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This is our main meeting.  This meeting usually takes the form of 1 or usually more presentations.  We try to keep a good balance of novice and advanced subjects so that nobody will be overwhelmed of bored.  Just show up, and we hope you learn something.

If you would like some examples of what to expect at this meeting, check out some of the videos that have been made of our presentations.

Topics:
Various topics ranging form beginner's to advanced, user to administrator.
When: Second Thursday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: Currently we are only meeting online at https://lufthans.bigbluemeeting.com/plu-yuk-7xx , please check if there is an announcement with an alternative address.  We hope to start meetings in person again soon.

What to expect(For in person meeting):

  • 6:30 - mingling/networking and last minute setup
  • 7:00 - Formal meeting starts with announcements and other PLUG business
  • 7:15 - Presentation(s)
  • 9:00 - Clean up and CAT (Chat About Technology) at a local restaurant. (We sit around and talk about Linux and other geeky stuff over food) We usually meet up at BJ;s in the Chandler fashion center mall located at:
    3155 W.Chandler Blvd.
    Chandler, AZ  85226 (Map to BJ's)

Tucker Wolfe will present on:

Resumes: what to do, what to avoid, discuss and debunk popular myths, etc


This months presentation will be by Chris Lewis on the rise of A.I. We will also be continuing with Brian Cluff's mini graphics demos with this month being on GIMP's resynthesizer plugin.

Presenter: Larry Thiel

TOPIC: Openshot Video Editor

BIO

Larry Thiel started playing with computers in 1964.  Studying them in college in those days earned one a minor in Mathematics but there were no degree programs relating to computers and nothing was even called Computer Science.  He went on to works in programming with small companies and ended up managing a C/C++ hosted on HP servers in 14 states which ran 24/7 with maximum allowed downtimes of less than 15 minutes per server.

 

I (Brian) will also continue my mini presentations on various multimedia software.

Tonights edition will be on Creating simple flourishes in Inkscape using the bezier curve tool along with path effects.  I will also be quickly showing how to import the plug calendar into a couple of different calender programs.

It's that time again when out usual PLUG meeting is set suspended in favor of our Christmas party.

Come join us for the pot luck party.  Bring whatever you think will be enjoyed by all.

If someone can bring cups, napkins, plates or utensils that would be great at we usually don't have enough to go around, but you might want to announce on the list that you are bringing any of the above items as we could end up with all cups and no food if we aren't careful.

TOPIC: What's new in Ubuntu

ABSTRACT
Ubuntu has been the most popular Desktop Linux download on the planet for 6 years.  They produce a new release every 6 months.  The latest was Ubuntu 11.10 (meaning 2011 and in the 10th month).  This release saw some major content changes as well as significant progress on their new Unity GUI.  This talk will describe many of those changes.

BIO
Larry Thiel started playing with computers in 1964.  Studying them in college in those days earned one a minor in Mathematics but there were no degree programs relating to computers and nothing was even called Computer Science.  He went on to works in programming with small companies and ended up managing a C/C++ hosted on HP servers in 14 states which ran 24/7 with maximum allowed downtimes of less than 15 minutes per server.


I (Brian) will also continue my mini presentations on various multimedia software.
Tonights edition will be on GIMP using layers and wavelet decompose to do various operations to an image. 

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