Meeting-notes

Notes from RugbyLug meetings

The Rugby Lug operate a quarterly rota in order to provide:

• a social to decide on a suitable project to work on and discuss it
• a project session to hack on the chosen project (could be >1 session)
• a quarterly, dedicated tech talk evening to share knowledge about the project or any other relevant topic

This repo is used to store notes relating to meetings and projects.

Project proposals

• Linux from Scratch: Anyone who is an expert with Linux should have built LFS
• NextCloud installation
• Open (Community) Data
• Community weather/traffic reporting
• Mesh networking

Talk proposals

• OpenChain/Hyperledger
• Efficiency/productivity hacks
• bash/zsh completion
• eBus Boiler Monitoring
• Nextcloud
• Virtualisation (OpenStack/Ganetti/KVM/libvirt/virt-manager)
• Securing your Linux: 2FA, strong SSH config, other measures
• http://plaintextaccounting.org/ with a focus on https://ledger-cli.org in particular
• productivity with GDB, content is flexible and could be split over more sessions if there's interest:
  • debugging multithreaded/multiprocess applications
  • debugging Python applications with GDB
  • automation (scripting GDB with Python)
  • how to extend GDB - it's easy! (pretty printers, frame filters, new helper commands)
• tool-assisted refactoring and backporting in C (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
• can help with an SSH session/talk as well
• explanation of various (distributed) algo, UNIX(POSIX) topics if there's interest

Activity proposals

Software Freedom Day

Software Freedom Day [1] falls annually on the 3rd Saturday of September. We haven't had an event for a few years now, but it might be a good time to consider having another as projects have further matured and gained more share (e.g. Raspberry Pi, Scratch, 3D printing, Nextcloud, LibreOffice, the browser ecosystem, ...)

This year's event may also provide an opportunity to work on material (Odoo, virtualisation, ...) that may additionally be of interest to participants in the Coventry & Warwickshire Business Festival [2], which occurs 19-30th November.

[1] https://www.softwarefreedomday.org [2] https://www.cwbusinessfestival.com