[ale] ITT Linux Festival!

[Charles Shapiro]

And maybe an outdoor pizza barbecue station!

-- CHS


On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:04 AM, wolf at wolfhalton.info
<wolf at wolfhalton.info> wrote:
> I thought I saw a few lightbulbs go on over the heads of the attendees
> during your talk.
> The canned simple classwork code cannot be as cool and memorable as real
> project code,
> so I got a lot out of the talk, too.
>
> Steven Blevins did his Opensource for newbies talk and Ron Frazier did a
> talk about
> dual-booting from a more windows-friendly position than what we usually
> get.  Changing the windows boot menu
> and booting from the windows side rather than letting GRUB handle it.  It
> was an  interesting event.
> The turn-out was about 60 people, and we had to break out to 2 rooms for the
> first time ever.
>
> Next time, I am going to see about having a student man the burning station,
> for people who want copies of distros we have run out of.
>
> -Wolf
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
> Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: [ale] ITT Linux Festival!
> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:47:37 -0400
>
> Another Day of Pizza has passed at ITT Tech.  I gave my talk on
> WxPython ( first presented May 2009 at the Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts).
>  It was I fear over the heads of many of the kids there, since the
> WxPython library makes heavy use of classes and inheritance in both
> its interface and its internals. But heck, at least I could give them
> a flavor of what actual working Python application code looks like, as
> opposed to the toy academic exercises they're doing.  I remember what
> a shock it was to hit datasets in the megabytes after working with
> groups of records small enough to load into one page of an editor in
> school.
>
> There was one kid there who had some C background and seemed to at
> least have hopes of becoming clueful. I wound up doing some wiki wiki
> OO tutorial on the whiteboard in the back corner and recommending the
> 2 great books for transitioning from C to C++:
> _C++:The_Core_Language_ ( Gregrory Satie, Doug Brown, O'Reilly Books,
> 1996), and _Effective_C++:50 ways to improve your Programs and Design
> ( Scott Meyers, Addison-Wesley, 1998).  I hope that the guy I talked
> to works through them.
>
> Wolf showed me the wonders of Puppy Linux 4.1, and I am quite
> impressed.  It's got a much spiffier GUI than the Puppy which I'm
> running my print server on.  I helped one of the guys there load the
> Pup onto a memory stick, and we discovered that syslinux ("mbr.bin")
> was really the way to go to make the stick properly bootable.  The
> whole OS took only 100 mb of file space.  I dunno if you can install
> Zope on it though.
>
> -- CHS
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