Installathon Presentations Spring 2011
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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