Autumn 2011

Thursday, December 1st at 7:00PM in Dreese room 266, a number of our members will be presenting on various Open Source Operating Systems. These will not be overly in-depth as some of our past presentations have been; rather, these should just taste of what these Operating Systems are like or why people may be interested in learning more about them.

Saturday, November 19th from 10:30AM-11:30PM (yes, 13 hours!) in the Ohio Union Interfaith Prayer and Reflection, the Open Source Club will be hosting a LAN party!

We will be focusing on open source gaming, but those with proprietary games on proprietary platforms will be welcome as well. For more information, see http://opensource.osu.edu/lan

Don't forget to bring your own computer, ethernet cable and surge protector.

Hope to see you there!

This week I will be demonstrating several open source multiplayer games we will be playing at our LAN party on Saturday!

I will be doing live demonstrations on live severs we will use for the event, so feel free to install the games on your laptop and join me in-game.

Here is a short list of the games we will be playing. This list will likely change up until the LAN party.

Games
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* Warsow
* World of Padman
* Tremulous
* Armagetron
* Scorched3D
* BZFlag
* Teeworlds
* Freedoom

November 10th at 7:00PM in Dreese 266, Maxim Kim will be giving a presentation on Clojure. Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine (and the CLR, and JavaScript). It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Every feature supported by Clojure is supported at runtime.

This Thursday, in Dreese Labs room 266, Alex Lingo will host his infamous This Week in Slashdot™ discussion. As is the general format, Alex will display and discuss major events in technology, with feedback from the audience.

October 27th at 7:00PM in Dreese 266, Daniel Thau will be giving a presentation on Regular Expressions. Regular Expressions is a system for pattern recognition in text which is extremely useful for text processing. This talk may be especially appealing to up-and-coming *nix admins, since such systems rely heavily on text for things like configuration, but should be useful for anyone interested in software.

October 20th at 7:00PM in Dreese 266, Paul Schwendenman will be giving a presentation on Xiki. Xiki is a modified version of emacs created specifically for web development with the goal of having an easy learning curve.

Additionally, there will be a discussion and vote regarding some changes to the club constitution.

Link to slides

October 13th at 7:00PM in Dreese 266, Daniel Thau will be giving a presentation on Vim, an extremely powerful text editing program. Vim is known for having a difficult learning curve, but for many of those who do any appreciable amount of work editing text (such as Unix configuration, programming, etc) the benefits can far outweigh the cost.

This Thursday, in Dreese Lab room 266, I will demonstrating how you can make pictures lie using only open source software. Fanboys will often proclaim what they can do in a certain expensive proprietary image editor that shall not be named, so I'm going to demonstrate just the same things are do-able from another certain free, open source program. My claim is that GIMP is just as capable of making your pictures lie as any other mainstream image manipulation software.

Thursday, September 29th at 7:00PM in Dreese Labs 266, Michael Yanovich will be covering wireless security with a heavy regard towards wireless hacking. He will be covering how wireless networks work, the several types of encryption available, and other settings that can set to try to protect your network. He will be demonstrating these attacks as well, and he encourages people to bring their laptops if they wish to participate (if your wireless card can not run the available software, he will be providing a sample dump for you to play around with, this will be available at the meeting).

Thursday, September 22nd at 7:00PM in Dreese Labs room 266, the Ohio State University Open Source Club will have its first meeting of the 2011-2012 academic year.  Daniel Thau will be giving an introduction to the concept of Free/Open Source Software to help explain to any [potential] new members what the club is about.  After that we'll have a PGP signing party (we'll likely have a talk on what PGP is some time next quarter).

We should have pizza available as well.