[Klug-general] Ashford Meeting Minutes

[rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk]

Thoroughly enjoyed the meeting and took a lot away from it . Liked the look of Glade and will certainly have a play with that Unfortunately in my struggle to get the screen rolled up (a problem I thought I had cured). I left things behind as well. My clipboard and, to my shame, my empty sandwich wrapper and mineral water. Apologies to whoever cleaned up for my thoughtlessness.
                    Regards Rich




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From: spode at thinkabouttech.com

Date: 25/07/2009 16:35 

To: "Kent Linux User Group - General Topics"<kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>

Subj: [Klug-general] Ashford Meeting Minutes



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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