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Unix in Bahrain - Bahrain Polytechnic Presentation

December 15, 2011 - 1:29pm — marwan

Marwan AlSabbagh will be giving a talk at Bahrain Polytechnic to a large group of students who are taking an Introduction to Unix Systems course. The presentation will cover the following topics:

  • Personal history and experience in using Unix systems
  • Market share of Unix systems in different sectors
  • Unix usage in Bahrain in the Private and Public sector will be discussed
  • Overview of bash scripting for desktop and server usage
  • Run through a real world bash script used to synchronize MySQL databases between servers
  • Present a real life case for script optimization that led to a 10x speedup
  • Show advanced command line tools:
  • htop: an interactive text-based process viewer
  • pv: text-based progress visualizer that presents progressbar, IO speeds and ETA
  • pbzip2: a mutli-process command line program that can perform bzip2 compressions
  • Five of my favorite one liner bash commands that do everything from encryption and data wiping to photo resizing

The expected turn out is between 50 to a 100 students, these are the number of students taking this course. We also welcome anyone interested in the presentation to come attend as well. The talk will be held on Tuesday 20th December from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM. Please contact me if you are interested in attending the talk. You may use the contact us form on our website if you don't have my email address.

LUG June 2011 Meeting - A New Direction

May 30, 2011 - 3:20pm — marwan

Our next LUG meeting will be on 4:00PM Saturday, June 4th at the Al Ayam Media Center(for directions see Al Ayam Media Center Directions). the topic will be as follows:

A New Direction

   I'm very happy to announce that the LUG is back! we will be having our next meeting this weekend. A number of core members in the LUG have met up and reviewed the direction and focus of the LUG. After much brainstorming and discussion we are happy to announce that we have decided to widen the scope of the group to include many more activities and topics. With the new direction also comes a new identity. We plan to call the group "Open Source Bahrain", to reflect the spirit of covering all things open source even if they don't happen to be Linux related. We have worked hard to put our vision into words through a Statement of Strategic Intent which you can find at http://linuxbahrain.com/strategic_intent.
   In this upcoming meeting we plan to present the new strategy and to have an open discussion about our new direction with all the members. We invite you all and anyone you think might be interested in joining and expanding Open Source Bahrain. I'd like to thank all the hard work and effort of all the guys who helped forge this new direction and strategy. We are all looking forward to executing it and making it a reality.

Event Date: 
June 4, 2011 - 4:00pm

LUG January 2011 Meeting - 10 years of Wikipedia

January 7, 2011 - 11:17am — marwan

Our next LUG meeting will be on 3:30PM Saturday, January 8th at the Al Ayam Media Center(for directions see Al Ayam Media Center Directions). the topic will be as follows:

10 years of Wikipedia

 We will cover a brief history of wiki's themselves and a brief history of wikipedia over the past decade. There will also be a discussion of some of wikipedia's sister projects and some of the potential future projects of wikipedia. The presentor will be Marwan AlSabbagh. Rakan Rabayah will also be giving a brief summary of the new features and changes that are going to happening to the Linux Bahrain website.

Event Date: 
January 8, 2011 - 3:30pm

LUG December 2010 Meeting - Powerful Plone

December 8, 2010 - 2:42pm — marwan

Our next LUG meeting will be on 3:30PM Saturday, December 11th at the Al Ayam Media Center(for directions see Al Ayam Media Center Directions). the topic will be as follows:

Powerful Plone

Plone is an open source CMS that can be used for any kind of website, including blogs, internet sites, webshops and internal websites as well as a document publishing system and groupware collaboration tool.
to be Presented by Pasquazzo Dimitri

Event Date: 
December 11, 2010 - 3:30pm

LUG November 2010 Meeting - Plone, Android and Gimp

November 10, 2010 - 9:04am — marwan

Our next LUG meeting will be on 3:30PM Saturday, November 13th at the Al Ayam Media Center(for directions see Al Ayam Media Center Directions). the topic will be as follows:

Plone, Android and Gimp

Three great mini-presentations will be presented on three different topics and by three different presentors. Come and enjoy the technological buffet.
 

Custom ROMs on the Nexus One
How to install custom ROMs on the Nexus One and various other Android devices, as well as the features and advantages that come with them.
Presented by Rakan Rabayah

Plone - a Python based Content Management System
Plone is an open source CMS that can be used for any kind of website, including blogs, internet sites, webshops and internal websites as well as a document publishing system and groupware collaboration tool.
Presented by Pasquazzo Dimitri

Gimp Image Editing
A brief demo of some common image operations that can be done in gimp. A nautilus script will also bo shown on how to do some convenient image resizing
Presented by Marwan Alsabbagh

Event Date: 
November 13, 2010 - 3:30pm

LUG October 2010 Meeting - 10 Great Commands

October 7, 2010 - 1:18am — marwan

Our next LUG meeting will be on 3:30PM Saturday, October 9th at the Al Ayam Media Center(for directions see Al Ayam Media Center Directions). the topic will be as follows:

10 Great Commands

Over the years I've come across a bunch of great command line utilities and applications. My top 10 commands will be presented in this presentation. Each command will be demonstrated in the presentation with a brief discussion of the different ways of using it. The commands are as follows:
  1. htop - interactive processes viewer
  2. pv - text-based progress bar
  3. md5deep - generate md5 sums recursively
  4. fdupes - find duplicate files
  5. sshfs - mount remote ssh directories locally
  6. socat - powerful command line networking tool
  7. aosd_cat - on-screen text display
  8. xclip - manipulate clipboard contents in command line
  9. time - time how long a process or script takes
  10. httrack - download a copy of a website for offline use
The presenter for this topic will be Marwan Alsabbagh, he has just returned from an exciting trip to Korea and Japan, where he witnessed robots, funky electronics, and incredible Internet speeds. Look forward to seeing you all at the presentation.
 
Event Date: 
October 9, 2010 - 3:30pm

LUG September 2010 Meeting - Back To Basics

September 15, 2010 - 12:07am — marwan

Our next LUG meeting will be on 4:00PM Saturday, September 18th at the Al Ayam Media Center(for directions see Al Ayam Media Center Directions). the topic will be as follows:

Back To Basics

The Linux Graphical interfaces "such as Gnome & KDE" have developed and made us dependent on them to do our day-to-day Linux activities! They have made us forget our beloved black screen (i.e. Terminal)! In this presentation we are going to travel back in time and see what we can do without a graphical interface? Let's explore where configurations are kept and how to change them? Also lets see some of the commands and how powerful they can be! Let's get "Back to Basics"

The presenter for this topic will be none other then Hasan Al-Eid (fedoraman). An impassioned long time Linux user. I will unfortunately be out of Bahrain during this LUG meeting, so I'll just have to see you guys at the next one.

Event Date: 
September 18, 2010 - 4:00pm

LUG July 2010 Meeting - The Chumby, iPad and laser pico projectors

July 15, 2010 - 9:11am — marwan

Our next LUG meeting will be on 4:00PM Saturday, July 17th at the Al Ayam Media Center(for directions see Al Ayam Media Center Directions). the topic will be as follows:

The Chumby, iPad and laser pico projectors

Marwan AlSabbagh and Ali Almahdi will present three different electronic products that are each unique and interesting in there own right. below are details of each mini-presentation:

The Chumby
The Chumby is a consumer electronics product with an embedded computer roughly resembling a small clock radio, it consists of a small touch-screen with a leather and plastic exterior. It uses AC power and turns off if unplugged and moved; a 9 volt battery connector is supplied for backup power. It comes in six colors. It is an embedded computer which provides Internet and LAN  access via a Wi-Fi  connection. Through this connection, the Chumby runs various software widgets. The Chumby runs on Linux.

The Apple iPad
I hope this product doesn't need much introduction. Under the hood it is running a Unix-Based operating system on an ARM processor. We will cover how to jailbreak this device and how to install a number of different open source applications on it.

The Microvision Laser Pico Projector
this is a portable projector that can fit comfortable in your pocket and is battery powered so provides full mobility. It uses a unique laser technology for projection that means the images is always in focus and can be projected on any shaped surface. The potential for this technology is very exciting and it will be fun to demonstrate the quality of this device to the group.

 

Event Date: 
July 17, 2010 - 4:00pm

LUG June 2010 Meeting - Ubuntu Developer Summit

June 10, 2010 - 1:34pm — marwan

Our next LUG meeting will be on 4:00PM Saturday, June 12th at the Al Ayam Media Center(for directions see Al Ayam Media Center Directions). the topic will be as follows:

Ubuntu Developer Summit

Every six months after a Ubuntu release, the Ubuntu developers meet to plan the next release. Jeremy Bicha was able to represent Bahrain at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in May in Belgium. This month's presentation will discuss what UDS is, how to participate (in person or remotely), and what happens at these summits. At the opening keynote, Mark Shuttleworth debuted a new interface for Ubuntu Netbook Edition named Unity. Unity basically consists of a dock/launcher on the left side of the desktop since vertical space is more limited than horizontal space on netbooks. Ubuntu Software Center is scheduled to include one application that is available for purchase and a ratings and reviews feature is planned. Come to our next meeting to learn more about what else is being worked on for Ubuntu's Maverick Meerkat release in October. You may check out photos of the event here on flickr
 
This is also Jeremy's last BLUG meeting as he will be moving to Maryland this summer. He has been a very dear member of the LUG for over two years, and he will be sorely missed. So don't miss this chance to see him before he departs to bigger and better places Insha Alalh.
 
Event Date: 
June 12, 2010 - 4:00pm

LUG May 2010 Meeting - Non-relational databases and noSQL data stores

May 5, 2010 - 8:11pm — marwan

Our next LUG meeting will be on 4:00PM Saturday, May 8th at the Al Ayam Media Center(for directions see Al Ayam Media Center Directions). the topic will be as follows:

Non-relational databases and noSQL data stores

Non-relational databases and noSQL data stores gained a lot of momentum recently with their adoption by mega websites like facebook.com, digg.com, amazon.com, and google.com among several others. They are used to store and present the millions of media files and social interactions that are posted on these websites which run on off-the-shelf commodity server hardware yet manage to serve millions of users from all over the world. The presentation will explain these non-relational databases, sometimes called document-oriented databases, in comparison to relational database management systems like Oracle, MS SQL, and MySQL, the De facto standards in enterprise data storage. As an example, Apache CouchDB will be used to showcase the paradigms of storing, retrieving, and maintaining documents in a non-relational database, with detailed screen walk-through and sample codes. Business scenarios for the utilization of such systems will also be explored with the audience.  The presenter is Hasan Al Shehabi, development manager of BBK's e-banking systems.

Event Date: 
May 8, 2010 - 4:00pm
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