PLUG Meeting for October 12th
Ed Nicholson will present "onBoarding for 4 free
resources: Archive.org, MusicBrainz, OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia"
&
Stephen Partington: LVM Cache Round 2, now with some real use
For more info,
Meeting time and location see:
Ed Nicholson: onBoarding for 4 free resources: Archive.org,
MusicBrainz, OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia
This presentation is 4 mini-presentations, each about you getting
set up to contribute to free public digital assets.
onBoarding Archive.org - Get your library card to over 306 Billion
web pages and have a place to host your own digital artifacts. And
then, there is the WayBackMachine.
onBoarding MusicBrainz - Join the Open Misic Encyclopedia, the free
and open source for music information and identification. Add your
knowledge to MusicBrainz and have MusicBrainz annotate, update, and
correct your music collection's meta data.
onBoarding OpenStreetMap - A map of the world, and you can make it a
map of your world. join OSM and start mapping your roads, trails,
cafés, railway stations, etc... developer? want to use OSM data?
visit Mapbox.com for access and tools and community.
onBoarding Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit,
if you sign up for a log-in! Have something you want to follow?
Doing research? Company or Organization data sheet? Sign up and get
it into Wikipedia.
About Ed:
I have been involved with Free Software and how people,
organizations and populations use, create and experience
information. I enjoy The Prescott National Forest as my "office" and
The Valley of The Sun as a home away from home. Personal systems run
either Fedora, Project Atomic, Android or OpenBSD.
Stephen Partington: LVM Cache Round 2,
now with some real use.
Having Presented the LVMcache in using an SSD to speed up your
system, single disk, or array some time ago, this will be a follow
up with the real time experience and use of LVMcache and its
application in day to day use.
About Stephen:
20+ years of Technology, Almost as many of that with at least some
level of supporting or using Linux desktops and servers. Into
gaming, Technology, Mobile devices, Linux, Photography and Maybe
soon Blacksmithing.
The meeting will start at 7pm at The Desert Breeze
Substation. People start arriving as early as 6pm, so if you would
like to help setup and/or chat for a while, arrive a little early.
We will go for food to BJs at the Chandler Fashion Center Mall
after the meeting so we can chat with each other comfortably.
Please feel free to join us. Please come even if you aren't
hungry, the food is not mandatory.
See you there,
Brian Cluff