Workshops

Below are our proposed workshops for the next 12 months.  If you'd like anything discussed or could present one of the basic or advanced workshops please comment below:

2012

February

  • Basic: Robin Murray will demostrate the Tasker Android App
  • Advanced: Andrew Esler will demonstate Android app development

March

  • Basic: We'll all plan workshops for the year (Brynn will put meeting rules on site)
  • Advanced: Open forum to discuss and demonstrate Open Source stuff

April

  • Basic: Jim's intro to Linux (Don wil sort out meeting place cause Brynn wil be in the US)
  • Advanced: Nick will show Media Portal

May

  • Basic: Brynn will demonstrate different Linux Desktops demo (lxde, gnome 3, xfce, kde, mint)
  • Advanced: Nick will demonstrae how to install Myth TV

June

  • Basic: Giovanni will demonstrate TinyCore Linux which is an expandable 10MB Linux Distro suited for both portable and desktop use.
  • Advanced: Linux gaming by Nick (Open Arena)

July

  • Basic: Gmail for business by Brynn
  • Advanced: John an intro to Gimp

August

  • Basic: Brynn will demonstrate the Open Source software that Spining Planet uses to build and manage websites.
  • Advanced: Trevor will present Blender 3D

September

  • Basic: Basic VirtualBox
  • Advanced: Raspberry PI demo by Brynn

October

  • Basic: Brynn will show he does a custom install of Fedora so it only includes software and custom configurations that Spining Planet uses.
  • Advanced: Brynn will demonstrate how he uses commands in a terminal to view logs, identify who owns a domain name, kill processes, schedule commands, etc.

November

  • PLUG Linux Expo

December

  • Plug BBQ

2011

July 2011:
  • Basic: Gnome Shell - Brynn
  • Advanced: GIT: Version control - Giovanni
August 2011:
  • Basic: OpenShot - Trevor
  • Advanced: Video for mobile devices - Nick

September 2011

  • Basic: Hardware that works well with Linux - Nick
  • Advanced: Webmin - Brynn

October

  • Basic: Playing at Big Brother with Google Earth - Jim
  • Advanced: Expose Internal Servers to the Wider Community - DNS/Firewall - Stephen

November

  • Basic: Creating a xorg.con to run 3 monitors, booting off usb on old pc, getting usb floppy drives to work, apache web server,
  • Advanced: O Auth (OAuth Authentication Protocol - http://oauth.net/2/)

December

  • To be advised, if you don't hear from us turn up to Spinning Planet

February

  • Basic:       Robin Murray will demostrate the Tasker Android App
  • Advanced: Andrew Esler will demonstate Android app development

March

  • Basic:
  • Advanced: