Charleston, SC Linux Users Group

There is a special LUG presentation from the Vice President of Quality, Radha Kuchibhotla, at BenefitFocus. He will talk about the importance of software quality.

Time: 6:30pm
Place: BenefitFocus
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Benefitfocus...
Date: 2010-07-28
Food: Pizza Provided!

Presenter Bio:

Radha Kuchibhotla | Vice President of Quality

I've recently been working on a tty (serial) connection for R (the GNU statistical programming language http://www.r-project.org). The patch I'm working on (see my post here http://biostatmatt.com/archives/112 allows the user to make a connection to a serial port via the POSIX (Linux, Mac OS X) tty interface. This means that we can use R to control and collect data from devices that have a UART, like a microcontroller (Arduino!).

http://www.charlestonruby.org/

Our first meeting on January 21 was a great success. With 22 attendees, we first introduced ourselves and had quite a spread of experience with Ruby. We then discussed goals of the group, which included communication among members, educational presentations at meetings, local promotion of Ruby, and open source contribution. We then briefly discussed Ruby and some of its related tools.

This meeting may not have a formal presentation but the subject matter will focus on OpenCV and Adruino. OpenCV is a well known computer vision package. OpenCV is in use in factories for quality control measures, guiding autonomous vehicles in the DARPA Challenge, tracking blobs for touchscreen devices, and many other uses. Arduino is an open source electronics platform made for hobbyists. There are a lot of projects featuring Arduino.

OpenCV: http://www.opencv.org/
Arduino: http://www.arduino.cc/

Presenter: Anthony Canino
Time: 1pm
Date: 20100213
Place: West Ashley Muddy Waters

Summer pyGames is a collaborative effort between FIRST Robotics Team342 and CSCLUG. Sparked by Travis Axtell the event united a number of people with various talents to create phenomenal software along with the promise of continuing the event this summer. The end result:

http://70.145.83.60/csclug/Balloons-1.xo