April 14th, 2013 | 
Author: Title: April Meeting 2013
Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata
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Description: It’s April and there is still snow on the ground. Thanks Ottawa weather!
Topics this month:
- NAS devices, specifically the synology units
- smart watches… useful?
- monitoring tools and agents
- other oddities as usual
If there are new people, look for a gaggle of people that may have laptops or tablets out and there will likely be a set of crutches nearby.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2013-04-18
End Time: 21:30
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Title: March Meeting 2013
Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata
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Description: Time to get together and celebrate the wheels in your head make that quarter-turn and move forward. We have lost an hour until fall and are possibly still suffering for it.
We have a number of oddball topics this month:
- Compiling statically linked binaries to create “future-proof” support tools (sure they are)
- Fun and games in document generation – take it away Bruce!
- Generating reports with web pages and other miscellaneous items (tools for the document haters)
- Using MarkDown as a documentation tool – easier than one would think
- Multi-boot with a raspberry pi
Could be interesting. As always, there will be a variety of unrelated conversation, arcane references and conversations that will fill your trivia buffers to overflowing.
Don’t forget that we are back to the Tim Horton’s on Eagleson Rd @ 19:00. If there are new people, look for a gaggle of people that may have laptops or tablets out and there will likely be a set of crutches nearby.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2013-03-21
End Time: 21:30
Title: February Meeting 2013
Location: Tim Horton’s, 660 Eagleson Rd, Kanata
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Description: The location will be the Tim Horton’s on Eagleson, the location we have been meeting at regularly for the last year or two. The Tim Horton’s in Bells Corners turned out to be a dissapointment due to a very small interior.
Topics…
How about what are people working on?
What seems to be the growing trends?
Will we still be employable in 5 years?
Other topics welcome.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2013-02-21
End Time: 21:30
For those who haven’t heard me talking about it, we are having an “unconference” at Shopify’s headquarters on February 9th. It is an open event any anybody is welcome to come out and see what user groups we have in the region. You can visit the site at ugconnect.ca
UGC 2013:
- Drop in to our free relaxed one day unconference.
- Meet some of the many technical User Groups in Ottawa.
- Chat with fellow high tech workers, and students.
- Meet with some of the most tech-friendly local companies.
Why would we do this?
Not everyone knows about all the user groups – the user groups are doing very interesting stuff and sometimes complementary things that would benefit from knowledge of the topics in other user groups. We want to get these doers in the same room together where they can collaborate with and learn from each other.
Why should you go?
- Meet new people
- Learn about technical groups
- Meet people you haven’t seen in a while
- Invite your ex-co-workers from some ex-employer to meet there, and go for lunch after
- See new technology (or new-to-you technology)
- Try out some new technology
- Play some bzflag
Why should you join a user group?
- Advance your career
- Learn new technologies
- Meet people from other companies that need people to do the same thing you do now
- Meet people from other companies that need your skills to different things that you aren’t doing now
- Bullets on the HR checklist – “learns stuff”, “learns from others”
- Present topics
- even short ones count
- practice brings comfort
- gives you amazing name recognition in the community and makes you an expert
When
February 9, 2013
General Public: 10:00 – 16:00
Where
Shopify is in the Market area, right downtown, at 126 York Street, half a block east of Dalhousie and the Byward Market, not far from the Rideau Centre Transit Station. Google Map
The entrance for our meetings is at the back of the building, next to the ‘pay’ parking lot. Look for the glass doors with the unicorns on them.
Title: 2013 January Meeting
Location: Tim Horton’s, Fitzgerald Rd. @ Robertson Rd.
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Description: First meeting of 2013.
Some discussion of LISA’12, LOPSA discussion, a little discussion on my documentation quest and anything else people want to bring up.
The location is a little small, but given our attendance in the past, this shouldn’t be a problem. The place is laid out like a small upscale coffee shop, possibly with less seating than the old Bells Corners location.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2013-01-17
End Time: 21:30
