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Hackfest!! Crisis Camp @ HackerspaceSG

angad — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:52:37 +0000

Hackfest @ HackerspaceSG

Crisis Camp!

linuxNUS is back with its Hackfest and this time our venue is HackerspaceSG! Interestingly, the theme of the Hackfest is “Crisis Camp”! [1] We plan to hack (conceptually and practically) projects for improving technology and practice for humanitarian crisis management and disaster relief.

Inspired by the CrisisCommons Projects [2] of Crisis Camps, we organise this for NUS students and the local Singapore developer community to join and discuss.

All the hackers/geeks/enthusiasts are invited to attend the linuxNUS Hackfest!

You are also of-course free to work on whichever development project you want to, be it anything ranging from Linux to Android to Facebook. Or you can just collaborate with others on their projects. Look out for the one that interests you.

Date – 7th February, Sunday
Time – 1.30pm to – 6pm
Venue – HackerspaceSG, 70A Bussorah Street [3]

[1] http://www.crisiscommons.org/

[2] http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Projects

[3] http://hackerspace.sg/

You may want to register here : http://tinyurl.com/FebHackfest

An Afternoon with Simone Brunozzi, Amazon Web Services

angad — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:32:55 +0000

An Afternoon with Simone Brunozzi
Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Date: Thursday, 26 November 2009, 4pm to 6pm
Venue: What’s Next Studio, F11, Symbiosis Block, Fusionopolis

4.00pm Registration
4.30pm Presentation by Simone Brunozzi, Amazon Web Services
5.15pm Discussion and Sharing
6.00pm End

Simone looks forward to share with the audience on the latest trends on cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, and intricate details about Amazon S3. He will also have an open discussion following his presentation with the participants.

Registration: http://apesnap.com/event/simonebrunozzi.

Organised by NUS Linux Users’ Group and Azione Capital.

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About Simone Brunozzi

Simone Brunozzi is a technology enthusiast, involved in IT and computing since an early age.

He joined Amazon.com in March 2008 in the role of Web Services Evangelist, traveling across Europe and vicinity to showcase the innovative new solutions by Amazon Web Services and to help developers build businesses and applications. He is following the “Cloud Computing” paradigm shift since 2006, and believes that it is going to replace the traditional computing model in a few years.

Of Italian origins, Simone loves traveling, meeting people, and connecting with them. He is a Linux and Ubuntu passionate, loves blogging on www.brunozzi.com, and has interests in the environment, clean energies, and technology in general.

Prior to joining Amazon, Simone had his own business focusing on web applications. He also served as a professor of Programming Languages and Compilers at Perugia University and worked as a network and system administrator at the University for Foreigners in Perugia. Simone has a Computer Science degree and spent six months at UC Irvine, California, where he studied the American approach to business and science. He gained early programming experience at the Ministry of Aerial Defense in Rome, Italy.

Hackfest Again! November 2009

angad — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:58:51 +0000

We are back with our Hackfest and this time our venue is Redhat Office!

All the hacker/geeks/enthusiasts are invited to attend the linuxNUS Hackfest!

At linuxNUS Hackfests, youre free to work on whichever development project you want to, be it anything ranging from Linux to Android to Facebook. Or you can just collaborate with others on their projects. Look out for the one that interests you.

Importantly, you get to meet and interact with other hackers, and hopefully everyone gets to pass a little knowledge around. The more knowledge is shared, the more everyone benefits! Isnt that great!

Date: 14th November, Saturday
Venue: RedHat Office
8 Shenton Way #10-00, Singapore 068811
Timing: 1pm to 6pm
Please fill out the form below
http://tr.im/linuxnushackfest09
or
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFlrY09IYnRCRHlNcTkxalRNeC1YQ3c6MA

For any queries contact : contact@linuxnus.org

Hope to see you there!

GNOME.Asia Summit 2009

Luther Goh Lu Feng — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:37:08 +0000

The GNOME.Asia Summit is one of the top Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) events for developers, enterprises, officials and general users in Vietnam. The event brings together FOSS projects from Asia and around the world.

The event will feature keynotes, sessions, lightning talks, exhibitions, and a hands-on lab. Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

* GNOME 3.0
* Localization & Internationalization
* Mobile platforms and thin clients
* GNOME Communities
* GNOME library and application development
* Desktop deployments
* School software

The event takes place from Nov. 20-22, 2009, in Ho Chi Minh City.

Chairing this event is none other than Mario Behling, President of the LXDE Foundation, and a close friend of Singapore’s FOSS community.

If you are interested in attending this event yourself or know of attendees from Singapore, please kindly indicate in the comments below. It will be great to have a strong Singaporean representation at the event

Singapore Python User Group Oct Meetup

Luther Goh Lu Feng — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:03:07 +0000

Date: 15th October 2009 (Thursday)
Time: 7 pm to 9+ pm
Venue: Singapore Management University, SIS (School of Information System) Seminar Room 2.2

Planned program :

* Python Games Development in 60 minutes (as a Mini Sprint) – Mr. Morgan Heijdemann

Pre-requisites : Because this is a mini-sprint, you need to bring your laptop computer for the hands-on.
Pre-installations : Please have python 2.5/2.6 and pyglet 1.1.3 installed beforehand. (http://www.pyglet.org/download.html)

* Python Programming on Your Browser – Dr. Liew Beng Keat

* PyCon – Call for Papers (Stand up Singapore!) – Dr. Maurice Ling

· PUG website – Connecting our Community – Mr. Abhaya Shenoy

* Lightning talks – Open Invitation.

More details at the website.

linuxNUS HackFest October 2009

dqminh — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:25:13 +0000

Hi guys,

linuxNUS is back again with our monthly HackFest. This month, we are proud to have Red Hat as our venue sponsor. So join us and lets have a great weekend together ! Details of the HackFest is as follow:

Time: 1pm-6pm, 17th October 2009

Venue: (Change in Venue) Wego Pte Ltd, 53B Boat Quay, Singapore 049842

To RSVP: please fill in our form below RSVP HERE

If you have any other enquiries, please email us at coreteam@linuxnus.org

[Upcoming] What now, linuxNUS?

Ruiwen — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:30:32 +0000

Thanks again everyone for showing such support for our Welcome Tea! You guys turned out in such great numbers this year that we were caught completely off guard! We know it was a tight squeeze, but you guys were such great sports to help shift the furniture around to make way, you rock! =)

linuxNUS Welcome Teao 2009 - By Ruiwen

Future FLOSS sardines - By Gaurav

It’s really heartening to see such strong support for FLOSS (Free, Libre, Open Source Software) in NUS, and we’d really like to do more to help everyone learn and grow as much within the community as possible. Many have said mentioned to us that they’d really like to get more involved with the FLOSS community, but feel like they aren’t yet up to snuff. If you feel that way, don’t! The great thing about the FLOSS community is that all you need to do is ask, and someone usually has a handy solution waiting. Even better, tell us which activities you think will be most beneficial to you and we’ll absolutely try our best to get it done!

Oh, and we were talking about contributing right? A few kind souls have mailed us expressing great interest in being part of the organising team (or Coreteam) for linuxNUS. We’re always happy to have see new faces, of course, so if you’re ready to be part of one of the most active and diverse group of open source advocates in Singapore, join us (if you haven’t already)!

The Welcome Tea might be over, but we’re definitely not putting our feet up! linuxNUS has a few great activities lined up, and we really hope you’ll be able to be part of them!

In there coming weeks, stay tuned for the Installfest, and Hackfest (details to be confirmed). We will also be at Software Freedom Day Singapore 2009, Booth #7.

With that, I’ll leave you now with some pictures taken at the Welcome Tea, held Thursday, 9 Sept 09, at SoC COM1. Enjoy! (Pictures after the jump)

The audience packed out the door

Luther a.k.a elfgoh, explaining how he got into FLOSS

"Ooh, can I see?"

Happy FLOSSers!

More happy FLOSSers!

The rest of the photos can be found here: [1] [2].

linuxNUS Installfest Sep 2009

Luther Goh Lu Feng — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:25:01 +0000

linuxNUS is hosting an Installfest at on 17 Sep 2009, Thursday, 745pm, at COM1 SR2.

During this community building event, people get together to do mass/Free installations of Linux Operating System and other open source software. The event is open to everyone, from the complete newbie to the expert. Novices can bring their computers along and learn from experienced users in Installation and troubleshooting problems.

Through this event, linuxNUS hopes to strengthen and build the community of Linux and Open Source users in NUS and Singapore.

For the purposes of instruction and coordination, the session will focus on the installation of Ubuntu 9.04. However, users are free to try their hand at installing other distributions during the event. Please bring the Ubuntu Live CD given out at the Welcome Tea, if you already have one as limited CDs will be provided at the event. You can download the ISO file from an NUS mirror and burn the image with CD burning software such as InfraRecorder.

If you are interested to attend the event, please kindly RSVP at http://linuxnus.org/register/installfest so that we can estimate the headcount for light refreshments.

See how our previous Installfest went here.

Welcome Tea Sep 2009

Luther Goh Lu Feng — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:46:25 +0000

Hi everyone,

I hope everyone has had an enjoyable summer break! To the freshmen, I bid you a warm welcome to the NUS family on behalf of linuxNUS!

To usher in the beginning of the new academic year, we are organizing a Welcome Tea. The linuxNUS Welcome Tea will be held at COM 1/SR10 on 09/09/09 (Wed) at 7pm. The purpose of this session is to introduce to you linuxNUS’s activities and related Open Source goings-on in NUS. We will also announce the upcoming exciting events that we have lined up for you. Light refreshments will be provided too.

The agenda of the Welcome Tea is listed below:
- Introduction about linuxNUS and Open Source@NUS
- Google Summer Of Code sharing session by successful participants

This is a great opportunity to get to know folks of the Linux and Open Source community in NUS, and learn about the importance of Open Source software in this era.

We will be giving out Ubuntu 9.04 and Fedora 11 installer CDs (while stocks last, so hurry down :p) If you need any assistance pertaining to Linux, we will be on hand to answer any questions you may have (i.e. wireless connectivity issues, etc).

If you would like to attend, please register at http://linuxnus.org/register/welcometea2009/ This is so that we know how many people are coming and provide for enough refreshments. Also, if you want an installer CD, let us know as well so we can reserve one for you!

We would also like to take this opportunity to introduce our vibrant webchat on the FreeNode IRC server. For any enquiries, please email us at contact@linuxnus.org.

We are looking forward to meet all of you at the Welcome Tea. Be there~!

Cheers,
Daniel Dao Quang Minh
President
linuxNUS

PS.
There will also be a GPG key signing party coming up soon!.

Singapore Ruby Brigade Sep 09 Meetup

Luther Goh Lu Feng — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:23:09 +0000

SINGAPORE RUBY BRIGADE SEPTEMBER 2009 MEETUP

Hi Everyone,

The eagerly anticipated SRB September meetup is happening on this month. As usual, it’s an exciting opportunity to meet, listen to and network with the top techies in Singapore! So you’re encouraged to drop in even if you don’t know too much about Ruby. And it’s totally free, as always.

- Presentations -

1. hQuery + slideshare experiences – Choon Keat
2. Rebol – Tamas Herman
3. Using Ruby to write stored procedures in PostgreSQL – Dinesh Raju
4. Wegonomics insights – Winston

- When -

2 September 2009, Wednesday, 7pm

- Where-

Yahoo! South East Asia,

Level 8
Suntec City Tower 4,
Singapore
How to get there: From Cityhall MRT walk through City Link till the end and emerge at Suntec City. Walk to Tower 4 which is the last tower nearest to Temesek Avenue. Carrefour is between tower 3 & 4. Take the office elevator to 8th level.

** Venue for this month’s SRB meetup has been changed **
*Wego*
53B Boat Quay
Singapore 049842

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- Dress code -
Whatever. Laptops as clothing accessories are welcomed.

Please forward this to any geek friends who may benefit! Thanks!

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