[clug] October CLUG Programmers' Special Interest Group meeting

[Paul Wayper]

	CLUG Programmers' Special Interest Group Meeting - 9th October 2014
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Date:		9th October 2014 (Second Thursday of the month)

Time:		19:00 - 21:00 (or when it finishes)

Speaker:	Brenton Ross

Abstract:	It has been my experience over the years that many
		computer users are quite happy to use arbitrarily
		complex GUI programs (see Blender for example), but are
		very nervous about using a command line program. The
		UNIX desktop environments, from CDE on, have focussed on
		running GUI programs. The result is that the amazingly
		rich set of command line UNIX/Linux programs is now
		almost invisible from the desktop. 
		
		VICI aims to make the UNIX command line programs easily
		available to the users of GUI desktop environments. A
		flow chart can be built with commands and their
		parameters. This can then be saved as a script which can
		be installed into the user's desktop as an application.
		The script supports all Linux commands, pipelines, file
		redirection, variables, functions, and multiple threads
		of control. 
		

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.