[clue] Speaker ideas.

[Gary Romero]

I'd be happy to show of my RPi's and some of the small things I've been
working on with them.

-Gary


On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:46 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us>wrote:

> So at the meeting last night I got some ideas for future talks.  Since
> some things had to be done to
> get set up it sparked lots of "what about this" that not everyone was
> familiar with.
>
> If nobody says anything I probably won't get around to doing anything with
> them so let me know what
> you think:
>
> - We set up our own LAN.  That meant DHCP (but really APIPA or even
> by-hand addresses would have
> been fine).  Thankfully we had a windows box to provide that ;-)  It also
> turned out we had boxes
> that didn't have wireless and needed to install packages.  Since I did a
> talk one time (a *really*
> long time ago that included a "build a router in one slide" slide, I made
> my box a router.  It's
> harder now because we needed NAT (don't know if McAfee's wifi runs a
> routing protocol--probably not)
> but it worked.  We didn't have any dynamic DNS so we did hosts files (and
> not even via FTP so it was
> painful).
>
> So the thought is to have a talk/demo/hands on about that.  We should
> document what we do so it can
> be replicated if we do a similar private LAN for other talks.  I think DNS
> would be the hard
> part--DHCP and routing are easy but since WINS has been around since last
> century we should figure
> out the right way to do it.
>
> That's a talk I could give if no one else wants to (so be sure that when
> you vote for this topic you
> also vote whether you want a different speaker) :-)
>
> - Gary has 3 Rapsberry Pis.  If we twist his arm he might bring one for us
> to look at/play
> with/something.  I told him that just showing one was a good start and
> that he could easily work on
> something he hadn't had time for and we'd be happy to watch.  (Of course
> there would be lots of
> "what are you doing with it" and "did that work" questions to fill the
> time.)
>
> - I know someone who knows Jenkins (continuous integration) and could do a
> demo.
>
> - There were some other ideas that came right at the end so if you
> remember them, pipe up.
>
> Thanks!
> Dave
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-- 
Gary Romero
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