[clug] July Canberra Linux Users Group meeting
Chris Smart
chris at kororaa.org
Mon Jul 23 22:00:01 GMT 2007
Canberra Linux Users Group Meeting - 26th July 2007
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Date: 26th July 2007 (Fourth Thursday of the month)
Time: 19:00 - 21:00 (or when it finishes)
Speaker: Kelly Daly, Chris Yeoh and Pascal Klein
Abstract:
Tonight we try a new format - split talks!
After a brief introduction and a couple of lightning
'what's new in Open Source' segments, we'll split up
into two groups.
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The technical talk for the night will be given by Kelly
Daly and Chris Yeoh about hacking on Second Life.
They'll be talking about the things that IBM did in
order to integrate the Rod Laver Arena into Second Life,
and the processes of data interchange between Second
Life and the real world. They'll also be talking about
scripting in Second Life from various perspectives and
the development of the open source clients for Second
Life.
Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com), released by
Linden Labs, is a complete 3D virtual world built and
owned by its residents.
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The less technical talk for the night will be given by
Pascal Klein on the basics of hitting the road with
Inkscape. His previous talks have focused more on what
Inkscape is and what has been done with it as apposed to
how to begin using this great piece of free software. In
this talk Pascal will look at using Inkscape to begin
producing something suggested from the floor, whilst
explaining the process and techniques used.
What is Inkscape? Inkscape is a vector graphics
illustrator, perfect for creating mockups, website
designs, buttons and other small graphics, desktop
artwork, icons, beautify-ing diagrams and even for user
interface designs. Inkscape is free software -- it is
licensed under the GPL and is fully SVG, CSS and XML
compliant.
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We will then meet back in the main meeting room for
pizza and sushi.
Venue: Room N101
Computer Science and Information Technology Building
North Road
The Australian National University
See http://clug.org.au/ for more directions and a map
Food/drink: Pizza and soft drink/juice. Come hungry, and bring
about $6 to cover the cost of your share if you
want some.
If you would like to give a talk at a future meeting, please email me.
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