[PLUG-announce]November events

Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:58:53 -0700 (MST)

moin, moin,

here's a rundown for the events in November.

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This Thursday is the East Side meeting at Sequoia.

Event: East Side Meeting
Topic: Myth TV
Presenter: Eric Thelin
Location: Sequoia Charter School, 1460 S. Horne, Mesa, AZ 85204-5760
Time: 19:00 on Thursday, the 13th of November

Abstract:

MythTV is a project to build a homebrew PVR (a TiVo type device). It will
let you record and watch TV and even pause and rewind live TV. But that is
only the beginning. It also plays music, plays nearly any format of video
media, shows images, reports the weather, summarizes the news, plays DVDs,
and plays emulated games. Of course, like any other major project it is
dependant on many other projects to do most of the work. So the quickest
and possibly the best way to describe it is to say it is a project to turn
a Linux computer into a true multimedia appliance.

Bio:

Eric has been working with MythTV and other PVR projects for over a year.
He is the founder of the Arizona PHP Users group (AzPHP). He has contributed
small bits of code to a few projects including MythTV. He currently works at
Insight as a web developer.

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Monday and Tuesday next week the Scottsdale Symphony Orchestra opens their
season, which is co-sponsored by AZOTO. Please mention AZOTO when purchasing
tickets.

Event: Scottsdale Symphony Orchestra, http://www.scotsymph.org/
Program: Beethoven, Dvorak and Rachmaninoff
Location: Grace Chapel, 8524 E. Thomas Rd, Scottsdale AZ 85251
Time: 19:30 on Monday and Tuesday the 17th and 18th of November

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Tuesday next week is the GNU/Linux Stammtisch at a new location: The Muse
Cafe in Tempe.

Event: GNU/Linux Stammtisch
Location: The Muse Cafe/Artspace, 1032 S. Terrace Rd., Tempe, AZ 85281
Time: 19:00 to 23:00 on Tuesday the 18th of November

Bandersnatch has undergone changes that make it undesirable for hanging out
and talking. Join us at the Muse and decide for yourself if the new location
works.

Lemon and Terrace, just East of ASU's main campus.

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This month's West Side Meeting has not been finalized. The plan is to join
DeLUG ( DeVry's new LUG ) for their opener, but they haven't yet finalized
meeting details. In any case congrats to David, Steve, and the rest of DeLUG
for starting a new LUG! Watch the PLUG web site for details.

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AzPHP is Tuesday, the 25th. They don't yet know the topic because we've been
slavedriving Eric to work on the East Side Meeting this month :).

Event: AzPHP, http://www.AzPHP.org/
Topic: TBD
Location: Walt's TV & Home Theater, 55 W Southern Ave., Tempe, AZ 85282-4962
Time: 19:00 on Tuesday, the 25th of November

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Upcoming events:

Brian has promised to do a Blender presentation or three for us! Look for
those next year.

ASULUG is working towards their CrackFest at the beginning of next year. Not
quite a mini-DEFCON, but it should be quite interesting.

In March MySQL will have someone in town for a presentation to AzPHP.

ciao,

der.hans
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