Contributed by: Tim Inkpen

The LPI Course Project is Alive and well. This is project is will put free on-line courses for the LPI Levels 1 & 2 exams for ovSAGE members at http://www.businessincubator.ca/education/.

After several false starts, I have decided review the entire LPI exam requirements in depth before building the course.

Anyone interested in assisting with this project is welcome to contact me at tinkpen at sympatico.ca, Phone: (613) 241-7394 or Skype (ID: tinkpen).

The original speaker has fallen through, not a large enough audience, and we don’t have the capacity for a very large one, so I guess it’s all good.

There is a possibility for a speaker from Novell to show up tonight, but I don’t have confirmation on that either.

I am going to bring along a short video I saw years ago that may be new to most people. Hopefully the VGA adapter I picked up for my mac works with the projector.

There I was at the local HTCIA meeting and the presenter was nattering about HCI and passed this comment:

There are only two industries where the customer base is calles users:

1. Computer science, support and design
2. Drug Trafficking

It struck me as worth repeating.

For the acronymically challenged…

HTCIA - High Tech Crime Investigation Association

HCI - Human Computer Interaction

I was so happy with a recent book purchase that I decided to install the book review module. It installed with no issues, and appeared as a content option as expected. Then the trouble started…

It appears that there is some incompatability with the module. It says it is installed, I can fill out the forms, but when I save it, nothing. After wasting a day on changes, attempted fixes, and browsing the database (of course I had opened the wrong one so nothing appeared to be working properly), I decided to uninstall it.

I was dragged to Barcamp 3 yesterday. It seems Carleton U has been granted some provincial money to “foster open source” so one of their contributions was to host Barcamp.

Barcamp seems to be a once-in-a-while (every month-and-a half? every two months?) event. I think the Ottawa event was started by some vulture/venture capitalists who wanted to meet techies to slave, I mean work in their startups. But, this time they seem to have attracted some actual techies.