[Klug-general] Ashford Meeting Minutes

[Andrew Spode Miller]

Hello,

Today's meeting was exceptional, partly due to Colin slacking off. We had a
great turn out of 16 people - Karl, Daniel, Nick, Stuart, Blake, Nathan,
Tom, Allan, Jimmy, George,James, Richard, Julia, Mike, Me, and Dan. It was
the first meeting for Jimmy Blake, having recently moved up from Brighton.

Mike Evans started with a talk "From Thought to Tarball". This started out
with a very basic "Hello World!!!" C application and explained in several
stages all the way through to a GTK GUI application. A full description of
the compiling processes was shown, including using "Make" instead of
directly calling the compiler, Autotools for the cross-distribution
compilation and eventually turning this into a Tarball for distribution.

A full explanation of headers, libraries, includes and other useful
information was imparted. After a short break he went on to discuss using
Glade 2 to create a GUI C program and how simple this was. Finally, he
showed us around the Eclipse IDE and how you could move on further.
Certainly it was a very educational talk that equipped you with enough
knowledge to go home and try it for yourself, or to learn more about
compiling software from source. Interestingly, only one person in the room
had never compiled from source.

Julia then went on to do a talk on the "Use and Abuse of SSH".  She talked
about port forwarding, SOCKS proxies and X11 forwarding, demonstrating all
of this. In one scenario she was connected across three different servers,
using port forwarding (because she can), or streaming an MP3 file to stdout
across SSH to a local MP3 player. A large discussion on security and RSA
keys was had amongst the group.

I'd like to think everyone took something away from both talks and I'd like
to thank them both for doing so. Thanks also go the Ashford Youth Theatre
for once again providing us with a venue. When finished, we went to
wetherspoons for a pub lunch in the sun.

Of note, Karl wore a T-Shirt for me on demand and Julia made an awful joke
involving a spider, a projector and bugs in Mike's coding. Both offences
will be noted and duly punished.

Hope to see you all at the next meeting :)

Spode

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