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Getting the most out of Audacity on Linux
Josh Malone
October 24th, 2006
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Abstract
Audacity is a free, open-source, cross-platform audio editor.
While it's not Pro-Tools, it does have some great capabilities
as a multi-track audio package, as well. This tutorial will
show you how to do basic audio editing as well as more advanced
mastering, mixing and plugin use. I'll show you how to use what
audacity does well and work around what it doesn't. Bring your
laptops if you want.
Bio:
Josh Malone is a systems administrator for the National
Radio Astronomy Observatory, and has been in Linux and Unix
systems for over 5 years. In his spare time, he's working on
building an enormous collection of high-quality mastered Demoscene
tunes using as much open-source software as humanly possible.
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Ruby on Rails, An Overview
Nick Laiacona
May 30th, 2006
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Abstract
Ruby on Rails is a sophisticated new web application framework
written in the Ruby programming language. This talk is an overview
of the core components of Rails and how to get a simple application
running on Rails in minutes. We also take a look at a real site
implemented using Ruby on Rails.
Bio:
Nick Laiacona is an independent software consultant
specializing in interactivity design. He has a background
in the computer games industry and has been making consumer
software for over 12 years. His business website is www.performantsoftware.com.
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XQuery
Tim Finney
March 28, 2006
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Abstract
<text type="hype">XQuery is to XML what SQL is to relational
databases.</text>
XQuery 1.0 became a W3C candidate recommendation on 3 November 2005. At
the next CHUUG meeting, I will talk about XQuery and how the University
of Virginia Press uses it to produce digital books. Hopefully, David
Sewell, the Editorial and Technical Manager of the Press' Electronic
Imprint, will attend as well. If so, the session is guaranteed to be
more enlightening.
Bio:
Tim Finney is an XML programmer/analyst at the Electronic
Imprint of the UVa Press.
The page for Tim's talk can be found
here. A local copy can be found here
as well.
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Tracking Music on Linux
Brendan Becker
February 28th, 2006
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Abstract
I'm going to talk about tracking in unixlike environments, and
since I'm a linux user I'll focus on one widely available unix tracker,
soundtracker, and then also a linux/windows tracker called Skale Tracker.
Covered should be what a tracker is, a brief history of significant trackers,
which trackers introduced which features, and then once that's done we'll get a
copy of soundtracker up and running, mess with that, and then move up to skale
tracker.
Inside the tracker I'll talk about samples, instruments, patterns, special
effects, and how it all fits together. Then we'll write a cute little song or
something. After that I can field questions.
Bio:
I've been writing music for 13-14 years but have no formal music
training, so everything I do is by-ear. I wrote music for a small
handful of free unix games, most notably pydance and a couple other
small projects, but also two old dos games,
dr. oiram and cybrice. A bunch of sample music in ogg vorbis format is
available at http://clickass.org/music/.
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The Linux Logical Volume Manager
Josh Malone
January 24th, 2006
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Abstract
Josh will be speaking about LVM, the Linux Logical Volume
Manager. LVM offers a flexible approach to disk allocation,
allowing volumes to be resized, moved and even span physical
disks. In combination with EXT2 resizing tools, filesystems can
be re-organized quickly, without the need for time-consuming data
migration.
Bio:
Josh Malone has been a FreeBSD and Linux system administrator
for three and a half years working in development shops and hosting
companies. He attended Virginia Tech's Bradley dept. of Computer
Engineering and was vice president of VT's Linux user group. He
currently works as a systems administrator NRAO.
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