Presentations

This section of the LUGOD site contains copies of presentation slides and handouts created by people who have spoken at our meetings, as well as slides and handouts from Linux-related talks that LUGOD members have made during presentations at other events.

2017

• August 21 — Observing the Night Sky with Free Open-Source Software (Celestia) (68KB PDF)
  Kenneth Lyons
• May 15 — DockerCon 17 Recap (PDF)
  Stephen Matthew Helms
• April 17 — Back to the Terminal
  Bill Kendrick
• March 20 — Kodi media player (formerly XBMC) (how-to-install PDF)
  Ronile Lambert
• January 16 — Taming a Dinosaur with JavaScript and Docker (4.5MB PDF)
  Dennis Stevense, Streamline (a division of Digital Deployment)

2016

• October 17 — Surveillance: self-defense and how you can push back (2.9MB PDF)
  Shahid Buttar (Director of Grassroots Advocacy), Amul Kalia (Intake Coordinator), and Camille Ochoa (Coordinator, Grassroots Advocacy), Electronic Frontier Fondation
• June 20 — Inkscape (4.6MB PDF)
  Michele Tobias, Tobias Research
• May 16 — Docker (5.1MB PDF)
  Karen Yin-Yee Ng
• April 18 — Configuration Management with Puppet: Present and Future (6.6MB PDF)
  Greg Larkin, Puppet Labs
• March 21 — APPA, a Linux-based 'FIRST Robotics Competition' Robot (778KB PDF)
  Wesley Aptekar-Cassels, Citrus Circuits (FRC Team 1678)

2015

• August 17 — The Dark Art of Container Monitoring (166KB PDF)
  Gianluca Borello, Sr. Engineer, SysDig
• July 20 — Some MySQL tricks -- an open discussion (739KB PDF)
  Bill Kendrick, CTO, Smashwords, Inc.
• May 18 — Systemd: The Modern Linux init System You Will Learn to Love (2.4MB PDF)
  Alison Chaiken, Mentor Graphics (Embedded Software Division)
• April 20 — KDE Connect (1.1MB PDF)
  Bill Kendrick
• January 19 — Purely Functional Package Management with Nix (789KB PDF)
  Eric Rasmussen, Lead software developer, NewCars.com/Cars.com

2014

• December 15 — Tux Paint 2014 (214KB PDF)
  Bill Kendrick
• October 20 — Web Application Hacking: How to Make and Break Security on the Web (140k PDF)
  Wesley Aptekar-Cassels
• September 15 — Scratch: programming for children and other not-yet-programmers (1.4MB PDF)
  Bill Kendrick
• August 18 — A professional photographer's view of Linux (115KB PDF)
  Wes Hardaker, Captured on Earth Photography
• February 17 — "Parallel Processing in R" (1MB PDF)
  Dr. Norm Matloff, Computer Science department, UC Davis

2013

• December 16 — "OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) and Sugar: Collaborative, Joyful, an Self-empowered Learning" (28MB PDF)
  Professor Sameer Verma, Information Systems, San Francisco State University
• August 19 — Vintage Computers and Linux roundtable
  Bill Kendrick: Atari 8-bits & Linux: Emulating and enhancing real Atari 8-bit hardware using Linux (1.9MB PDF)
• April 15 — Introduction to CrunchBang Linux: The Best Distro You*ve Never Heard (770KB ODP)
  Larry Cafiero
• March 18 — Making predictions using Linux and R (43KB PDF)
  Tim Riley, Appahost

2012

• December 17 — JavaFX on Raspberry Pi (8.5MB PPTX)
  Stephen Chin, Lead Developer, WidgetFX
• September 17 — Riak open source distributed NoSQL database (1.6MB PDF)
  Dan Reverri, Basho Technologies, Inc.
• June 16 — Wikimedia and Wikipedia (1.4MB PDF)
  Trevor Parscal and Roan Kattouw, Wikimedia Foundation
• March 19 — Attaining Critical Mass With Java EE (TXT)
  Brian Lavender
• February 20 — Intro to Neogeography - Armchair map making (Scribd slides)
  Alex Mandel

2011

• December 19 — How to provide non-technical users with dual-stack IPv6+IPv4 connectivity (472KB PDF)
  Graham Freeman
• November 21 — Web Applications with Pyramid
  Eric Rasmussen
• October 17 — Hacking Space Exploration and Science (42MB PDF)
  Ariel Waldman, Founder, Spacehack.org
• September 19 — Full Scale Flight Simulators (14MB ODP)
  John Wojnaroski, Chief Engineer at LFS Technologies, Inc.
• July 18 — Appaserver (1.5MB PPT)
  Tim Riley, Appahost
• May 16 — Django web framework
  Joel Bremson, Graduate Student Researcher, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis
• April 18 — MythTV
  Wes Hardaker
• March 31 — MyForth-Arduino and Hibernate ORM for Java
  Charles Shattuck and Brian Lavender
• February 21 — Introduction to IPv6 Socket Programming
  Owen DeLong, IPv6 Evangelist, Hurricane Electric

2010

• December 20 — 3D Display, 3D Interaction, 3D Capture, and Off-Label Uses of Commodity Hardware (or: How to Become an Internet Celebrity in Three Easy Steps)
  Oliver Kreylos, Project Scientist, Department of Geology, UC Davis
• November 15 — GNU Wget
  Micah Cowan
• September 20 — "Haiku" operating system (274KB PDF)
  Scott McCreary and Urias McCullough
• July 19 — Eventlet networking library for Python (276KB PDF)
  Amrboff Linden, Linden Lab
• March 15 — Revision Control Roundtable
  Various LUGOD members
• February 15 — Amazon Web Services
  Jinesh Varia, Amazon.com
• February 15 — Mini-presentation: Nokia N900 Linux-based smartphone
  Wes Hardaker
• January 18 — Liferay Portal and Liferay Social Office
  Wilson Man, Senior Software Engineer

2009

• September 21 — BerkeleyTIP (596KB PDF)
  john_re
• August 17 — GP2X Linux-based handheld game system (847KB PDF)
  Bill Kendrick
• July 20 — click2try (1.3MB PDF)
  Mark Smallwood, Marketing Communications Manager
• June 15 ‐ Cernio Technology Cooperative (2.0MB PDF)
  Graham Freeman, Founder & General Manager
• May 18 — Oracle Linux Engineering Update (1.9MB PDF)
  Todd Trichler, Oracle Technology Network.
• April 20 — Alice: beginners programming environment
  Cameron Tully-Smith.
• March 16 — CMake
  Douglas Barbieri, Made to Order Software.
• January 19 — Parrot Virtual Machine for Dynamic Languages (112KB PDF)
  Allison Randal, Parrot.

2008

• December 15 — Cloud Computing and Hosting (2.9MB PowerPoint PPT)
  Paul Lancaster, GoGrid.
• November 11 — Open Source Business Model (11MB OpenOffice.org Impress ODP)
  Cathy Malmrose, CEO, ZaReason
• October 20 — code_swarm (420KB PDF)
  Michael Ogawa, Visualization and Interface Design Innovation Group, UC Davis
• September 15 — libcrtxy (237KB PDF)
  Bill Kendrick
• August 18 — Siafoo (770KB PDF)
  David Isaacson and Stou Sandalski
• July 21 — Linux on Laptops Roundtable
  Bill Kendrick, Scott Miller, Brian Lavender, Tony Cratz, Bill Alexander
• June 16 — OpenSSL (Handout)
  Brian Lavender
• May 16 - The OpenStreetMap Project (21MB PDF)
  Steve Coast, Founder, OpenStreetMap
• April 21 — CTL (800KB PDF)
  Alex Honor, ControlTier
• February 18 — GPSr Waypoint Management Linux Tools and Geocaching (3.5MB PDF)
  Wes Hardaker, GeoQO project
• January 21 — The Digital Tipping Point (It's About You: LUGs)
  Christian Einfeldt, Producer

2007

• December 17 — Tux Paint "Magic" Plug-in API (730KB PDF)
  Bill Kendrick, New Breed Software
• November 19 — Adobe Flex and ActionScript on Linux (2.1MB .tar.gz archive)
  Seth Duffey, WeBot.com
• October 15 — Google Summer of Code (Notes by a LUGOD member)
  Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source Program Manager, Google, Inc.
• August 20 — Improving Security through Virtualization (809KB PDF)
  Bill Broadley, Computational Science and Engineering, UC Davis
• July 16 — Post-Processing High Dynamic Range (HDR) Panoramas Using Open Source Tools
  Steve Wormley
• June 18 — Tux Paint, Again
  Bill Kendrick, New Breed Software
• May 21 — Oracle's Linux Engineering Update
  Sunil Mushran, Senior Development Manager, Oracle Linux Engineering Group & Todd Trichler, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle Technology Network

2006

• November 20 — IPv6 under Linux (370KB PDF)
  Nick Shmalenberger
• October 16 - Postfix (221KB PDF)
  Rod Roark, Sunset Systems
• August 21 - GPS/Cartography under Linux (7MB PDF)
  Dylan Beaudette
• April 17 — gtkmm (GTK minus minus)
  R. Douglas Barbieri
• March 20 — DVD Authoring with Linux
  Kyle Rankin
• February 20 — Drupal
  Steven Peck
• Janaury 16 — Linux Microcontrollers
  Adam Yergovich, JK Micro

2005

• December 19 — Tux Paint, Technically
  Bill Kendrick, New Breed Software
• August 15 — Linux on commodity network hardware
  Josh Parsons
• July 18 — Linux and OTA HDTV
  Steve Wormley
• July 5 — Wine and Samba Integration Possibilities
  Juan Lang
• June 7 — Blogging & Journaling (OpenOffice.org Impress presentation)
  Brad Whitaker, LiveJournal.com & Frank Precissi, DeadJournal.com
• May 3 — Linux Clusters
  A discussion of distributed computing using Linux clusters.
  Donald Becker, CTO of Penguin Computing
• April 5 — IP Video and Multicast Streaming (PDF)
  Streaming video on the Internet using Linux.
  Ted Deppner
• March 21 — A Review of UNIX File Systems (PDF)
  Various file systems available for UNIX and Linux.
  Valerie Henson, IBM
• March 1 — Revision Control Systems
  Keeping track of changes in source code and other kinds of documents using a revision control system.
  Ken Bloom
• January 4 — Knoppix
  What you can do with the Debian Linux-based Knoppix bootable 'live CD.'
  Kyle Rankin

2004

• November 15 — The History of SourceForge.net (PDF)
  The SourceForge.net Open Source software development site and software repository.
  Patrick McGovern, Director, SourceForge.net
• September 20 — K12LTSP (PDF)
  Linux-based thin client systems designed for K-12 schools.
  Steve Hargadon, Hargadon Computers
• September 7 — Cascading Style Sheets
  Using CSS to design the visual style of a website.
  Seth Duffey, Sacramento ColdFusion Users Group
• July 19 — Kommander 101
  A KDE-based tool for designing and executing graphical dialogs.
  Robert Nickel
• July 6 — Tools for SOA Web Programs -- using Dynamic Objects (PDF)
  Sheng-Chuan Wu and Charley Cox, Franz, Inc.
• May 17 — Oracle Cluster File System on Linux v. 2 (OpenOffice.org Impress and PDF)
  A distributed filesystem from Oracle.
  Kurt Hackel, Senior Software Developer, Oracle Corporation
• April 19 — Penguins Can Fly! - SGI's Altix Servers (PDF)
  Steve Caruso, Senior High Performance Computing Engineer, Silicon Graphics, Inc.
• April 6 — KDE 3.2: A User's Perspective
  The new KDE 3.2 Linux desktop and applications.
  Bill Kendrick
• March 15 — Linux Traffic Shaping with netfilter and iproute2
  Controlling incoming and outbound network traffic.
  Gabe Rosa
• March 2 — Autoconf and Automake
  Using 'autotools' to maintain build scripts in a development environment.
  Mark K. Kim
• February 3 — Digital Video and Linux (OpenOffice.org Impress)
  Capturing and editing divital video, and authoring video DVDs under Linux.
  Doug Barbieri

2003

• December 11 — Linux and Open Source
  An overview of Linux and Open Source for average computer users.
  Bill Kendrick (for Mission Oaks Computer Club, Sacramento)
• December 5 — Open Source Solutions for Library Needs (PDF)
  An overview of Open Source suitable for Libraries.
  Richard S. Crawford (for School of Library and Information Sciences, San Jose State University)
• December 2 — Kid's Software for Linux
  An overview of educational and gaming software for children that's available for Linux.
  Bill Kendrick, New Breed Software
• November 17 — Appaserver (PDF)
  Tim Riley, Appahost.com
• October 20 — Erasing the Digital Divide - The Simputer Portable Computer (OpenOffice.org Impress)
  A low-cost Linux-based handheld computer designed for the developing world.
  Edward Cherlin, Encore Technologies
• October 7 — AMD64 and Linux: The platform of choice (PDF)
  An overview of the 64-bit "AMD64" architecture.
  Marc Miller, Strategic Alliance Manager, AMD
• September 15 — Über TiVo - Hacking the TiVO PVR
  Hardware and software hacks for the Linux-based TiVo video recorder.
  Ryan Castelluci
• September 11 — Basic Video Game Development
  An overview of game design and short SDL library tutorial.
  Bill Kendrick (for Sonoma State University)
• July 1 — BlueCat Linux (PowerPoint)
  The BlueCat Linux platform for embedded systems.
  Vinh Du, Vik Sohal, LynuxWorks
• June 16 - NVidia's Cg Shader Language (Wayback machine archive of external link)
  Programming NVidia's graphics card shaders.
  Gabe Rosa
• June 11 — The Gimp (PDF)
  An overview of The Gimp graphics and photo manipulation tool.
  Bill Kendrick (for SacLUG)
• June 4 — Sharp Zaurus PDA (OpenOffice.org Impress)
  The Linux-based Zaurus handheld computer.
  Bill Kendrick (for SVLUG)
• June 3 — ZIP4x4 IP Phone (PowerPoint)
  A Linux-powered telephone that uses voice over IP (VoIP).
  Patrick Ferriter, Zultys Technologies
• May 6 — IBM and Linux - The Big Blue Penguin (PDF)
  A discussion of IBM's involvement with, and use of, Linux and Open Source.
  Roy Greenwood, IBM's Linux Impact Team
• April 21 — Oracle Clustering File System
  A distributed filesystem from Oracle.
  Mark Fasheh, Todd Trichler, Oracle's Linux Development Team
• March 17 — The K Desktop Environment (KPresenter)
  An overview of the KDE desktop environment for Linux.
  Ronald Krause, Charles Samuels, The KDE Team
• March 4 — Getting Involved with Mozilla (Wayback machine archive of external link)
  How the Open Source Mozilla web browser's development process works, and how to get involved.
  Asa Dotzler, Netscape Communications
• February 17 — 802.11b Basics
  The basics of wireless networking, and using it under Linux.
  Ryan Castelluci
• February 4 - Anticircumvention Provisions of the DMCA (Magic Point presentation)
  A discussion of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
  Don Marti, Linux Journal magazine
• January 7 - Linux for the PlayStation 2 (PowerPoint)
  The Linux environment created by Sony for homebrew development on their PlayStation 2 home video game console.
  Adam Bertsch, Sony Computer Entertainment, America

2002

• November 13 - Linux for the Home and Small Business Network
  A discussion of Linux and a variety of Open Source software suitable for home and small business users.
  Rod Roark, Richard Harke, Rusty Minden, Bill Alexander (DCN Class)
• October 21 — Rapid GUI Development with Glade (Wayback machine archive of external link)
  Developing graphical user interfaces for GTK+ applications using the Glade graphical design tool.
  Dave Peticolas
• October 1 — CrossOver Office and CrossOver Plugin
  Running Windows applications on Linux using the CrossOver products.
  Francois Gouget, CodeWeavers
• August 6 — Networking Linux in a Heterogenous Environment
  Integrating Linux in a network alongside Windows, Mac and other platforms.
  Stephen Helms
• July 31 — The GIMP
  An overview of The Gimp graphics and photo manipulation tool.
  Bill Kendrick (for Sac. PC User Group Web SIG)
• July 2 — PHP (Wayback machine archive of external link)
  The PHP web scripting language.
  Rasmus Lerdorf
• May 22 — Linux for the Office
  An over view of Linux and Open Source software for small offices.
  Rod Roark, Tom Burnett, Richard Crawford, Bill Kendrick (DCN Class)
• May 7 — FlightGear and OpenGC
  Flight and 'glass cockpit' simulation software under Linux.
  Andy Ross, Jim Brennan, John Wojnaroski
• April 2 — SETI@home (PowerPoint)
  Searching radio telescope data for extraterrestrial intelligence by distributedly utilizing unused CPU power on home users' computers.
  Dr. David P. Anderson, SETI@home Director, UC Berkeley
• March 18 — The Anatomy of ALICE (PowerPoint)
  The Artificial Linguistic Internet Chat Entity, an Open Source artificial intelligence project.
  Dr. Richard S. Wallace, ALICE AI Foundation
• March 5 — Building an Embedded Linux Prototype (PDF)
  Chuck Groom, Devin Carraway, Blue Mug, Inc.
• February 18 — µClinux (Archived at Wayback Machine)
  Rob Wehrli, Arizona Cooperative Power and Larry Gagliani, Hitachi

2001

• December 17 — Sharp Zaurus Linux/Java PDA
  The Linux-based Zaurus handheld computer.
  Bill Kendrick
• November 19 — devfs (.tar.bz2 archive)
  Linux's new device filesystem.
  Pete Salzman
• September 4 — The Gimp, Part 2: Advanced
  An advanced discussion of The Gimp graphics and photo manipulation tool.
  Bill Kendrick
• August 20 — The Gimp, Part 1: Basics (GZipped StarOffice presentation)
  An overview of The Gimp graphics and photo manipulation tool.
  Bill Kendrick
• August 7 — Variable Arguments in C
  Creating functions in C which can accept a variable number of arguments (e.g., printf() and scanf()).
  Pete Salzman
• May 1 — Vovida, Open Source Voice Over IP
  Stephen Anderson, Cheung Tam, Cisco Systems / Vovida
• April 16 — Blender Intro
  An introduction to the Blender 3D graphics design environment.
  Mark K. Kim
• April 3 — FLTK: Fast/Light Toolkit (Wayback machine archive of external link)
  Developing graphical applications in C++ using the FLTK library.
  Gabriel Rosa
• March 19 — Agenda VR3 Linux-based PDA
  The Linux-based Agenda handheld computer.
  Bill Kendrick
• March 6 — Building the Linux Kernel (JPEG)
  An overview of configuring and compiling the Linux kernel from source.
  Chuck Polisher
• February 6 - Trust and Security (PostScript)
  Dr. Matt Bishop

2000

• December 18 - Using DVDs on the Linux Platform (Wayback machine archive of external link)
  Pete Salzman
• October 3 — Parallel Programming with MPICH
  Using a portable implementation of MPI (message passing interface) to create applications that run in parellel on multiple CPUs or in a cluster.
  Nicole Carlson
• September 18 — Vgetty
  Using a modem and a Linux computer as a telephone answering machine or voicemail system.
  Mark K. Kim
• August 1 — cgi-util
  Creating Common Gateway Interface applications for websites using C and the cgi-util library.
  Bill Kendrick
• July 17 — GTK+
  Developing graphical applications in C using the GTK+ library.
  Drew Parsons
• May 15 — Linux for Scientific Computing (PDF)
  Bill Saphir
• May 2 — OpenSSH, International Kernel, Steganographic Filesystem
  Securely connecting to remote computers using SSH, applying the "International Kernel Patch" to add strong cryptography to the Linux kernel, and encrypting data on a hard disk using StegFS.
  Henry House
• April 17 — PGP
  Encrypting and digitally signing e-mail and files using Pretty Good Privacy.
  Drew Parsons
• April 4, 2000 — Kernel Compiling (Wayback machine archive of external link)
  An overview of configuring and compiling the Linux kernel from source.
  Pete Salzman
• March 20 — Linux/PPC
  Running Linux on PowerPC hardware, such as Apple Macs.
  Henry House
• January 18 - High Availability (Wayback machine archive of external link)
  Simon Horman
• January 3 — SDL Programming, Part II
  Developing games and multimedia applications in C using the Simple DirectMedia Layer library. (Part 2)
  Bill Kendrick

1999

• December 21 — SDL Programming, Part I
  Developing games and multimedia applications in C using the Simple DirectMedia Layer library. (Part 1)
  Bill Kendrick
• December 6 — C Programming, Part II
  An overview of the C programming language. (Part 2)
  Mark K. Kim
• November 16 — C Programming, Part I
  An overview of the C programming language. (Part 1)
  Mark K. Kim
• November 15 — Intro. To Linux
  An overview of Linux and Open Source for average computer users.
  Bill Kendrick (DCN Class)
• October 4 — Python
  An overview of the Python programming language.
  Allan Hollander
• September 6 — The GIMP
  An overview of The Gimp graphics and photo manipulation tool.
  Bill Kendrick
• June 28, July 13, 1999 — Shell Scripting Basics (Wayback machine archive of external link)
  An overview of using and programming the Bourne Again Shell (BASH) for Unix.
  Pete Salzman