The February meeting will take place on the 2nd of Feb. We are in our usual place (Building 59, Southampton University), and start at 1pm.
There is no firm plan of talks etc., but if anyone wants to give a talk or demo, we can do it on an ad-hoc basis as we did in January. There will be a Raspberry PI available to play with, as last month.
Chris Malton will (hopefully) give a three-part talk covering the following:
- Technology in sport
- Real-time Python
- The basics of Raspberry Pi and Media (and why you should, or shouldn't!)
And there are also offers of other short talks:
- Rich Bensley – Starting with MySQL
- Tim B – From Windows 7 to Linux – Basic setup and CLI (on request).
And as per usual please – if you want internet access – then please mail Chris Malton with your MAC addresses by Wednesday next week (that's the 30th). (In fact MACs can now be sorted out on the day, but it's still easier if you can email them beforehand.)
The Mountbatten Atrium North entrance is currently shut due to a safety issue. Please use the Mountbatten South entrance this weekend. Signage will be in place accordingly.
Today's was an excellent meeting. Sixteen members were involved in some deep discussions, so much so that the talks didn't get started until about 3pm.
Then Rich Bensley took us through the steps to install an ACID-compliant MySQL server: something I've never looked into because I just rely on 'aptitude install mysql' to set things up for me.
And Chris Malton, with experience of the technical stuff behind the scoreboards at the Olympics, talked about his Raspberry Pi-based system for keeping score at paintball matches.