[TriLUG] A few more details Re: Saturday 12 Jan Workshop: Raspberry Pi

[Pete Soper]

The Splat Space address is 331 West Main Street, Durham. There is lots 
of parking behind the building. The outside building doors will be 
locked, but people will be standing by the phone(s) to get your call to 
be let in. The number(s) will be on the outside doors (either front or 
back) along with directions ("stairs/elevator to the basement").

Elliot Hauser will be leading discussions of Raspberry Pi and education. 
If things get too hectic in the main room the conference room down the 
hall will probably be available (or surely, if somebody thought to 
update the signup sheet). Coordinated creation/adoption of one each 
meetup and google group for the Triangle area would seem like sensible 
goals among any others.

I've figured out how to use RPis to prep SD cards so we can use one or 
more headless systems on a LAN for prepping people's blank cards in 
addition to the laptop and other systems folks bring. At least one of 
these will have a hard drive big enough to allow a wide selection of 
images to be copied to your card.

Splat Space will have one permanent RPi system after Saturday and this 
can be accessed from any system on the Splat Space LAN via vnc, but 
there may be constraints to keep it from getting messed up too easily. 
We'll call it "splatpi" or some better alternative and hopefully have it 
set up for easy access via bonjour. The physical monitor/keyboard/mouse 
is TBD and the USB hub will have to be on loan if there isn't a usable 
hub in the parts boxes.

I'll have a lot of image files beyond the recommended two that most 
folks will want to choose from. If anybody can point me to bits for the 
Android 4.0 port I'd appreciate it (2.3 will be available). People are 
encouraged to bring their cool stuff: don't assume somebody else will 
bring any particular thing, as many folks will not be there all day. 
Yes, the early access JDK 8 bits will be available. :-)

-Pete

PS Splat Spacers: Don't fret if any part of Mount Doom is still in the 
room. I'm bringing my beater pickup and we can move the mountain or dog 
pile into the back of the truck and put a sign on it for folk to pick 
through during the day. I want a power supply or two but the rest will 
go to the recycling center in Holly Springs.

On 01/11/2013 09:26 AM, Bill Farrow wrote:
> There will be a Raspberry Pi workshop on Saturday 12th January at
> SplatSpace in Durham, 9am – 5pm.
>
> http://trilug.org/2013-01-12/Raspberry_Pi
>
> This workshop is a follow-up to the Triangle Linux Group's January
> 10th meeting, which will be all about Raspberry Pi.  This event is
> free and open to everybody.  There will be demo stations and spare
> Raspberry Pi computers for you to experiment with.
>
> http://www.meetup.com/splatspace/events/96072602/
> http://splatspace.org/
>
>
> Bill