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MHVLUG is proud to announce our December meeting:
Saving It All and then Figuring Out Where to Put ItLife with the Internet Archive and Archive Team The Internet Archive is a non-profit library in California but is working to take care of all the history and knowledge of the world, especially websites and books. Jason Scott, an employee of the Archive, as well as involved in many related projects, will give a quick-paced walkthrough of the ideas, considerations, and processes that the Internet Archive and activist group Archive Team use to save today for tomorrow and long beyond. Jason Scott runs the web site textfiles.com and created the Documentaries "BBS: The Documentary" (about Bulletin Board Systems), "Get Lamp" (about Text Adventure Games), and DEFCON (about a 20-year hacker conference). He is also behind the Twitter Account "Sockington the Cat" (@sockington) with over 1.3 million followers. He currently works for the Internet Archive (Archive.org/Wayback-Machine etc.) as a Free-Range Archivist. He is also Official Mascot of the "Archive Team", a group of "radical internet content preservationists", who try to copy and preserve as much as possible of the publicly accessible user generated content from web sites that are shutting down, often with very little warning. He was born in and currently lives in Hopewell Junction (after a 20-year stint in Westchester Country and Boston). Lightning Talks
The meeting will take place at 300 Rockefeller Hall, Vassar College on Wednesday, December 7th at 6 pm. What to ExpectThe meetings have a familiar cadence: setup, lightning talks, main talk, announcements, dinner.The meeting space opens up at 5pm for pre meeting general discussion, question asking, show and tell, and setup. All are welcome to join. If you are planning on using the projector for your lightning talk, please arrive at 5:30 to ensure we can work out any kinks with the projector prior to the meeting. We'll start the meeting with a series of lightning talks (up to 3), each 10 minutes or less on something Open Source or Linux related. It could be a fun new program, a book, a blog post, or really anything you think the wider MHVLUG community would find some interest in. If you would like to give a lightning talk at this or a future meeting please sign up here. The main talk is typically an hour with time for questions. After the main talk we'll do announcements of upcoming events of interest to our community, and provide some time for more informal discussion, before we head off to the Palace Diner for a post meeting hang out and discussion session. The topics typically wander the entire field of geeky subjects. All meetings are free and open to the public, and everyone from all levels of expertise and interest in Linux and Open Source Software are encouraged to attend (and bring a friend or two)! For more details, including maps and directions, please see the meeting page. Please RSVPShow your support for MHVLUG by RSVPing at our Meetup Page. |
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Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College * Dec 7 - Saving It All And Then Figuring Out Where To Put It Jan 4 - Jupyter Notebook Feb 1 - Home Assistant
