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[OCLUG-Tech] Re: [oclug-announce] January Meeting: Linux at White Wind Zen Community, Nokia Linux PDAs and Cell Phone Integration

  • Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] Re: [oclug-announce] January Meeting: Linux at White Wind Zen Community, Nokia Linux PDAs and Cell Phone Integration
  • From: hzhang [ at ] crc [ dot ] ca
  • Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:13:48 -0500
Hi Ian,

Is RSVP necessary for a meeting like this?

Thank you!


Quoting Ian Ward <ian [ at ] excess [ dot ] org>:

> http://oclug.on.ca/
> OCLUG usually meets on the first Tuesday of every
> month at 7pm, this month we are meeting the second Tuesday
>
> Date: January 8, 2008 at 7 p.m.
> Location: Algonquin College (Woodroffe Campus), room T117
>
>
> Transition of a Charitable Organization from Proprietary to Open Source
> Software
> Speaker: Ven. Chunen Rampal, ino
>
>
> The Experiences of White Wind Zen Community, Ottawa, Ontario
> This presentation will profile the computer and IT usage and support
> characteristics at Dainen-ji, also known as the Zen Centre of Ottawa,
> the training monastery of White Wind Zen Community; and the transition
> from proprietary to Open Source Software. The usage characteristics will
> include types of services such as e-mail, messaging, archiving,
> files-sharing, printing, multimedia editing and web-hosting; and support
> characteristics will include hardware maintenance, software license
> management, anti-spam and anti-virus controls, user data backup and
> restore, and system re-imaging and build times.
>
> White Wind Zen Community: http://www.wwzc.org/
>
> About the speaker:
> Ven. Chunen Rampal provides Computing and IT support at the Zen Centre
> of Ottawa. He is always searching for ways to provide access to the
> Teachings of Zen Master Anzan Hoshin using non-proprietary formats, and
> increase reliability for the end-users.
>
>
> Integrating Nokia Linux based PDAs (Nokia 770 in my case) with cell
> phones Speaker: Dmitriy Korovkin
>
>       * GnomeVFS - a library which provides universal access to a wide
>         range of devices including Bluetooth cellphones.
>       * Kartoteka - an address book application. It allows you to manage
>         your contacts database and import/export them to/from your cell
>         phone. Uses ObexPutter. Derived from Contacts developed by
>         OpenHand, but Kartoteka is more (and more) Maemo integrated.
>       * ObexPutter - a program that sends files to other bluetooth
>         devices by using OBEX Object Push Profile.
>       * Cell Phone Tool - a program that let's you dial your bluetooth
>         cell phone, send sms messages, etc. This software has it's roots
>         in Phone Link, but now it has many differences.
>
>
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