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Scratch or programming for kids
by Peter Reutemann 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Hi everyone Was just reading the following blog post on how to teach 4,500 students to program: http://computinged.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/teaching-4500-students-to-progr… And I came across MIT's "Scratch", a really cool platform (Linux, OSX, Windows) for teaching kids and students to program: http://scratch.mit.edu/ I heard about it a few years ago, when they first presented. It looks pretty cool! http://vimeo.com/4077929 Maybe the Raspberry Pi could be a device with Scratch pre-installed? Power up and program away? Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 25 Mar '12

25 Mar '12

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WlugCommitte will meet at 7pm before the main meeting starts Meet up at the university - usual meeting room for Monday meetings. Time: 7:30pm onwards http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4 A social meet up to catch up with other members and talk shop.

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WlugCommitte will meet at 7pm before the main meeting starts Meet up at the university - usual meeting room for Monday meetings. Time: 7:30pm onwards http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4 A social meet up to catch up with other members and talk shop.

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Sierra Wireless USB 308
by Bruce Kingsbury 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Sierra's website says this device is compatible with Linux. I did an install of Ubuntu 10.04 recently, and initially the Sierra USB thingy was working fine, but then it stopped. Fiddled around a little and I eventually got it to work again (I'm not sure that anything I did was actually responsible for this) but apparently it stopped working again shortly after I left. A few weeks later I upgraded all the packages, something I hadn't done during the install, and the device started working again. I rebooted the machine several times and each time the connection came up reliably soon after I connected the device. Now it's not working again. It's not working on my Debian machine either. But it works perfectly in any windows machine every single time, and I've carefully checked the APN, authentication and compression settings and made them the same under Linux (PAP only, no compression anywhere) but still no worky. Any suggestions?

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ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 18 Mar '12

18 Mar '12

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WlugCommitte will meet at 7pm before the main meeting starts Meet up at the university - usual meeting room for Monday meetings. Time: 7:30pm onwards http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4 A social meet up to catch up with other members and talk shop.

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Raspberry Pi group
by Peter Reutemann 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Hi everyone Since there seemed to be a fair amount of interest on the Raspberry Pi device, I've started a group on our elgg instance: http://elgg.wlug.org.nz/pg/groups/8002/raspberry-pi/ Feel free to join and contribute! :-) Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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A golden age of open source innovation?
by Peter Reutemann 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

"Open source's ability to innovate has been challenged many times. But Glyn Moody argues that open source innovation is actually going from strength to strength, creating new opportunities to deliver cheap computing to people corporations would not normally consider." http://h-online.com/-1470831 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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WLUG AGM
by Chris O'Halloran 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Hello All, 10 members turned up for the AGM last night and we have a new committee! Thanks to the past committee members who were not able to be present. John Billings, Sam Lin and Wayne Grimsey The new committee is President: Bruce Kingbury Vice President: Peter Reutemann Treasurer: Ronnie Collinson Secretary: Rene Bartosh Committee: Rod Aldridge Committee: Ian Stewart Committee: Chris O'Halloran The minutes will be posted shortly. In the meantime, would those on this list seeking to retain a membership with the club please consider renewing their membership financially. Online banking is obviously convenient 12-3122-0223054-00 See the following for additional details. The membership fee remains at $20. https://secure.wlug.org.nz/join.html Monies got towards room hireage, server costs, refreshments, printing, Coatsville Mansions etc. I would also like to acknowledge the continued support from the University and Rimu Hosting during last year. It was much appreciated. Chris O'Halloran 2011 WLUG President

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- !!!2011 AGM Agenda Approval of 2010 AGM minutes President's Report Treasurer's Report Election of Officers (Don't forget to do CommitteeHandover this year) General Business

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WLUG on twitter
by Peter Reutemann 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

Hi everyone First of all, WLUG now has a twitter account: http://twitter.com/#!/WaikatoLUG Secondly, I've enabled twitter support within WLUG's elgg instance (found at http://elgg.wlug.org.nz/) This means, you can - if you want to - publish your wire posts automatically on the WLUG twitter account. Here is a short description on how to enable this: http://elgg.wlug.org.nz/pg/blog/read/7993/twitter-support Happy tweeting! :-) Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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