Re: Reminder! Meeting Tomorrow Thursday, Oct 10th, 2019: Topic: CAD on linux!
by Robert Schwein
Unfortunately I've taken on the roll of primary health care provider for
a family member. Sadly this means me coming to our WLUG meetings will
be sporadic at best. I miss the fun.
Bob
On 10/9/2019 10:26 PM, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote:
>
> Hey Everybody,
> We've got a meeting tomorrow!!!
> Date & Time: Oct 10th, 2019 at 7PM
> Location: WPI Rec Center Room Rom 412 (Class of '61 conference room)
> Topic: Round table on CAD software for linux.
>
> This month we're going to talk about the plethora of FOSS and
> otherwise options for doing Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) on linux.
> Logan Brown has offered to speak about OpenSCAD
> Frank Sweetser will be talking about TinkerCAD
> I will be talking about FreeCAD
> We'll also gloss over LeoCAD and a few other cad products as well.
> This is a round table, so if you have a piece of cad software on linux
> you love feel free to speak up!
>
> Refreshments and Snacks will be provided and afterwards we'll head off
> for dinner.
> Thanks,
> Tim.
>
> --
> I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
> constituents as "consumers".
>
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1 week, 5 days
Re: Reminder! Meeting Tomorrow Thursday, Oct 10th, 2019: Topic: CAD on linux!
by Keith Wright
Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes:
> Hey Everybody,
> We've got a meeting tomorrow!!!
> Date & Time: Oct 10th, 2019 at 7PM
> Location: WPI Rec Center Room Rom 412 (Class of '61 conference room)
Is the Rec Center the same as what my map calls
(31) Sports & Recreation Center, on the far west
of the quad overlooking the Alumni (football) Field?
-- Keith
> Topic: Round table on CAD software for linux.
>
> This month we're going to talk about the plethora of FOSS and otherwise
> options for doing Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) on linux.
> Logan Brown has offered to speak about OpenSCAD
> Frank Sweetser will be talking about TinkerCAD
> I will be talking about FreeCAD
> We'll also gloss over LeoCAD and a few other cad products as well.
> This is a round table, so if you have a piece of cad software on linux you
> love feel free to speak up!
>
> Refreshments and Snacks will be provided and afterwards we'll head off for
> dinner.
> Thanks,
> Tim.
1 week, 6 days
Reminder! Meeting Tomorrow Thursday, Oct 10th, 2019: Topic: CAD on linux!
by Tim Keller
Hey Everybody,
We've got a meeting tomorrow!!!
Date & Time: Oct 10th, 2019 at 7PM
Location: WPI Rec Center Room Rom 412 (Class of '61 conference room)
Topic: Round table on CAD software for linux.
This month we're going to talk about the plethora of FOSS and otherwise
options for doing Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) on linux.
Logan Brown has offered to speak about OpenSCAD
Frank Sweetser will be talking about TinkerCAD
I will be talking about FreeCAD
We'll also gloss over LeoCAD and a few other cad products as well.
This is a round table, so if you have a piece of cad software on linux you
love feel free to speak up!
Refreshments and Snacks will be provided and afterwards we'll head off for
dinner.
Thanks,
Tim.
--
I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
constituents as "consumers".
1 week, 6 days
WLUG Meeting: Oct 10th 2019 Topic: CAD on linux!
by Tim Keller
Hey Everybody,
We've got a meeting next week!
Date & Time: Oct 10th, 2019 at 7PM
Location: WPI Rec Center Room Rom 412 (Class of '61 conference room)
Topic: Round table on CAD software for linux.
This month we're going to talk about the plethora of FOSS and otherwise
options for doing Computer Aided Drafting on linux.
Logan Brown has offered to speak about OpenSCAD
Frank Sweetser will be talking about TinkerCAD
I will be talking about FreeCAD
We'll also gloss over LeoCAD and a few other cad products as well.
This is a round table, so if you have a piece of cad software on linux you
love feel free to speak up!
Refreshments and Snacks will be provided and afterwards we'll head off for
dinner.
Thanks,
Tim.
--
I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
constituents as "consumers".
2 weeks, 4 days
Re: Thanks for a great meeting last night!
by Keith Wright
John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes:
> It was a really fun meeting, bummer we didn't have
> the CAD discussion, but happy about the storage discussion.
After I got into a gun fight with the police it was
difficult to pay attention. They kept talking about
tera-bytes, but I am still a bit future-shocked
from when my ex-new-boss told me that the programs
I would be paid to write had to work with a giga-byte
of important data...and when I actually bought a mega-byte
for my own home.
Real programmers code for 64K.
> Subject: [WLUG] Becoming a brick-and-mortar Linux vendor
> From: Joshua Stone via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org>
>
> I've been wondering about with Linux as a desktop
> platform if one were to run a business around selling
> machines that're built with it in mind.
I had a similar idea about 20 years ago. I rented
a store-front in south-east Worcester and did it
for a few years. I didn't make much money, but
I didn't lose much either.
The remaining fragments of that business exist as
a web page:
http://www.free-comp-shop.com/
I used to have a book about starting a business
in Massachusetts, maybe I can find it.
It's probably far out of date.
You need to know the laws about collecting sales
tax and reporting and remitting to the state.
-- Keith Wright,
Programmer in Chief, Free Computer Shop
3 weeks, 6 days
Re: Thanks for a great meeting last night!
by John Stoffel
>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Klein via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes:
Richard> Shoot! I didn't have the meeting on my calendar! I'll add the next one now.
It was a really fun meeting, bummer we didn't have the CAD discussion,
but happy about the storage discussion.
1 month, 1 week
Re: Thanks for a great meeting last night!
by Richard Klein
Shoot! I didn't have the meeting on my calendar! I'll add the next one
now.
--
Rich
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 1:09 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org>
wrote:
> As usual at WLUG, we went off on a tangent and it was amazing.. What
> started out as a side conversation about storage technologies turned into
> 1.5 hour conversation about LVM / ZFS on Linux / Ceph / GlusterFS /
> Synology / FreeNAS / NetAPP and the general philosophies around managing
> scalable storage at home and in the enterprise!
>
> This conversation continued at the Boynton and was great fun!
>
> Next meeting is the 10th of October!
>
> Later,
> Tim.
>
> --
> I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
> constituents as "consumers".
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1 month, 1 week
Thanks for a great meeting last night!
by Tim Keller
As usual at WLUG, we went off on a tangent and it was amazing.. What
started out as a side conversation about storage technologies turned into
1.5 hour conversation about LVM / ZFS on Linux / Ceph / GlusterFS /
Synology / FreeNAS / NetAPP and the general philosophies around managing
scalable storage at home and in the enterprise!
This conversation continued at the Boynton and was great fun!
Next meeting is the 10th of October!
Later,
Tim.
--
I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
constituents as "consumers".
1 month, 1 week
September WLUG Meeting Announcement!
by Tim Keller
Hey Everybody,
We've got a meeting next week!
Date: September 12, 2019
Time: 7pm
Location: WPI Campus Center Mid-Century Room (rm 331) aka. the usual haunt
Topic: Tinkercad codeblocks and more!
I know that a few of us have tinkered with and enjoy using OpenSCAD.
However, for many users the learning curve is REALLY steep and this steep
learning curve has kept many users away from programmatic shape generation
for 3d modeling. Basically writing code to generate a shape.
At our last meeting Frank Sweetser showed off something really cool, which
is that Tinkercad has now integrated a "scratch" like language into
Tinkercad.
At this meeting someone will be giving a demo of this.
I think we would be remiss if we didn't talk about exFAT and Microsoft's
decision to open the patents on it. It *sounds* like we may have exFAT
becoming a first class citizen on linux. Is this Microsoft playing some
long game of embrace, extend, extinguish or are we moving towards some wild
convergence point? In that is the interesting conversation where we think
linux will be in another ten years and for that matter Microsoft.
As usual, snacks and refreshments will be provided and afterwards we'll
head off for dinner and fall deeper down the rabbit hole!
Later,
Tim.
WLUG President
--
I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
constituents as "consumers".
1 month, 2 weeks
Re: August WLUG meeting reminder!!
by Tim Keller
Keith,
If your up for it, I can pick you up at your house. Otherwise, we need to
up our streaming game!
In any case, I hope you feel better soon.
Later,
Tim.
On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 2:39 PM Keith Wright via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org>
wrote:
> Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes:
>
> > Hey fellow WLUG'ers!
> >
> > We've got a meeting this Thursday August 15th!
>
> Keep the faith. I had planned to be there,
> but I fell and sprained my ankle.
> Getting between the bed, bathroom, and armchair,
> is about all the moving I want to do.
>
> I haven't fogotten you and I hope to see you next month.
>
> -- Keith
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constituents as "consumers".
2 months, 1 week
