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[GTALUG-Announce] GTALUG Meeting Tomorrow at 7:30pm
by Myles Braithwaite 11 May '15

11 May '15

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2015-05/> # OpenStreetMap with Stewart Russell OpenStreetMap is more than just a web mapping platform. It's a comprehensive, community-maintained map/geodatabase of the world that you can hack on. Since the last GTALUG talk on OSM over five years ago, it's grown a lot, and developed a huge community of mappers, developers and data users. In this talk, we'll discuss the basics of using OSM, how it survived a major licence change with only a little drama, and how it succeeds as a community. ## Location George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre 245 Church Street, Room 203 Ryerson University <http://goo.gl/maps/16oJ2> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23447525> ## Schedule * 6:00 pm - Before the meeting a group of GTALUGers will be dining at It's All Grk (101 Dundas St East). * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. * 9:00 pm - After each meeting a group of GTALUGers move to the The Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St East). ## Code of Conduct We want a productive happy community that can welcome new ideas, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between individuals with differing needs, interests and skills. We gain strength from diversity, and actively seek participation from those who enhance it. This code of conduct exists to ensure that diverse groups collaborate to mutual advantage and enjoyment. We will challenge prejudice that could jeopardize the participation of any person in the community. The Code of Conduct governs how we behave in public or in private whenever the Linux community will be judged by our actions. We expect it to be honored by everyone who represents the community officially or informally, claims affiliation, or participates directly. It applies to activities online or offline. We invite anybody to participate. Our community is open. Please read more about the GTALUG Code of Conduct here: <http://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/>. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the GTALUG Code of Conduct please contact one of the GTALUG Board Members @ <board(a)gtalug.org>. --- GTALUG Announce mailing list announce(a)gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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ICANN's Proposal to Move IANA
by Gordon Chillcott 06 May '15

06 May '15

Hi, all: You probably know that in March 2014, the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced its intent to “transition its stewardship role of the IANA Functions and related management”. This meant that NTIA will no longer oversee a contract with ICANN to manage IANA. ICANN will have to do it itself. To get this started, NTIA called on ICANN to “coordinate” the drafting of a proposal to transition this stewardship role to the broader global multi-stakeholder community. This meant drafting of a proposal of its own and inviting other proposals from IETF and the various numbers registries (ARIN, RIPE and the others) and then coordinating them all into one proposal to present to NTIA. ICANN now has a (second) draft of its proposal “ready for comment” (this request for public comment is fairly standard for ICANN policy documents). This one is important enough that we're asking you to look it over and accept ICANN's invitation to comment. Comments are going to be accepted until May 20 – that's short, I know, but there it is. Now, this is a pretty complex document – it's a kind of complex matter, involving contract law (in California, where ICANN is registered), the concerns of a lot of stakeholders outside the US, and the need for ICANN to be seen to be accountable. So, here it is. Send your comments to me at gordon(a)look.ca and I'll compile them into a group comment for ICANN. https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/cwg-stewardship-draft-proposal-… I'm not sure you want to tackle the proposal with annexes. It's painful. Enjoy Gordon Community Affairs Group GTALUG

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Happy Star Wars Day
by James Knott 04 May '15

04 May '15

May the fourth be with you. ;-)

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[GTALUG-Announce] [CORRECTION] Meeting 12th May, 2015 at 7:30pm
by Myles Braithwaite 01 May '15

01 May '15

The meeting is on the 12th of May and not 11th of May. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Myles Braithwaite <me(a)mylesbraithwaite.com> Date: Fri, May 1, 2015 at 8:52 AM Subject: Meeting 11th May, 2015 at 7:30pm To: announce(a)gtalug.org <http://gtalug.org/meeting/2015-05/> # OpenStreetMap with Stewart Russell OpenStreetMap is more than just a web mapping platform. It's a comprehensive, community-maintained map/geodatabase of the world that you can hack on. Since the last GTALUG talk on OSM over five years ago, it's grown a lot, and developed a huge community of mappers, developers and data users. In this talk, we'll discuss the basics of using OSM, how it survived a major licence change with only a little drama, and how it succeeds as a community. ## Location George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre 245 Church Street, Room 203 Ryerson University <http://goo.gl/maps/16oJ2> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23447525> ## Schedule * 6:00 pm - Before the meeting a group of GTALUGers will be dining at It's All Grk (101 Dundas St East). * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. * 9:00 pm - After each meeting a group of GTALUGers move to the The Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St East). ## Code of Conduct We want a productive happy community that can welcome new ideas, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between individuals with differing needs, interests and skills. We gain strength from diversity, and actively seek participation from those who enhance it. This code of conduct exists to ensure that diverse groups collaborate to mutual advantage and enjoyment. We will challenge prejudice that could jeopardize the participation of any person in the community. The Code of Conduct governs how we behave in public or in private whenever the Linux community will be judged by our actions. We expect it to be honored by everyone who represents the community officially or informally, claims affiliation, or participates directly. It applies to activities online or offline. We invite anybody to participate. Our community is open. Please read more about the GTALUG Code of Conduct here: <http://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/>. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the GTALUG Code of Conduct please contact one of the GTALUG Board Members @ <board(a)gtalug.org>. -- Myles Braithwaite | http://mylesb.ca/e --- GTALUG Announce mailing list announce(a)gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting 11th May, 2015 at 7:30pm
by Myles Braithwaite 01 May '15

01 May '15

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2015-05/> # OpenStreetMap with Stewart Russell OpenStreetMap is more than just a web mapping platform. It's a comprehensive, community-maintained map/geodatabase of the world that you can hack on. Since the last GTALUG talk on OSM over five years ago, it's grown a lot, and developed a huge community of mappers, developers and data users. In this talk, we'll discuss the basics of using OSM, how it survived a major licence change with only a little drama, and how it succeeds as a community. ## Location George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre 245 Church Street, Room 203 Ryerson University <http://goo.gl/maps/16oJ2> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23447525> ## Schedule * 6:00 pm - Before the meeting a group of GTALUGers will be dining at It's All Grk (101 Dundas St East). * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. * 9:00 pm - After each meeting a group of GTALUGers move to the The Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St East). ## Code of Conduct We want a productive happy community that can welcome new ideas, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between individuals with differing needs, interests and skills. We gain strength from diversity, and actively seek participation from those who enhance it. This code of conduct exists to ensure that diverse groups collaborate to mutual advantage and enjoyment. We will challenge prejudice that could jeopardize the participation of any person in the community. The Code of Conduct governs how we behave in public or in private whenever the Linux community will be judged by our actions. We expect it to be honored by everyone who represents the community officially or informally, claims affiliation, or participates directly. It applies to activities online or offline. We invite anybody to participate. Our community is open. Please read more about the GTALUG Code of Conduct here: <http://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/>. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the GTALUG Code of Conduct please contact one of the GTALUG Board Members @ <board(a)gtalug.org>. --- GTALUG Announce mailing list announce(a)gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Computer Pioneers - Pioneer Computers Part 2 - YouTube
by James Knott 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsirYCAocZk

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best laptop bag
by Dave Cramer 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

I have a wenger swiss gear that needs replacing. Really like it but just curious if there are any other options ? Dave Cramer

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Libre Graphics
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 27 Apr '15

27 Apr '15

<http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2015/> Meeting in Toronto this week. Pre-meeting workshops started today.

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Virtualized OSes
by Giles Orr 27 Apr '15

27 Apr '15

I've been using VirtualBox a lot recently, and I've been pretty impressed with it - running more than one simultaneous machine, setting up an internal network and running ansible between them, nifty. Today at work we had an interesting discussion about Digital Ocean: the suggestion was made (and undoubtedly it's obvious to many on this list, but it was eye-opening to me, I'm still getting my head around disposable machines) that if you weren't sure an upgrade to a droplet would work, just clone it, do the upgrade on the clone and see how it goes. Then you can make your decision and destroy the unwanted version. All of which made me think "wouldn't it be cool if I could have a system with an totally stripped Linux with VirtualBox as the "Window Manager" so I could toggle between two or three running OSes with graphical interfaces ..." So: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system-level_virtualization_implemen… I've already ruled out OpenVZ as it looks like all virtualized systems have to use the same kernel. Xen seems like the optimal method, but I seem to remember that your processor specifically has to support virtualization ("lscpu" says, among other things, "Virtualization: VT-x", so I'm covered?) Assuming I want the base OS (does that term even apply?) to be Linux, and I don't like proprietary software, what's the "best choice" if I want to simultaneously run things like Debian Jessie, TinyCore, SliTaz, and possibly even Windows 7? Links to good tutorials and "Getting Started" guides would also be very much appreciated. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr(a)gmail.com

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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting 11th May, 2015 at 7:30pm
by Myles Braithwaite 26 Apr '15

26 Apr '15

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2015-05/> # OpenStreetMap with Stewart Russell OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain an open data set of roads, trails, cafes. buildings, railway stations, and much more. ## Location George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre 245 Church Street, Room 203 Ryerson University <http://goo.gl/maps/16oJ2> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23447525> ## Schedule * 6:00 pm - Before each meeting a group of GTALUGers dine at to be determined restaurant. Vote here: <http://strawpoll.me/4216617>. * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. * 9:00 pm - After each meeting a group of GTALUGers move to the The Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St East) for refreshments and more socializing. ## Code of Conduct We want a productive happy community that can welcome new ideas, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between individuals with differing needs, interests and skills. We gain strength from diversity, and actively seek participation from those who enhance it. This code of conduct exists to ensure that diverse groups collaborate to mutual advantage and enjoyment. We will challenge prejudice that could jeopardize the participation of any person in the community. The Code of Conduct governs how we behave in public or in private whenever the Linux community will be judged by our actions. We expect it to be honored by everyone who represents the community officially or informally, claims affiliation, or participates directly. It applies to activities online or offline. We invite anybody to participate. Our community is open. Please read more about the GTALUG Code of Conduct here: <http://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/>. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the GTALUG Code of Conduct please contact one of the GTALUG Board Members. --- GTALUG Announce mailing list announce(a)gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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