Charm School is in session at Penguicon and you can participate! With Juju, services can be deployed, connected, upgraded and re-used by defining them as Juju charms. Come learn about Juju, charms, and how you can use it for the services you would like to see deployed to your private infrastructure or cloud providers like Amazon AWS or Openstack. Attendees can follow along by visiting
https://juju.ubuntu.com/CharmSchool to setup the Juju environment prior to the presentation.
Ever wonder if there was a method behind the madness of the Linux directory structure? What's /bin, /opt, /usr? Learn about the origins of these directories, what they were intended for, and what they're used for in modern Linux distributions.
A light hearted look at the evolution of organisms and their behavior (including those pesky humans), featuring videos and voluntary audience participation.
Come discuss the use, development, and future of using barcode scanning communication with database projects.
Continuous Integration (CI) has grown from simply building and testing software frequently, to a broadened reach into build, test, and deploy automation; deploys to VMs/""The Cloud""; and even predictive modeling. This presentation will cover history & elements of CI, implementation approaches, the rise and fall of some popular CI tools, and future direction. This topic is relevant to current trajectories in software engineering including Agile, DevOps, and large scale computing.
Diversification or Dilution of audience. What role should social Media play in the webcartoonist's world.
The first things you should learn how to use in a scene, before buying or using toys, are parts of your body, like your arms, feet, legs and hands. This not only saves money, but it insures that you'll always be prepared to play, as you'll always have these body parts with you. We'll discuss the different things you can do, and illustrate techniques with a "hands-on" demonstration. Class participation is encouraged.
Have you heard of April Divilbliss? How about Bob Bashara? Ever wondered if you'd be fined for violating zoning laws for opening a dungeon in your basement? Worried that you might lose your job if anyone at work found out who you were dating? Tried to figure out how far out of the closet you can safely get without risking your kids or your income? Then this is the panel for you.
The inspiration of George Lucas has captured the imaginations of generations, the most recent being our kids and grandkids. The brilliant spiritual allegory of The Star Wars Universe is perfect for our aim, thus, our brand new four-day kids' camp, Camp Luminous! Camp Luminous is completely unique, it is a rustic camp with outdoor kitchen and shower. Camping is in tents. Our counselors will be bunking near tents housing younglings and padawans. Our children are the future. What better way to help guide them toward a personal code of honor and self-empowerment, than through the greatest adventure of their summer! Jedi Masters Camron Rogers, David Kennedy and Mason Hunt will be sharing stories and discussing next years camp as well as answering questions about the camp. The participants will be making either force masks or bopper lightsaber.
When evaluating possible scenarios to leverage cloud computing, many companies immediately think about situations whichwould provide the most 'bang for the buck' in terms of operational costs for a specific goal or task. Creating disaster recovery sites generally involve doubling your technology costs in order to be prepared for the worst. With cloud computing though, resources can be staged and ready to go with paying only minimal costs until a disaster occurs. This presentation will go over a real-life scenario where a cloud disaster recovery plan was created and we'll discuss the strategy and math behind what makes the plan beneficial. Also covered will be concerns with going this route and why cloud computing in not a panacea despite what marketing companies may want you to believe.
What does GPS Technology, Nature, and PIRATES have in common? well come on down and learn all about the awesome world of Geocaching! A modern day treasure hunt using GPS technology. We will disscuss what it is and how to get started. as well as give helpful hints and tips!
Presenting a number of unusual materials that are being developed or are starting to be used in buildings to improve performance, especially energy performance. Possible items to discuss include: controllable glass, home energy generation appliances & home energy storage, insulation materials, processes for preserving wood for exterior use, alternatives and variants of concrete, wood-based plastics. Not necessarily a checklist of things you can buy and install today, but an introduction to some of the possibilities and the technology being used to create interesting materials that have application for homeowners as well as hardware hackers.
Git is a popular open-source distributed revision control system created by Linus Torvalds to manage the Linux kernel. You can use Git to manage or back-up personal projects, class work and resources, local or system-wide configuration files, websites, and more. Git users of all levels of experience should find something of value in this talk, which will cover a brief history of Git, simple usage, core concepts, how to share and work with others using Github, tools for popular operating systems, and practical developer, non-developer and ops usage examples.
A look at the popular RTS game
Panel discussion with the Ubuntu Michigan Loco about what's new with Ubuntu 12.04 (aka Precise Pangolin). This is a long-term release from Canonical and the Ubuntu Community, and promises to be the most thoroughly reviewed release of Ubuntu yet! "Ubuntu's 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) release shipped this weekend, and the Ubuntu US Michigan Loco would love to tell you about it. Join us for this informal panel discussion about the latest and greatest features of Ubuntu 12.04, including the Head's Up Display (HUD), and why 12.04 is the most thoroughly tested Ubuntu distribution yet."
Jeff used to be big. Now he's not. He'll talk about how he lost 100 pounds in a year and did it without wanting to blow his brains out. By mixing math and science with his personal story, he'll provide motivation and starting points for those that also want to slim up a bit.
Quick bullet-point run-through of IPv6 basics, and running a server on an IPv6 network. Includes: system security, diagnostic tools, and software and service compatibility (Email, Web, DNS, SIP. Internet access.)
Learn the basics of belly dance! This lesson will include the stomach roll broken down into easy-to-learn steps.
IPv6 Software pitfalls including connecting and listening, and hostname resolution, plus a look at the currently existing IPv6 software stacks available.
What is real, what is not, could this really happen?
Come and join other like and unalike minds to dicuss the best and worst of Android Apps available today.
The Green Porno videos are a graphical representation of the sex lives of creatures big and small, done with a mix of puppetry and costuming by the incomparable Isabella Rossellini. We're going talk about why these films are important, and, if the internet allows, watch a few!
\Whether it’s your first toy bag, or additions to your current, come get some fun and economical tips and tricks and possibly some new pervertables for your entertainment. Along with the standard floggers, rope, paddles and canes, there is a world of toys just waiting to be discovered. Home Depot and Dollar Tree is considered by many to be the Kinkster's holy ground of pervertable toys. Lets see just how many you have thought of and in what different ways they can be used.
If you've ever talked to a commercial vendor about installing a PBX or a call center ACD system, your first question has probably been, "Um... how much?" Whether it is a $100,000 office phone system or a three million dollar call center platform, vendor solutions are expensive! Come talk to a leading industry expert who used to sell million dollar call center systems but is now bucking this trend by integrating open source solutions next to and in lieu of expensive legacy commercial systems. He will talk about the current state of open source telephony in the enterprise, integrating closed source next to open source, "Hyper SIP", and where you can have instant savings in your company.
Computers aren't the first thing that people think of when they think of Antarctica, but scientific research wouldn't be possible without them. Living and working at the South Pole has changed over the 50 years of the U.S. Antarctic Program, and over that time, so has the reliance on computers to make it all possible.
A system of accomplishing small, daily tasks that lead up to huge achievement. The motto of this system is a J.R.R. Tolkien quote "Little by little, one travels far..."
Come and sit in on an open discussion with the community of MMO players that attend Penguicon. We talk about game mechanics, recent releases, what games and companies to look out for, and how to better your MMO life.
Are you a bit crazy? Want to try and run IPv6 in the home? Mike will take a look at hardware support, Internet connectivity plus firewalls and system compatibility.