We normally meet every second Tuesday of the month for talks and demonstrations from 7:00pm onwards at BCB Radio in February, May, August and November and online in other months.
Why not come along to a meeting?
Until the start of the pandemic in 2020, some of us used to create IT Stuff for BCB Radio (106.6 FM). Shi has looked back on this for us.
October 27th 2010
Yesterday's meeting saw presentations about the history of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), Macbuntu, and (even more) on the Cycle of Change.September 29th 2010: Happy Birthday
The meeting on the 29th gave a chance to look to both the past and the future. See Andrea's post for the pre-meeting agenda. Quite a lot of things came out of the meeting, and if thought's suggestions and ideas are to be taken forward then people are welcome to get cracking on them. Attached we have John's presentation that was ammended as the meeting progressed and a PDF of the post-it comments that people made. (svg file also available - please contact us if you want it.).September 29th 2010 - Our 2nd Birthday!
It seems that, like certain members of British royalty, we have 2 birthdays, and it was agreed that our 'official' celebrations would take place in September! There are rumours of a birthday cake. It is not yet confirmed whether the cake is a lie. The topic for the meeting this month is, erm, the meetings: - What do members like? - What don't we like? - Would members like to have more meetings? - Or perhaps tutorials/workshop sessions?Top ten free and open source programs
Asked to choose the ten top free and open source (FOSS) programs, Bradlug members suggested over forty; so this list has been whittled down and is in alphabetical order because we probably couldn't agree on an order for those that made it to the top ten.August 25th 2010: HTML 5: The Hype and Some Alternative Realities
David Fisher and Jeff introduced HTML5, saying that it was estimated that HTML5 will only receive full approval in 2022 because W3C standards now require full compliance from two browsers.
August 25th: HTML5
The Hype and Some Alternative Realities - Dave Fisher
What's Actually New in HTML and What Isn't in it at all
Unsurprisingly, they often got the wrong end of the stick; misled by corporate PR hyping browser and platform capabilities with only indirect relationships to HTML5.
As a consequence, both end-users and coders may be forgiven for conflating clever graphical tricks in CSS3 and JavaScript with HTML5. As may the multimedia professionals who mistakenly believe that HTML5 is some kind of H.264-based Flash-killer.
This talk attempts to clarify what HTML5 actually aims to do, what browsers can currently do with it, and what a wider range of software could potentially do with it.
The talk will identify the evolutionary and revolutionary differences between HTML5 and the current standards for HTML and XHTML. In so doing, it should enable both web developers and open source advocates to get a better grasp of the decisions and conflicts that lie before them.
Mailmerge in Open Office
Both MS Word and OpenOffice have built in mailmerge and also ways of using external files for mailmerge.July 28th 2010: Show and Tell
No formal speaker this month, so those with something to show, got up and told us about:- Command Line Animation
- Router Question
- The forum
- Out and about in Bradford
- SCO update...
- Picture Competition
- European PyCon
- Top 10 Open Source/FOSS applications
June 30th: Creative Applications
Tonight we were joined by Huw Davies, creator of the Bunny web comic to talk to us about using open source products in the creative space, with a focus on images for the web and for print. He spoke about GIMP, Inkscape, and Scribus and a few useful command line tools. He gave a run down of the pro's and con's of each from his perspective, but demonstrated his enthusiasm for each of the products in the phrase 'It just works!".Ways to get in touch
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