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What is Open Source?

It's not public domain. Is it free software? Well, free has too many meanings. Open Source is copyrighted software that the author makes available under certain licenses that grant the user certain freedoms. Read more about it all at OpenSource.org.

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Open Source News

  • IBM’s Red Hat Just Killed CentOS as we Know it: With CentOS Stream, Stability Goes out of the Door
    RIP CentOS
  • Supercharge your ‍Jupyter workflow An open source tool for creating data science pipelines. Get started
    Still early, but shows promise. Visual pipeline building tool. 
  • Let's make music with a free, cross-platform tool for your computer.
    Open source, cross platform music platform
  • Room Acoustics Software
    opensource for mac, pc and linux
  • We Tested OpenPilot, the $1,199 Device That Adds Entry-Level Autonomy to Your Car
    Level 2, and only some cars. Interesting nonetheless. 
  • Virtual singing has never sounded so sweet! A low latency solution for your ensemble.
    Low latency open source audio
  • How To Synchronize Files With Unison On Linux
    looks like a cross-platform rsync wannabe
  • The M17 Project
    “The goal here should be to kick the proprietary protocols off the airwaves, replace DMR, Fusion, D-Star, etc. To do that, it’s not just good enough to be open, it has to be legitimately competitive.”
  • The Best Alternatives to WordPress
    Options by use-case. 
  • Poor Man's Tools that are actually awesome!
    Not quite the functionality of the higher-priced options, but.. 
  • Configure Fedora to practice and compose music
    music composition
  • Welcome to DeepSpeech’s documentation!
    an open source speech-to-text suite. 
  • Introducing Teleport 4.3 - Modern Replacement for OpenSSH
    Drop in replacement for ssh? We'll see. 
  • VituixCAD
    VituixCAD is free engineering and simulation software for passive and active multi-way / multi-driver loudspeakers.  One of the more comprehensive I've seen.
  • HonKit Toolchain Documentation
    honkit is a command line tool (and Node.js library) for building beautiful books using GitHub/Git and Markdown (or AsciiDoc).

Laravel

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There's a new Laravel meetup group in Atlanta - see http://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-Laravel/ and https://twitter.com/atlantalaravel.
 
Also, the existing Alpharetta Laravel/PHP group is having a reboot (and is also meeting tomorrow, Jan. 27th), so check them out at http://www.meetup.com/Alpharetta-PHP/.
 

PostgreSQL Group Forming

  • database,

My favorite open source database might be getting it's own meetup group. From today's inbox:

We are a group of PostgreSQL enthusiasts interested in fostering a PostgreSQL community in Atlanta, so that we can share our knowledge about PostgreSQL and related projects, and create a network for those seeking PostgreSQL-related employment.

See their Meetup.

 

New Alpharetta Rails Meetup

Looks like more of a coding support or study group, there's a new Alpharetta Rails Meetup forming. Please check them out. There's been some pushback on Ruby lately, some claiming that the number of new gems being committed is dwindeling, but a lot of people still like it and use it on a daily basis.

ALE and ALE-NW Update

In today's mailbag from JD:

Hope you don't mind this email ... you asked for feedback, but I didn't see any
way to contact you through the website.

ossatlanta.org - article " Tough Times for *nix Users' Groups".

ALE-NW only meets with SPSU students are there. That's August - May.
It is planned.
It is announced on the ALE email listsrv.

3 yrs ago, we held meetings in the summer and turnout was too low to maintain
it. We are flexible. ;)

The ALE.org content is NOT well maintained. The only way to know what is really
happening is to sign up for the email lists http://ale.org/?page_id=5. The mail
email list has 20-50 messages a day. It is fairly active about Linux-related
technology.

There are other Linux groups around the metro area.  The GA-400 Linux Group
meets weekly at I-285 and Powers Ferry. 4-10 people attend. Heck, there were 8
people there on Easter!
For more groups: http://blog.jdpfu.com/2013/06/03/lugs-atlanta-area-linux-groups

However - you are not wrong with the premise that Linux is becoming a standard
thing. Other groups that historically would be part of the LUG have spawned
their own meetings - OpenStack, Asterisk, Python, Ruby, Perl, Drupal, OWASP, and
those are just off the top of my head.

I completely understand why UNIX groups concentrate on HA and extremely large
scale - the lower-end has been taken over by Linux solutions. It is amazing what
a $5K Linux box can accomplish these days.

FYI - ALE-NW meetings for the '14-15 school terms:

Meetings 2nd Thursday of the Month (Starting in Sept):
    8/28 - Mini-How To and SPSU Organization
    9/11 - TBD
    9/20 - InstallFest - Saturday 10am-5pm
    10/9 - TBD 4th Anniversary!
    11/13 - TBD
    12/11 - Solstice / GPG Keysigning

2015 Meetings
    1/8 - TBD
    2/12 - TBD
    3/12 - TBD
    4/9 - TBD
    5/14 - TBD

Feel Free to contact either me or Jim Kinney for ALE questions.

Atlanta 3D Group

There's a new meetup forming for all things around 3D printing. See the Atlanta 3D Group page at meetup. It's just forming, but there seems to be a lot of buzz around 3D printing in town. Not strictly open source, but a lot of 3D printing seems to use open source tools.

Google Developer Group

Google's isn't strictly open-source, but they contribute a lot to the open source community. Freeside Atlanta has a new subgroup for Google Developers that cover topics like polymer.js, html5, etc. Check them out.

Geekspace Gwinnett Moves In

The region's latest makerspace, Geekspace Gwinnett now has a home and is building out. I went to one of their regular Tuesday Open House events last night. They're in the building out phase. So far they have Wifi and workbenches with a couple of older osciliscopes. In the back shop area are a couple of drill presses, an old Craftsman table saw in need of a tune-up, a small metal lathe, cutoff saw and scrollsaw. A milling machine is in the works as soon as moving equipment can be arranged. All in all, about a dozen people showed up and the space has great promise. So come out to one of their events and learn more.

Dart Meetup Forming

There's a new Northeast Georgia Dart meetup group forming. If you're not familiar with it, Dart is an open-source web programming language that compiles to JavaScript and is supported by Google. If you're interested in web programming, check them out.

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