[mdlug] BerkeleyTIP Feb 7 Sat Global Meeting - Ekiga3, Asterisk, KDE, GPGPU, Debian Edu, GStreamer

[john_re]

** Great talks this meeting: (live & on video) **
Ekiga3, Asterisk, GPGPU, GStreamer, Debian Edu,
HowTo Present KDE at meetings
http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/

Join from anywhere via VOIP conference,
with the friendly, educational, productive, BerkeleyTIP people.  :)
Join the #berkeleytip freenode.net IRC channel for help getting your
VOIP working.
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Programming Party: Whatever you want to work on, or group VOIP
technology.


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*****  FEB 7 SCHEDULE  (California PacificStandardTime = -8h GMT)  *****
Time   Activity & Talks
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10 A   Setup. Installfest begin. IRC & VOIP online
11     Ekiga 3 VOIP HowTo - Live from India
12 N   Asterisk Free Software Telephone System
 1 P       "
 2     GPGPU - General Purpose computing w/ Graphics Processing Units
 3         "
 4     Debian Edu - 100% in main
 5     **  5 Minute Lightning Talks  **
       GStreamer Multimedia Framework
 6     HowTo Rock the Show with KDE
 630   - Cleanup

[Adjust for your local time:  10AM - 6:30PM PST = 1PM - 9:30PM Eastern
= 6PM - 2:30AM GMT]

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Ekiga 3 VOIP HowTo Install - Chaitanya Mehandru -  1h
Live - Most distros only have version 2

The Asterisk Free Software Telephone System - Paul Charles Leddy - 1h23m
http://nylug.org/meetings/index.shtml?20081000 

GPGPU - General Purpose GPUs - John Stone - 1h43m
http://www.archive.org/details/clug-28-10-2008-gpu-computing

Debian Edu 100% in main - Holger Levsen - 1h
https://penta.debconf.org/dc8_schedule/events/286.en.html

GStreamer Multimedia Framework - Richard Spiers - 42m
http://www.archive.org/details/clug-30-09-2008-gstreamer

How to rock the show with KDE - Lydia Pintscher - 30m
http://akademy.kde.org/conference/presentation/42.php
- "How to present the KDE project at a conference."


**  Download the talk videos you want to see the day _before_ the
meeting, so your internet connection is free to do VOIP, & not consumed
with the video download.  :)


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