Winter 2012

I apologize for the late meeting topic announcement, but there were some unexpected delays.

Thursday, March 8th at 7:00PM in Dreese 266 Joel Friedly will present on a project he was working on for a class. For a lab in his Python class, he built a simple Bayes network-based text classifier to identify That's What She Said jokes in conversation transcripts. This will be added to Jenni, the Open Source Club's IRC bot, so that she can make jokes at appropriate times in conversation. It will replace the old TWSS identifier.

Additionally, we will plan for the next quarter.

Thursday, March 1st at 7:00PM, various club members will be presenting window managers and desktop environments for X11. If you've never used anything but the default interface that comes with your Linux distribution and are interested in trying something new out, this should be right up your alley. If you've got a favorite, obscure window manager and you want to help spread the word, here's your chance.

Currently, the following are more or less taken(/assigned):

Thursday, February 23rd at 7:00PM in Dreese 266 various club members will be presenting personal projects. If you're working on anything, feel free to bring it in to show off!

This Thursday at 7:00PM, in Dreese Lab room 266, Brian Swaney will be teaching us the basics of GIMP image editing.

This Thursday at 7:00PM, in Dreese Lab room 266, Scott Cantor will be presenting on OSU's central web-based authentication system, Shibboleth.

Thursday, February 2nd at 7:00PM in Dreese 266 Daniel Thau will be presenting Unix CLI Utilities such as grep, sed and awk. These tools are present on every Unix machine, and so if one ever finds him or herself on someone else's Unix box without their language of choice, her or she can always fall back to these tools. Moreover, they're quite good at manipulating text - the fundamental necessity for managing a Unix system. If you want to play along, bring just about any Unix or Unixy-like system with access to a terminal emulator, or if you're on Windows look into installing "cygwin,"

*Thursday January 26, 2012*
*Dreese Lab 266*

Haskell is an advanced purely-functional programming language. An
> open-source product of more than twenty years of cutting-edge research, it
> allows rapid development of robust, concise, correct software. With strong
> support for integration with other languages, built-in concurrency and
> parallelism, debuggers, profilers, rich libraries and an active community,
> Haskell makes it easier to produce flexible, maintainable, high-quality
> software.

- Haskell.org

Thursday January 26th, 2012
Dreese Lab 266

Haskell is an advanced purely-functional programming language. An open-source product of more than twenty years of cutting-edge research, it allows rapid development of robust, concise, correct software. With strong support for integration with other languages, built-in concurrency and parallelism, debuggers, profilers, rich libraries and an active community, Haskell makes it easier to produce flexible, maintainable, high-quality software.

- Haskell.org

*Introduction to Haskell Part B*
*Dreese 266*
*7pm Thursday Jan 19 2012*

> *Haskell is an advanced purely-functional programming language. An
> open-source product of more than twenty years of cutting-edge research, it
> allows rapid development of robust, concise, correct software. With strong
> support for integration with other languages, built-in concurrency and
> parallelism, debuggers, profilers, rich libraries and an active community,
> Haskell makes it easier to produce flexible, maintainable, high-quality
> software.*

- Haskell.org

*Introduction to Haskell Part 0*
*Dreese 266*
*7pm Thursday Jan 12 2012*

> *Haskell is an advanced purely-functional programming language. An
> open-source product of more than twenty years of cutting-edge research, it
> allows rapid development of robust, concise, correct software. With strong
> support for integration with other languages, built-in concurrency and
> parallelism, debuggers, profilers,rich libraries and an active community,
> Haskell makes it easier to produce flexible, maintainable, high-quality
> software.*

- Haskell.org

January 5th, 2012 at 7:00PM in Dreese 266, Paul Schwendenman, Meisam Fathi Salmi and Daniel Thau will be giving presentations on Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS). DVCSs are distributed systems which keep track of software revisions. These are usually, but not necessarily, used to manage programming projects. Daniel will go over the idea behind a DVCS, as well as some of the stuff going on under the hood in one of them (git). Meisam will continue presenting on git, going over things such as the git commands, config file, hooks, and daemon.