Past Meetings

It's a festival of graphics presentations this month!

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

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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.

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The host for this meeting was rbclemen.

This meeting will be held at The Working Centre in Kitchener, Ontario. Our meetings are free and open to those with an interest in Linux.Doors open at 6pm for casual conversation and perhaps a Linux-related video.We have another interesting Open Source project presentation this month. Make sure you arrive early to get a seat. The formal presentation will begin at 7:00pm.
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By popular demand, and no small amount of begging, Robin has agreed to reprise his MythTV presentation. We're told the the new MythTV box includes more goodies now, so prepare to have serious geek-envy.

This meeting will be held at The Working Centre in Kitchener, Ontario. Our meetings are free and open to those with an interest in Linux.Doors open at 6pm for casual conversation and perhaps a Linux-related video.We have another interesting Open Source project presentation this month. Make sure you arrive early to get a seat. As host, I'll be entertaining you with my singing and dancing skills, (Okay, perhaps there won't be any singing and dancing, I'm adding this for Adam and I have an unusual sense of humour --richard) but the main focus of the evening will be a presentation by William Park, from the Toronto Linux User Group. His Open Source project is called ...
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William will demonstrate and discuss his open source project BASH-diff. It is a patch to the bash-3.0 shell incorporating many useful features from Awk, Python, Zsh, Ksh, and others. This presentation will be of great interest to programmers and shell / script fans alike!

Bash.Diff is a patch against Bash shell. In the main core, it adds the following syntax: {a..b}; ${var|...}; then-else-fi to for/while/until/case statements; try-block with string exception;<&lt+; and, <<<<.

As builtin, it adds the following: sscanf(3), <string.h>, <ctype.h> wrappers; array, regex(3), stack, queue operations; GDBM, SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL database interfaces; HTML template engine (BASP); Expat XML parser interface; x-y char plot; DOS, CSV, Awk support; Libwebserver interface; RPN calculator with <math.h> functions; and, GTK+2 interface for GUI dialog. Detailed presentation material will be added after the presentation.http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff