Installathon Presentations Spring 2011

Installathon Time Slots

Time	Name	Title	Brief Description
12:00	Andrew Meyer	Microcontroller Development on Linux	Setting up toolchains and development environments to do dev work for AVR and ARM MCUs.
12:30	Jacob Wiltse and Nick Trierweiler	Arch Linux	Comparing and contrasting Arch Linux with other distros, and going over my experiences with it.
13:00	Josh Knight	Intro to Blender	Getting started with 3D modeling/animation in Blender
13:30
14:00	Kaleb Elwert and Jay Vana	Generic RPG development	Trials and tribulations of a semi-non-professional 2D RPG development team. Also, a little about our work and experience with C, SDL, OpenGL, Glut, image loading, project management and Lua.
14:30	John Pastore	Installing MIDPssh	Stupid Shenanigans with a semi-modern Phone.
15:00
15:30
16:00
16:30

[Attempted] topics/suggestions from previous Installathons (for your inspiration)

• How to choose a Distro (panel)
• Intro to Linux Command Line
• Digital Rights Management
• Linux on tablet computers
• Desktop effects
• PFsense
• Basic linux
• Intro to Ubuntu
• Photoshop running with Wine
• Open Source Games
• Schemeing on the command line (scsh)
• Installing from a flash drive (debootstrap)
• Bash and Fortran
• Installing Linux on Playstation 3
• Installing Linux on Nintendo Wii
• History of Linux
• Homebrew PVR (MythTV)
• Linux Applications/Productivity Apps
• Firewall - Basic iptables (commandline)
• Internet Security
• Vim
• IPSEC
• Linux on the Desktop (Project Utopia)
• Perl
• LaTeX
• Webservers, PHP and mySQL
• Basic Samba Administration
• Ubuntu vs. Windows 7 : A comparison
• Computer Games in Wine
• NUXI's Security Theatre
• SSH Tips and Tricks
• Computer/Network Security(including wireless)
• Web applications/Scripting
• Your brilliant suggestion

Possible Event Ideas

• Bring in professors to talk about how they use Linux in research or in industry
• Bring in other orgs like AITP and PSG or Enterprises that can talk/show off how they've used Linux
• Offer things like programming help

Advertising

• Flyers in each building/labs where allowed
• Table tents in each cafeteria
• Email out to lug-l, pfrc-l, various classes of cs, cnsa, cpe, ee, other computer-related majors
• Visit classes and give a brief overview. Use it as an event to gain members
• EDS is free
• Film board advertising is cheap