<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Aww, shame that. We got to the lot by 5:55 and basically ran to MC. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The talk went long, 2.5 hours in the comfy room and apparently went on even longer over beers near by. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Very good talk, lots of extremely interesting history from the 70s and 80s especially, valuable coverage of open source software and hardware in Brasil. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">No chance to see the hardware platform though as Maddog seemed a bit reticent about having it in view.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Good input from the 2 guys from LPI who were present.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Most of the last 90 minutes was spent with back-and-forth banter about how to make money with FOSS and I am not sure that Maddog was able to convince anyone in the room that it is possible to make GOOD money on it, at least, not easily.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">For my part, my concerns were mostly about how to promote Linux-based distros to the masses and how to fight past the mis-perception that Linux is *only* for fan/adepts of CLI. Grassroot attempts seems to be the only useful answer from a couple of students and 1 seasoned IT guy -- social platforms, hitting up libraries, mebbe even do a song-and-dance routine complete with flashing lights and a couple of laptops running Linux just inside the entrances to the local libraries.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Lovely man, glad I went.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 6:13 PM, Chamunks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chamunks@gmail.com" target="_blank">chamunks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I was there but couldn't locate any reasonable parking.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 6:09 PM Ron Singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">Talk starts now...</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:46 PM Chamunks <<a href="mailto:chamunks@gmail.com" target="_blank">chamunks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>It seems to be pretty intermittent. Its sunny as all hell one minute then its a blizzard the next. <a href="https://transfer.sh/tNeVi/cham-screenshot.png" target="_blank">https://transfer.sh/tNeVi/<wbr>cham-screenshot.png</a> according to this radar screenshot it should likely not be consistent all day so whatever snow we do get should only last a few minutes at a time.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:20 PM Ron Singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">My buddy, Paul_K and I are going, the snow is coming down real hard by my hovel, but not enough to be a problem.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-2230113402046785060m_-2377468309604027053m_5812355283492180202m_-1817549052616070655gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br><br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Chamunks <span><<a href="mailto:chamunks@gmail.com" target="_blank">chamunks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Who's going tonight? I'm contemplating going.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 5:23 PM Ron Singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Thanks Paul, this sounds extremely interesting, my buddy Paul_K and I are definitely going. <br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-2230113402046785060m_-2377468309604027053m_5812355283492180202m_-1817549052616070655m_2807893986141212534m_-8553543343860585295gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br><br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <span><<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
FYI, maddog is also holding a session on Tuesday at 6pm, in the same<br>
place. I think this discussion will be less structured than the other<br>
one was.<br>
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<a href="http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_Comfy-2018-03-13-6:00pm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/<wbr>events/MC_Comfy-2018-03-13-6:<wbr>00pm</a><br>
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On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 05:44:33PM -0500, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:<br>
> I saw a poster for the Jon "maddog" Hall talk. It will be held Monday,<br>
> March 12 at 6pm.<br>
><br>
> The location is the third floor of the Math and Computer building, in<br>
> the "comfy lounge". If you are looking on a map of the floor, the room<br>
> number is 3001, but everybody calls it the Comfy Lounge. It is beside<br>
> the Coffee and Doughnut shop.<br>
><br>
> Here is the talk abstract, from<br>
> <a href="http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_Comfy-2018-03-12-6:00pm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/<wbr>events/MC_Comfy-2018-03-12-6:<wbr>00pm</a><br>
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> Abstract: Many things have changed since the early days of programming, but many programs are written as if they were for the machines of the 20th century which had small memories, no cache, single core CPUs, small address spaces. Even the definition of "performance" has changed. This talk will investigate some of these issues and hopefully lead people to better programming.<br>
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