[Klug-general] Ashford Meeting Minutes

[Andrew Spode Miller]

Not a problem Rich - they were binned with the general clear up :) Not sure
about a clipboard though!

Spode


On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 9:30 PM, rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk <
rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>  ----Original Message----
> 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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