniqu es and topics. \;\n \;\nAbout the speaker: \;\n \;\nJohn Mel esky’s been programming on the web since gopher was a legitimate competi tor. He is the team lead for the Analytics team at Janrain\, where he ge ts to get his hands covered in all sorts of interesting data.\n\nTags: m achine learning\, math\, bayesian classifier\, do-it-yourself\n\nImporte d from: http://calagator.org/events/1250463644 URL:http://acm.pdx.edu/ SUMMARY:PSU Tech Talk: Write your own Bayesian Classifier: An Introductio n to Machine Learning LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130213T193546Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130308T173000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130308T163000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130213T193546Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130213T193546Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250463645 DESCRIPTION:This is a high-level overview of the capabilities and uses of C# 4.5 and the .NET framework\, from a student\, for students. Topics c overed will include concurrency and multi-threading\, lambda expressions and anonymous functions\, LINQ\, a basic GUI demonstration\, regular ex pressions\, and more. Comparisons to C++ will be made as well. Some mat hematical models will be shown if time permits. \;\n \;\nAbout the speaker: \;\n \;\nSean Walsh (AKA Azadi) is a senior undergraduat e student in the Computer Science program at Portland State University. His interests include systems programming\, databases\, and machine lear ning.\n\nTags: .NET c#\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/125 0463645 URL:http://acm.pdx.edu/ SUMMARY:PSU Tech Talk: Overview of .NET C# 4.5 LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130326T172021Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130412T173000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130412T163000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130326T172021Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130326T172021Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250463872 DESCRIPTION:Over the years I've been on several different teams that have been formed around existing software projects. The original authors wer e no longer directly involved\, if they were anywhere to be found at all . How do you navigate the pitfalls and traps in existing software projec ts and come out the other side with the gold? What matters\, what doesn' t\, and how do you stay alive? \;\n \;\nAbout the speaker: \;\n \;\nAndrew Parker first started with computers on a Commodore 64 and has now been a professional software developer for over a decade. He ha s been self taught\, school taught\, and mentor taught by a range of ind ividuals and institutions around the world. He is passionate about TDD\, refactoring\, and pair programming. Andrew Parker is a software develop er at Puppet Labs.\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250463 872 URL:http://acm.pdx.edu/ SUMMARY:PSU Tech Talk: Indyandy Jones and The Project of Doom LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130326T173528Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130419T173000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130419T163000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130326T173528Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130326T173528Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250463873 DESCRIPTION:Clojure is a modern functional programming language. It's ec osystem is packed to the brim with tools that help you \;\nachieve mo re with less typing\, less moving parts\, and less (or no) mutable state . \;\n \;\nCome learn about functional programming\, tips to getti ng started and being effective with Clojure\, software transactional mem ory\, and persistent data structures. \;\nClojure is language built t o tackle the complexity of the systems we face today\, and this talk wil l take you on tour through \;\nits features\, opinions\, and approach . \;\n \;\nAbout the speaker: \;\n \;\nPaul deGrandis lives for magnificent engineering. Elegant\, well-founded\, useful solutions t o problems that say something about engineering's beauty. \;\nCurrent ly he is a scientist and co-founder at NDensity - an innovation lab. Pre viously he worked at Tutorspree (YC)\, PushButton Labs\, Etsy.com\, OurS helf (DreamIt)\, and SilverCloud Software as well as working in advanced research. He's also contributed\, time\, money\, and effort to Code for America\, PyPy\, and Clojure. \;\nHe is often speaking on Clojure\, distributed systems\, and dependable systems. \;\nhttp://www.pauldee. org/blog \;\nhttp://ndensity.com\n\nTags: clojure\n\nImported from: h ttp://calagator.org/events/1250463873 URL:http://acm.pdx.edu/ SUMMARY:PSU Tech Talk: More with less: getting started building better sy stems with Clojure LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130403T001815Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130503T173000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130503T163000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130403T001815Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130403T001815Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250463954 DESCRIPTION: AltOS — Building Amateur Rocketry Software \;\n Keith Packard \;\n Al tus Metrum \;\n keithp@keithp.com \;\n&# 13\;\n \;\nAmateur rocketry enthusiasts build rockets somewhere betwe en Estes and \;\nNASA sizes. Operating as sounding rockets\, fights r ange from 1000m to \;\nmore than 30km and are generally passively fin stabilized. Two of the \;\nsignificant challenges are deploying the recovery system components \;\n(generally parachutes) and providing t racking to locate the rocket after \;\nflight. Altus Metrum is a proj ect building hardware and software for \;\namateur rocketry\, and Alt OS is the suite of software running in the \;\nrocket avionics and on the ground to track and analyze the flight. \;\n \;\nThis talk wi ll discuss the unique system challenges presented by \;\nrocketry\, i ncluding high acceleration and speeds\, automatic control of \;\nexpl osives and other flammable materials and the wide range of technical \;\nskills of the participants. Included will be a presentation of the&# 13\;\nhardware components used in the system and how that has driven the \;\narchitecture of the AltOS flight software over four years of \;\ndevelopment. \;\n \;\nAbout the speaker: \;\n \;\nKeith Packard has been developing open source software since 1986\, focusing&# 13\;\non the X Window System since 1987\, designing and implementing lar ge parts of \;\nthe current implementation. He is currently a Princi pal Engineer with Intel's \;\nOpen Source Technology Center. Keith re ceived a Usenix Lifetime Achievement \;\naward in 1999 and sits on th e X.org foundation board. \;\n\n\nTags: rockets\n\nImported from: htt p://calagator.org/events/1250463954 URL:http://acm.pdx.edu/ SUMMARY:PSU Tech Talk: AltOS — Building Amateur Rocketry Software LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130408T040620Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130510T173000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130510T163000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130408T040620Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130408T040620Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250463980 DESCRIPTION:During this talk I'll discuss current trends in the software industry\, how database systems are affecting growth and high value skil l sets\, and where the action is likely in the coming years. We'll focu s on the same technical stack that has led to innovation and major produ cts such as Facebook\, Google Search\, speech recognition\, and context based advertising. \;\n \;\nAbout the speaker: \;\n \;\nThe data architect for Netmotion Wireless\, Inc.\, Jonathan Wiggs is an acc omplished software architect with significant experience in the fields o f big data\, Bayesian analytics\, enterprise architecture\, and cloud co mputing. Jonathan has helped launch start-up companies including Jott Ne tworks &\; RGB Labs\, and has led engineering and research groups at companies such as Microsoft and Nuance. He enjoys writing\, speaking\, s haring his experiences with his peers\, and giving back to the industry he has loved for more than twenty years. Jonathan lives in the country a nd spends his free time with his wife and several admirable dogs. Contac t Jonathan at jon_wiggs@yahoo.com.\n\nImported from: http://calagator.or g/events/1250463980 URL:http://acm.pdx.edu/ SUMMARY:PSU Tech Talk: The software industry\, big data\, and analytics. Why these might be the most marketable skills you can learn. LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130530T030627Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130531T170000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130531T160000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130530T030627Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130530T031019Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250464316 DESCRIPTION: \;\nBack in 2001\, researchers decided to try to use &quo t\;the other"\; processor in their PC (the graphics card) for comput ation. These early\, tedious efforts were promising and lead to a new type of computation called General Purpose GPU (GPGPU) Computing. NVIDI A vastly accelerated such efforts with the release of CUDA in 2007\, tha t provided a much simpler interface to programmers wanting to use the GP U for general computation. Today\, GPUs are being used to accelerate so me of the most powerful supercomputers in the world (see top500.org). In this talk I'll describe the ideas behind this very different kind of computing\, show some simple CUDA examples\, and mention the open source alternative to CUDA (OpenCL). I'll give a bit more detail on our newly acquired NVIDIA K20\, and briefly outline my GP-GPU Computing course fo r summer 2013. \;\n \;\nAbout the speaker \;\n----------------- ------- \;\n \;\nDr. Karavanic is an Associate Professor of Comput er Science at Portland State\, where she teaches courses in Operating Sy stems\, performance measurement and modeling\, and High Performance Comp uting. She was selected as an HPC Educator for the SC2012 Conference\, where she offered a full-day tutorial on CUDA to faculty from around the U.S. Dr. Karavanic came to PSU in 2000 from Madison\, Wisconsin\, wher e she earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science. \n\nTags: open so urce\, graphics\, OpenCL\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1 250464316 URL:http://acm.pdx.edu/ SUMMARY:PSU Tech Talk: Using Graphics Processors for everything but Grap hics LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T014406Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130607T170000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130607T160000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T014406Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T014406Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250464267 DESCRIPTION:As the language of web browsers\, JavaScript is pervasive in web application development. It also offers particular advantages in th at it is well-suited to functional programming and has the flexibility o f a dynamic language. This talk will give a taste of what JavaScript pr ogramming looks like\, some practices for getting the most out of the la nguage\, and some some common pitfalls. \;\n \;\nJesse Hallett is a Senior JavaScript Engineer at Jive Software. He is also an organizer of the Portland JavaScript Admirers\, a local user group. Jesse has giv en talks on JavaScript and other topics at various user groups and confe rences including Open Source Bridge\, NodePDX\, and Portland Code Camp.& #13\;\n \;\nThis event is open to the public. \;\n \;\nQuestio ns email acm_officers@cecs.pdx.edu\n\nTags: open source\, javascript\n\n Imported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250464267 URL:http://acm.pdx.edu/ SUMMARY:PSU Tech Talk: Introduction to JavaScript LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130923T232227Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131018T173000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131018T163000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130923T232227Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130923T232227Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250464933 DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, we will cover the basics of how to connect an Android device to a MySQL database. The technique used is adaptable to a ny database server (SQL Server\, PostGRES\, etc...) \;\n \;\nAs yo u probably know\, Android does not have a built in functionality to acce ss remote databases\, instead it uses SQLLite\, a flat file system. \;\n \;\nHowever\, using Java EE 7 and a simple PHP connectivity scri pt\, it is practically trivial to do the basic CRUD operations on a remo tely hosted database. \;\n \;\nBring a laptop with Java 7 and And roid SDK with Eclipse installed\, and get ready to code. Or just bring y ourself\, and a sheet will be passed to have the connection code EMAILED to you after the venue. \;\n \;\nAbout the speaker: \;\nSean Walsh (aka Azadi) is the current vice chair of the Portland State Chapte r of the ACM. Sean is currently finishing his Bachelor's of Computer Sci ence with a Mathematics Minor at Portland State University\, and has ind ustry experience with deploying mobile apps for Android. \n\nTags: acm\, portland state university\, java ee\, android development\, Tech Talks\ n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250464933 URL:http://www.acm.pdx.edu SUMMARY:ACM Tech Talk: Connecting Android to MySQL: An Interactive Tutori al LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131015T175423Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131025T173000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131025T163000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131015T175423Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131015T175423Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250465064 DESCRIPTION:Adam Lorts is a sales and marketing professional at Developme ntNow who focuses on business development in the digital space. \;\n& #13\;\nAdam's day job involves creating sales materials\, building agenc y partnerships\, coaching resellers\, handling direct inquiries and RFP' s as well as other strategic duties to aid the growth and success of Dev elopmentNow. \;\n \;\nSummary for talk: \;\nWe've had some new younger hires so there's a lot of things we've learned on turning highly intelligent\, educated CS grads into highly productive mobile developer s. This focuses on doing what it takes there.\n\nImported from: http://c alagator.org/events/1250465064 URL:http://www.acm.pdx.edu SUMMARY:ACM Tech Talk - So you want to be an app developer? LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140408T042304Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140418T153000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140418T133000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140408T042304Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140408T042352Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250465979 DESCRIPTION:##Intel is Seeking MS and PhD students for OS Software Engine er positions \;\n \;\nComputer Science | Computer Engineering | El ectrical Engineering | related disciplines \;\n \;\n**Join Daniel* * as he discusses this exciting opportunity: “I love software. I love to create. I love to innovate. I'm \;\nfascinated by system architectur e\, and emergent complexity-by-necessity. I've been drawn into OS level& #13\;\nwork due to its fundamental similarities with any satisfyingly co mplex architecture. It is amazing how many \;\npatterns are shared be tween video games\, robots\, and operating systems. All of which\, I lov e. I love working \;\nin the Windows Operating System (WOS) team at I ntel\, because of the intense technical effort required to be \;\nabl e to contribute in even the slightest manner. This effort\, once exerted \, begets unfathomable satisfaction.” \;\n \;\n**OS Software Engin eer Candidates must have**: Strong knowledge of computer/processor archi tecture\, OS \;\nfundamentals\, OS internals\, OS-level APIs\, Kernel debugger\, driver development\, system level development / \;\nproto type\, C/ASM programming\, data structures and algorithms. Expertise in core technologies such as \;\nplatform power mgmt\, low power IO\, se nsor architecture\, IO driver stacks\, and virtualization is highly desi red. \;\nQualifications include: Some experience with OS development. Experience developing and/or debugging \;\nsoftware for HW devices. Strong written and verbal communications skills a must. Testing experien ce a plus. \;\nApply for these positions today: intel.com/jobs/studen ts \;\n\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250465979 SUMMARY:Intel Graduate Technical Talk LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140321T201728Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140418T180000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140418T160000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140321T201728Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140321T201728Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250465897 DESCRIPTION:Andy Delcambre from Github Education will be talking about Gi thub and the technology behind it. \;\n \;\nThe ACM will be provid ing pizza. \n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250465897 SUMMARY:Github Education LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140430T100457Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140507T180000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140507T160000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140430T100457Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140502T234511Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250466096 DESCRIPTION:The field of web operations is changing quickly. Modern inter net companies are evolving\, and mastering availability and performance is no longer enough. Come and learn about the tools and methods Yelp use s to ship next-generation infrastructure at a breakneck pace\, all while providing rock-solid reliability and blazing speed for more than 120 mi llion users. \;\n \;\n__Pizza__ will be provided. Thank you __Yelp !__ \;\n \;\nACM @ PSU\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/even ts/1250466096 URL:http://acm.pdx.edu/event.php?event=47 SUMMARY:Into the Great Unknown: Modern Web Operations and Infrastructure at Yelp LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:5 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140509T230038Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140516T180000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140516T163000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140509T230038Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140509T230038Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250466188 DESCRIPTION:Git is the most popular source code management and version co ntrol system in the open source community. Its complexity and power make it the best choice for most projects\, while simultaneously giving it a daunting learning curve for newcomers. This talk will assume no backgro und knowledge of version control\, and will teach the basics of Git in o rder to give you an accurate mental model of what the tool doesv \;\n \;\n### Speaker \;\n \;\n__Emily Dunham__ is a sysadmin at the OSU Open Source Lab and founder of the DevOps Bootcamp open source trai ning program. \n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250466188 SUMMARY:Thinking in Git LOCATION:Portland State University FAB\, Room 86-09: 1900 SW Fourth Avenu e\, Portland Oregon 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR