All Acadiana residents with an interest in open source technologies are invited to attend the January 2009 meeting of the Acadiana Open Source Group on Thursday January 29 at 6:30 p.m.
The meeting will tentatively be held in the Advanced Computer Technology and Research building on UL campus thanks to arrangements made by faculty of the Computer Science Department for us to use their facilities. Signs will be posted around the building on the day of the meeting to direct attendees. Parking is available in Zone 13. See this map for locations of the parking lot and the ACTR building.
Keith Thibodeaux, CIO for Lafayette Consolidated Government, will be leading an open forum on challenges and opportunities involved in the use of open source software in government organizations. People with related experience or views are encouraged to attend and participate.
Please remember to help to spread the word about the meeting to family, friends, classmates, and colleagues so we can get a good turnout!
Thanks to all who attended the December 2008 meeting of the Acadiana Open Source Group. The presentation done by Frank Ducrest and his CMPS 497 students was well attended and provoked a good amount of discussion about the software development approaches involved in the project and its currently sported feature set. Thanks to UL Computer Science Department for continuing to host our meetings.
Announcements:
- A seminar entitled Do It With Drupal will be held December 10-12 in the Marriot Hotel in New Orleans. Seats are limited, so register soon if you plan to attend.
- The annual php|tek conference will be held May 19-22 in Chicago, IL. Its Call for Papers is open until December 15th.
- DrupalCon 2009 will be held in Washington, DC on March 4-7. Tickets are being sold in blocks with the earlier blocks having cheaper rates, so register early if you plan to attend.
- WordCamp New Orleans 2009 has been announced. WordCamp is a class of conferences aimed at developers, users, and enthusiasts of the open source publishing platform WordPress. No date has been set yet for WordCamp New Orleans, but more details will be syndicated here as they become available.
- The Acadiana Open Source Group is always looking for speakers to present at meetings, sponsorship of refreshments or door prizes, and information about upcoming open source-related events (especially those local to the state or surrounding states). Please contact Matthew Turland if you can provide any of these.
All Acadiana residents with an interest in open source technologies are invited to attend the December 2008 meeting of the Acadiana Open Source Group on Thursday, December 4 at 6:30 p.m. Lack of a November meeting and the unusual timing of the December meeting are due to the holidays.
The meeting will be held in the Advanced Computer Technology and Research building on UL campus thanks to arrangements made by faculty of the Computer Science Department for us to use their facilities. Signs will be posted around the building on the day of the meeting to direct attendees. Parking is available in Zone 13. See this map for locations of the parking lot and the ACTR building.
Frank Ducrest and some of his CMPS 497 students will be presenting an alpha version of the virtual classroom software they have developed and plan to release as open source software. They will also be looking to recruit local PHP talent to help with integrating their software with Moodle.
Please remember to help to spread the word about the meeting to family, friends, classmates, and colleagues so we can get a good turnout! Also, if you're on Facebook, please RSVP via the Facebook event for the meeting.
Thanks to all who attended the October 2008 meeting of the Acadiana Open Source Group. The joint presentation done by Corey Bordelon, Daniel Kedinger, and Ron Domingue on content management systems, particularly Wordpress and Drupal, was very well-received and spurred interesting discussions on content management systems in general, both open source and proprietary. Thanks to UL Computer Science Department for continuing to host our meetings.
Announcements:
- WUS (World's Ugliest Supercomputer) is a prospective project to build a Beowulf cluster from recycled hardware. If interested, contact Paul Darby.
- The Covcell project aims to create partnerships between children in Acadiana schools and in sister city schools in other parts of the world using Moodle. If interested, contact David Goodwyn.
- CAPE is a project organized by a group of UL students with the intent of launching a satellite running Linux into space. If interested, contact Matthew Triche.
- This year's ApacheCon will be held at the Sheraton New Orleans November 3-7. Register soon if you plan to attend.
- A combined php|works / PyWorks 2008 Conference will be held November 12-14 in Atlanta, GA and its schedule has been posted.
- A seminar entitled Do It With Drupal will be held December 10-12 in the Marriot Hotel in New Orleans. Early bird registration ends November 1 and seats are limited, so register soon if you plan to attend.
- WordCamp New Orleans 2009 has been announced. WordCamp is a class of conferences aimed at developers, users, and enthusiasts of the open source publishing platform WordPress. No date has been set yet for WordCamp New Orleans, but more details will be syndicated here as they become available.
- The Acadiana Open Source Group is always looking for sponsorship of refreshments or door prizes. Please contact Matthew Turland if your company would be interested.
All Acadiana residents with an interest in open source technologies are invited to attend the October 2008 meeting of the Acadiana Open Source Group on Thursday, October 30 at 6:30 p.m.
The meeting will be held in room 101 of the Advanced Computer Technology and Research building on UL campus thanks to arrangements made by faculty of the Computer Science Department for us to use their facilities. Signs will be posted around the building on the day of the meeting to direct attendees. Parking is available in Zone 13. See this map for locations of the parking lot and the ACTR building.
Corey Bordelon and Daniel Kedinger will be presenting a talk entitled "CMS '08" to compare and contrast the content management systems Drupal and Wordpress. Anyone with views on other content management systems such as Joomla are invited to come and share their experiences.
Please remember to help to spread the word about the meeting to family, friends, classmates, and colleagues so we can get a good turnout!