Events

Looking for New Writers and Meet Us at SCaLE 16x

Jill Franklin — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 16:26:30 +0000

If you're interested in writing for us, we want to hear from you—or even better, here's a chance to meet us in person to discuss the possibilities.

If you're going to SCaLE16x, grab a beer with tech editor Kyle Rankin (@kylerankin) and talk about LJ writing opportunities at 6:30pm tomorrow (March 9, 2018) at The Yardhouse (300 E Colorado Blvd #220, Pasadena).

We're interested in articles on cool projects you've done with Linux/open source/RPi, etc. We'd also like tutorials/howtos, real-world stories, articles on using FOSS to do something unusual or large-scale. Other topics to consider: IoT, machine learning, AI, containers, security, Python—really anything Linux or open-source-related.

Again, we're always looking for new writers from the Linux community. If you have ideas, please send proposals to write@linuxjournal.com.

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Upcoming Events: February 2013

Carlie Fairchild — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:00:00 +0000

by Carlie Fairchild

Linux Journal is a proud media sponsor of several technical events in 2013. Below is a list of summits, conferences and trade shows in the month of February:

11th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
February 12, 2013 - February 15, 2013
San Jose, CA
USA
https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast13

The Android™ Builders Summit
February 18, 2013 - February 19, 2013
San Fransico, CA
USA
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/android-builders-summit

Embedded Linux Conference
February 20, 2013 - February 22, 2013
San Fransico, CA
USA
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference

SCALE 11x
February 22, 2013 - February 24, 2013
Los Angeles, CA
USA
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/

Query-Conferences
February 22, 2013 - February 23, 2013
Vienna, Austria
https://events.jquery.org/2013/eu

ConFoo Conference
February 25, 2013 - March 1, 2013
Montreal
Canada
https://confoo.ca

ApacheCon NA 2013
February 26, 2013 - February 28, 2013
Portland, OR
USA
https://na.apachecon.com/.

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O'Reilly Will Stream Android Open

Katherine Druckman — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:07:17 +0000

by Katherine Druckman

For those who can't make it to the first Android Open conference this October 9-11, you can catch the live video stream of keynotes, interviews, and wrap-up reports here.

See the full schedule at https://androidopen.com/android2011/public/schedule/grid

From O'Reilly:

Android Open is the first event to cover the entire Android ecosystem growing around this new superstar mobile platform. Android has already changed the game for the wireless industry and disrupted business as usual. Our speakers will show you where Android is today, and where it's going tomorrow.

Watch the feed right here (visible when it becomes available):

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Linux Audio Conference 2011: A Report From Maynooth

Dave Phillips — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:00:00 +0000

by Dave Phillips

On May 7 and 8 I attended the Linux Audio Conference for 2011 held in Maynooth, Ireland. Due to a temporary mental malfeasance - for some reason I assumed the Earth rotated in the opposite direction - I booked my flight for the wrong departure date and was unable to change its itinerary without paying out a hefty sum to the airline. So, on Saturday morning I arrived at NUI in Maynooth, completely out of sync with the local time zone and ready to pack four days worth of activity into two.

LAC 2011

Due to scheduling constraints it's impossible for anyone to attend all the presentations and demonstrations at the conference, so I didn't bother trying. I attended some of the scheduled presentations, but the bulk of my time was spent in inspiring conversations and casual meetings with friends old and new. Of course the talk focused on the conference events, related Linux audio news and stories, and where to find the best pubs in Maynooth.

Before all else I want to send a huge shout-out of thanks to Dr. Victor Lazzarini and his able crew at NUIM. As far as I could tell everything flowed smoothly from time slot to time slot with no logistical disasters. The presentations I attended were well-prepared and very enjoyable, thanks especially to the great efforts of the organizers.

Time worked against me, but I was able to catch Jeremy Jongepier's hands-on demonstration of his creative use of Linux audio software such as QTractor, Yoshimi, QSynth, and others; Joern Nettingsmeier's lecture on loudness metering and why it matters; an update on recent improvements to the Fluidsynth soundfont synthesizer; and Conor Dempsey's unveiling of the WADE system, a portal for on-line audio synthesis. Of course I missed a dozen other presentations, due primarily to those lively conversations that went on constantly in the halls at NUIM and at the restaurants and pubs in Maynooth.

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A Report From Beyond: Linux Sound & Music At Virginia Tech

Dave Phillips — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:00:00 +0000

by Dave Phillips

From April 7 through 9 I attended Beyond, a series of lectures, workshops, and concerts promoted by the DISIS group at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg VA. The festivities included presentations from Professor Brad Garton and Create Digital Music's Peter Kirn, plus some incidental ramblings from yours truly. The concerts featured performances by VT's own Linux Laptop Orchestra, accompanied at times by percussionist extraordinaire Ron Coulter and a group from the Boys And Girls Club of Roanoke. Other performances included improvisations with some unique hardware controllers (more about those performances below) and original works composed by the participants.

Brad Garton: A Man, His Books And Toys

Brad Garton is the director of the Computer Music Center at Columbia University. His involvement with electronic/experimental/computer music is extensive and rich with associations and accomplishments, and he continues to stay on the edge of new developments in music technology. His presentation at the DISIS fest included an improvisation with his own iRTCmix synthesis software running on an iPhone and controlled by a fascinating instrument called a Manta.

iRTCMix is a logical extension from Brad's RTCmix, an on-going collaborative project that adds realtime scheduling and other features to Cmix, a computer music language designed by composer Paul Lansky. While RTCmix and the original Cmix run on Linux, iRTCmix has been designed for use with Apple's iOS and its supported devices.

Brad demonstrated how iRTCmix can be used to provide synthesis and algorithmic composition capabilities to an application destined for an iPhone. Superficially it's a simple affair - you write your program on a host equipped with Apple's Xcode SDK and the iRTCmix library, connect your phone to your machine via USB, prototype your app and send it on to the external device. Brad's demos showed off some neat synthesis and GUI capabilities, but alas, the whole process depends on Apple's decidedly proprietary SDK, so Linux is barred from the shop. That process was interesting to observe, but I found as much fascination in Brad's account of his dealings with Apple.

Given the restrictions imposed by the hardware, Brad coaxed a lot of interesting sounds out of his applications. He agreed that programming for the iPhone and similar devices forces the programmer to attend to the hungry details of his or her code, harkening back to Ye Olden Tymes of "bumming" code in order to squeeze the most action out of very limited resources.

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DrupalCon Rocked Chicago

Katherine Druckman — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:00:00 +0000

by Katherine Druckman

DrupalCon has sadly come to a close. After three whirlwind days, I can say that the Drupal community is definitely going strong, and a few Drupal companies have some very interesting developments on the horizon.

This was the most content-heavy DrupalCon I've attended, so there were far more announcements, revelations and community pow-wows than I can possibly share with you, but I did pick up a few highlights.

The most interesting of these is Phase2 Technology's forray in to the "app store" model for Drupal enhancements. With the aid of a slick UI, users of Phase2's OpenPublic Drupal distribution will be able to discover and add functionality enhancements to their sites with a few clicks. While this has become the expected standard for mobile devices and now MacOS, this is very new territory for a CMS. By including an integrated app interface Phase2 seeks to vastly improve the usability of OpenPublic, and likely other distributions, by simplifying the process of adding complex functionality with modules and their dependencies, libraries, and features while also potentially facilitating a simplified installation of third-party service integration.

The ease of use and user interface improvements an app "store" or "console" would provide could be groundbreaking, and I doubt many would argue against such a step forward for usability. The more complicated part comes from considering a world where app servers are maintained apart from the community maintained drupal.org, and where a "store" could mean apps for a fee, both of which could come out of the apps model. Most reception of the announcements and demonstrations from Phase2 has been quite positive, but I expect to see at least a bit of controversy erupt, as the inevitable question of monetization always has that effect. Phase2 makes it clear that the idea of monetization is a bit premature in their eyes. In his blog post yesterday, Irakli Nadareishvili of Phase2 wrote:

We think paid open-source (GPL) apps have both significant opportunities, as well as challenges. Before we, in the community, can even discuss those, however, we have to first prove technical viability of installable apps in Drupal [distributions]. To quote Phase2's CEO Jeff Walpole: "iPhone App Store makes no sense if you don't have iPhone/iOS to begin with". At this point, for us, apps are all about usability and user experience: ease of finding, voting, vetting, installing and maintaining complex functionality in a CMS.

I think he makes an absolutely valid point, and I look forward to playing with the cool new UI before I read too much into the "store" concept.

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On My Way to DrupalCon!

Katherine Druckman — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:33:31 +0000

by Katherine Druckman

As you may have heard, Drupal's biggest annual event starts next week. This year's North American DrupalCon will draw an expected crowd over over 3000 attendees, and offer something for a wide variety of Drupalers and future Drupalers, as well as web developers and designers in general. I'm very excited about next week's event, as I believe it will offer some fantastic programming options, as well as provide a fitting venue to celebrate Drupal's 10th year.

As Drupal adoption and community participation continue to grow, the DrupalCon event has necessarily grown with the project and community. An event of this scope must satisfy not only the core Drupal developers, many of whom have been involved with the project for quite a few years, but also provide options for those new to Drupal, those evaluating Drupal, as well as the non-developer business audience. It's a tall order, but after speaking with one one of DrupalCon Chicago's organizers, George DeMet, Founder and CEO of Palantir, I have some pretty high expectations.

This year's event will include more peripheral events, which should cater to a wider audience than previous DrupalCons. For the first time, the expo portion of the event will feature a full day stage, and have a dedicated, separate space. It will be interesting to see how this will affect the overall feel of the event, but I do get the impression that there is emphasis on catering to a more business-oriented audience that may be used to more structured conferences and trade shows. There is a dedicated community track as well, which should help retain at least some of the intimate feel of a community-oriented event.

With the recent release of Drupal 7, and with some recent interesting moves within the Drupal community, it is certainly a fun time to get together with Drupalers. It's also a great time to get involved with the Drupal community if you are a LAMP developer looking for work. The demand for Drupal talent continues to grow, and with tons of content aimed at getting developers up to speed with Drupal 7, I'm thinking DrupalCon may be a pretty great place to be if you've been hit by the rough economic times we're all most likely still experiencing.

I am particularly interested to hear more about what the great minds at Phase2 Technology are up to. Their recent acquisition of Open Atrium, the Drupal-based intranet tool, has further legitimized Drupal as a product platform, and may prove to be yet another avenue for increased Drupal adoption in enterprise environments. I'm a bit of a fan of theirs, so I am anxious to see what they have on the horizon.

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