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Emory University School of Law
1301 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30322
Founded in December 1994, we have hosted a plethora of monthly meetings with talk topics ranging from "How to Configure PPP" to "How to Write Device Drivers". We usually have around 40 - 100 people at each meeting.
The ALE group is loosely organized, with a few people acting as contact points and no charter to bog things down. Anyone is welcome to come to the meetings; there is no membership, fees or any other formalities. To become a member, just show up. Our primary interest is in getting information about Linux to members of the Atlanta community.
ALE has three monthly meetings to accomodate the growing Linux Enthusiast population of the Atlanta metropolitan area. The Central meeting is held at Emory University on the second Thursday of the month. The ALE NorthEast meeting is held at Edeltacom Data Center on the first Thursday of the month. The ALE NorthWest meets the third Thursday at the Weather Channel. Directions are on the left sidebar.
DTiVo hacking demonstration
We’ll be hacking a Series 2 DTiVo to allow multi-room viewing (MRV)
and allow access via telnet and tivowebplus. We’ll also be converting
a DSR7000 into a remote viewing box.
We invite everyone to share this meeting announcement with any
educators and school administrators that they are acquainted with,
because the feature topic for the February 9, 2006 ALE Central
meeting is:
Evangelizing Open Source Benefits for Education
presented by
Daniel Howard,
President and CEO, Quadrock Communications
After years of frustration trying to keep Windows legacy computers
functioning at Morris Brandon Elementary School, two parent volunteers
recommended to the principal and the PTA leadership that the school move
to a Linux thin client server system employing the K12-LTSP package. The
proposal was accepted, with the result that all of the school’s computers are
now fully functional and over 50 donated PC’s have been converted into useful
Linux thin clients. Some of the teachers are now considering what they could
do with a computer for every student. Initially, the school district
technology personnel staunchly oposed the system, but they have become
believers after observing the success and benefits of using open source
software first hand.
This presentation will cover the decision process for moving to open source
software, the challenges of convincing legacy locked administrators of the
benefits of an open systems approach and, most importantly, how the teachers
have used their new Linux systems effectively in their classrooms.
Presenter Daniel Howard was the Associate Director of the Broadband
Telecommunications Center at Georgia Tech, and is now an entrepreneur.
His first startup company was Digital Furnace, a cable modem technology
company, which was acquired by the Broadcom Corporation in 2000. His
current startup efforts are in the area of interactive television
software. He has been a parent volunteer at Morris Brandon Elementary
School for over two years, and is now the chairman of the Brandon
eParents, a group of computer-savvy parent volunteers who are all being
introduced to the Linux operating system as a result of the new
technology initiative at Brandon Elementary School.
– Meeting directions and maps are available via the side bar links.
We will be doing a 2005 year in review, looking at the past NE meetings from 2005 and updating with new current information. This will be an ad-hoc and should cover lots of items such as Linksys hacking, Asterisk, and more.