The Manlug meeting for May 2015 will be at Madlab this month, details below:
Location:Madlab - PLANT NOMA
Address:
Redfern,
Dantzic Street,
M60 0AE
Meeting Date: 16/05/2015
Meeting times: 19:00 - 21:00
Summary
Richard Ibbotson will give a talk about the fact that two Raspberry
Pis are being taken to the International Space Station in November.
There was a competition to find someone who would like to write code
for these whilst they are in situ on the ISS. More information here...
https://www.raspberrypi.org/astro-pi/
Richard did an interview with astronaut Tim Peake for this. The
general ideas and layout of the project will be presented. Also the
contents of the interview and possibly a discussion about this if
people are interested.
Richard has written about GNU/Linux and BSD for Linux magazines for
fifteen years. Linux Magazine. Linux Format magazine. Linux User and
Developer magazine. Linux Voice. He has also travelled to many
international Linux and BSD conferences and met most of the leading
open source and free software luminaries. Such as Richard Stallman or
Miguel de Icaza or Linus Torvalds and Theodore Tso and many others.