From lingo.13 at osu.edu Sun Mar 4 19:22:44 2007 From: lingo.13 at osu.edu (Alexander J. Lingo) Date: Sun Mar 4 19:23:14 2007 Subject: [opensource-announce] Meeting Announcement: 3/6/07 - OPENSOURCE CLUB MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT: ====================================== Date: 2/6/2007 Time: 7:00PM Room: 480 Dreese Labs Topic: Rockbox: Open Source Audio Player Firmware Presenter: Alex Lingo Rockbox is an open-s Message-ID: <8242065d0703041622l2bb6118fn420e5f961bd9d85d@mail.gmail.com> OPENSOURCE CLUB MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT: ====================================== Date: 2/272007 Time: 7:00PM Room: 480 Dreese Labs Topic: GNU General Public License, Version 3 Presenter: Farhad Salehi Come join us as Farhad leads us through the ins and outs of the current draft of the GNU General Public License, version 3. Come discover what had changed, and what has been added, and what the reasonings and issues surrounding the changes are. It should been an interesting and enlightening time. --alex ====================================== Club meetings are always open to the general public including nonmembers and nonstudents. Meetings are casual and usually last about one and a half hours. You are welcome to attend as your schedule permits - please be courteous when coming late or leaving early. For more information, please visit: http://opensource.cse.ohio-state.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/opensource-announce/attachments/20070304/a8314206/attachment.html From lingo.13 at osu.edu Mon Mar 5 15:23:34 2007 From: lingo.13 at osu.edu (Alexander J. Lingo) Date: Mon Mar 5 15:24:04 2007 Subject: [opensource-announce] End of Quarter Dinner: 3/8/07 Message-ID: <8242065d0703051223g5d73802enc2d8bd30fa5ae6d5@mail.gmail.com> Hello All! To celebrate the end of the quarter, we are having a get together on Thursday,March 8th. We will be having dinner at the Varsity Club at 278 W. Lane Ave at 6:00pm. We have eaten at the Varsity Club the last few quarters and have had a fun time with good food (and beer)! We may not be able to get a single table for us all, since it is first-come, first-serve, but we'll find a way to make it work. See you all there! --alex -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/opensource-announce/attachments/20070305/b560d726/attachment.html From catherine.devlin at gmail.com Thu Mar 22 13:31:48 2007 From: catherine.devlin at gmail.com (Catherine Devlin) Date: Sat Mar 24 15:12:45 2007 Subject: [opensource-announce] centralOH@python.org mailing list Message-ID: <6523e39a0703221031h72aac909ob0a0e15114ed237c@mail.gmail.com> Hello, Open Source folks! For those of you interested in Python, I'd like to invite you to join a centralOH@python.org, a new mailing list for Python users in the area: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/centraloh Its purpose is to plot and scheme for future Python-related events in the area - classes? Talks at LinuxFest? A regional miniconference? Who knows? Please join and help us stay in touch with each other. Thanks so much! -- - Catherine http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/opensource-announce/attachments/20070322/f30b0c1d/attachment.html From lingo.13 at osu.edu Thu Mar 29 22:34:09 2007 From: lingo.13 at osu.edu (Alexander J. Lingo) Date: Thu Mar 29 22:34:17 2007 Subject: [opensource-announce] The Future of Open Source Club & Spring Workshops Message-ID: <8242065d0703291934g7bdd1772o1c1270ffaebe8735@mail.gmail.com> Hello all, Spring Quarter is here, and Open Source Club is still alive. But, I am unsure how long. Nothing threatens us immediately; but there is a threat that I have felt -- stagnation. Our format has generally been to have someone give a presentation on a topic that they either know about or are interested in learning about. These presentations are a great learning experience, both as a presenter and as an attendee. But there is a factor working against us: We have a small meeting-going membership, with few new faces. This tends to mean the same awesome people are always presenting equally awesome things. I am not sure that this format is sustainable. We do not advertise our presence to the outside university. We offer few outward-reaching services/events. The only way we can grow is through word-of-mouth, which sadly is not enough to reach all those who could be interested in Open Source. Computer software is something that most people interact with on a daily basis. Students today grew up alongside the personal computer. Very few computer users know about open source and the awesome operating systems and applications that are readily available to them. We are an organization that is too inward-facing. Student organizations are supposed to work for students and other interested parties, and I believe we are not giving back to the OSU community as much as we could and should. I think that we should work to advertise, explain, and showcase the open source offerings to the students of Ohio State. For the most part, we have been preaching to the choir -- those who know what open source is and what possibilities it offers. We've made an outreach before, with the Open Source Workshops of last Spring Quarter. We had a moderate attendance at those meetings. This quarter, we should work to offer another series of workshops. Last quarter we thought that workshops revolving around OpenOffice.org/media creation would be a good idea. So, I'm asking, what ideas do you have for club format, outreach, and Spring Workshops do you have? It could be as simple as us standing on the Oval handing out Ubuntu CD's. I'd love to hear everyone's ideas. -- alex -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/opensource-announce/attachments/20070329/a6b25deb/attachment-0001.html