LAPM: next meeting

[Scott Francis]

well, I have a couple projects I'm going to be starting in the next 
month or so, one of them will involve Perl directly, the other one not 
as much.

Project 1: mobile mp3 player with 802.11b LAN for my car. I saw this 
month's issue of Maximum Linux magazine while waiting in line at Fry's, 
and that's the cover article. They totally broke it down in terms of 
hardware, software and steps required, so I'm going to be building one 
of these for my car. :) Similar to http://www.empeg.com, but in a 
rack-mount case in my trunk, with a wireless connection to my home 
network (see project 2) eventually for easy transfer of new mp3 
material. Pick up a copy of the magazine if you get a chance - it's a 
very cool project, and they have laid out in detail what's required.

Project 2: This one is a bit bigger in scope, and something I hope some 
of you may be interested in. I intend to start a LA area (in the valley 
first, and eventually over the hills into LA and the beach area) version 
of the consume.net project. Please take 5 minutes and go read the FAQ 
and intro at http://consume.net, and I think you'll quickly see why this 
is such a cool hack. I hope to have my own wireless node set up and 
doing omnicast from the roof of my apt. building in the next few months. 
Then I can surf on my wireless LAN while I'm having coffee down the 
street. :)

oh, and date/location has been announced for YAPC (if you don't know 
about YAPC, get thee to http://yapc.org and read more) for this year. 
w00t - I had so much fun last year that I'm requesting the time off 
right now so there's no chance of missing it this year!

Samy Kamkar [CommPort5] wrote:

> Hey everyone...and hi to the new people on the list !
> We should be having another meeting soon, and at this next meeting I
> hope we can discuss and plan a certain date that LAPM should meet every
> month to have talks and all.  This should be helpful to all of this to
> always know the specific day a meeting will be.
> 
> I'm hoping on having the next meeting in about 2 weeks, is anyone
> interested in speaking or hosting the meeting?  If so, get back to me
> and the list about what you would like to do if you can contribute a
> little :)
> 
> I've been working on a few things that haven't ever really been done in
> perl before and might just talk about it a little but hopefully we'll
> have other people who have new things to talk about and just general
> perl/*nix conversation.
> Hope to see you all soon!


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