Past Meetings

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, 05 February 2007

Presented
Nominee: CLUE - Canadian Association for Open Source
Date: 
Monday, 5 February 2007
Presentation Topic

Understanding the X window system

Chris Frey will demonstrate and discuss the X Window System from a user's point of view, focusing on the common tools that come with X, regardless of which desktop system you choose to use. The following topics are planned:

* X configuration overview
* The X startup process
* Connecting to your X server
* X managers
o The display manager
o The window manager
o The session manager
* Cut and paste
o What's the difference between the current selection, cut buffer, and clipboard?
* X toys

Presented
Meeting Agenda: KWLUG Meeting: Monday, 05 February 2007
Location: 
43 Queen St S - The Working Centre
Emcee: 
rbclemen

KWLUG Meeting: 08 January 2007

Date: 
Monday, 8 January 2007
Presentation Topic

VoIP for the SOHO

This introduction to VoIP is aimed at small office / home office users. John will cover hardware, software and configuration issues at the introductory level. The interested attendee will learn what options they have, and what steps to take to implement their own VoIP system. Expect to hear about VoIP phones, analog telephone adapters, telephony cards, Asterisk, TrixBox, and VoIP providers.

Presented
Meeting Agenda: KWLUG Meeting: 08 January 2007
Location: 
43 Queen St S - The Working Centre
Emcee: 
richard

KWLUG meeting: Monday, 04 December 2006

Our guest presenter, Glenn is from Hamilton LUG.

Date: 
Monday, 4 December 2006
Presentation Topic

Top Ten Linux command line

We have another interesting Linux presentation this month. Our guest presenter, Glenn, will amaze and entertain you with his mastery of the Linux command line.
Make sure you arrive early to get a seat.

Presented
Meeting Agenda: KWLUG meeting: Monday, 04 December 2006
Location: 
43 Queen St S - The Working Centre
Emcee: 
richard

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, 06 November 2006

It's a festival of graphics presentations this month!

Date: 
Monday, 6 November 2006
Presentation Topic

blender 3D modelling and animation

Chris (et fil) will demonstrate the Blender 3D modelling package and some of the animated results of Blender.

Presented
Meeting Agenda: KWLUG Meeting: Monday, 06 November 2006
Presentation Topic

Photomanipulation with The GIMP

In Part One Richard will discuss and demonstrate a few of the many capabilities of the GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Programs). We'll look at

  • layers,
  • contrast enhancement,
  • red-eye reduction
  • and expensive wedding photo cliches.

In Part Two we delve deeper into the GIMP and look at other photo-manipulation techniques.

  • Fun with banknotes.
  • Building an alibi: add yourself to a photo.
  • On-line dating or how to put your face on the body of a celebrity.
Topic Status: 
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Presented
Meeting Agenda: KWLUG Meeting: Monday, 06 November 2006
Location: 
43 Queen St S - The Working Centre
Emcee: 
rbclemen
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