Talks

IndieWeb by Myles Braithwaite

IndieWeb is a set of principles and building blocks for you to independently maintain your social data on your own web domains rather than on large, centralized social networking services. Myles' will be disucssing how to setup your own IndieWeb compitable website.

GitAnnex by Chris Browne

git annex is a file synchronizer that uses Git to manage its metadata and to help provide synchronization infrastructure. I'll give an introduction and description of some common use cases.

Unison by Alex Volkov

Unison is a file synchronizer fior OSX, Unix and windows, it allows two replicas of a file or files to be changed independently, then brought up to date by propagating changes. I'll give a short introduction and common use cases for the program.

Location

George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre at Ryerson University

245 Church Street, Room 203 (second floor).

Schedule

  • 7:30 pm Meeting and presentation.
  • 9:00 pm After each meeting a group of GTALUGers move to the The Library/ The Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St East) for beer and more socializing.

Code of Conduct

We want a productive happy community that can welcome new ideas, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between individuals with differing needs, interests and skills.

We gain strength from diversity, and actively seek participation from those who enhance it. This code of conduct exists to ensure that diverse groups collaborate to mutual advantage and enjoyment. We will challenge prejudice that could jeopardize the participation of any person in the community.

The Code of Conduct governs how we behave in public or in private whenever the Linux community will be judged by our actions. We expect it to be honored by everyone who represents the community officially or informally, claims affiliation, or participates directly. It applies to activities online or offline.

We invite anybody to participate. Our community is open.

We encourage you to read the complete Code of Conduct before attending the meeting.