[TriZPUG] Fwd: Jan 10 TriLUG Meeting: Raspberry Pi

[Chris Calloway]

This announcement was BCC'd to our info address, which I assume was a 
prompt to mean it is of interest to local Pythonistas:

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Subject: 	Jan 10 TriLUG Meeting: Raspberry Pi
Date: 	Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:18:46 -0500
From: 	Jeremy Davis <jeremydavis at jeremydavis.biz>
To: 	undisclosed-recipients:;



Please checkout our meeting topic, Raspberry Pi, for January. If you
feel it may be relevant to members of your organization, please pass it
along to them. Thanks!

http://trilug.org/2013-01-10/Raspberry_Pi

Topic: Raspberry Pi
Presenter: Main Speaker Pete Soper coordinating with a group of Splat
Space hackers of Durham NC
When: Thursday, January 10, 7pm
Where: Red Hat HQ, NCSU Centennial Campus, 1801 Varsity Dr, Raleigh, NC
Video: Join us live via Google Hangout then YouTube video will be posted
on TriLUG.org

Raspberry Pi is a very inexpensive, richly capable single board computer
(SBC) designed for educational settings. It features a modest speed ARM
chip, a half gigabyte of RAM, flash SD, USB, ethernet, graphic and
direct digital I/O interfaces that work together with a highly capable
port of Debian Linux as a general purpose computing system that can as
easily host your home web server or LAN engine as it can keep an eye on
your thermostat or dispense cat food while you're away.

Synopsis:

In this introduction to Raspberry Pi attendees will get up close and
personal with the hardware and software combination that is setting a
new high water mark for price, performance, and usability. Multiple RPi
demos in the main and conference rooms will be in operation during the
meeting to provide the best opportunity for hands on experience.
Traditional slide presentations will cover where RPi came from, what its
capabilities are, and its charter for driving a wide range of
educational opportunities while serving as an "instant platform" for a
wide range of applications in hobby and light commercial settings. The
bulk of the meeting will offer demos that go from "close to the metal,"
low level apps encroaching on the traditional domain of the Arduino
family of SBCs to high level tools such as Clojure (Lisp implemented
with the Java virtual machine).
Join a group of Splat Space hackers coordinated by the main speaker as
they and other volunteers provide a rich introduction to this remarkable
$35 device.

Bio:

Main speaker Pete Soper is an underemployed software engineer who moved
to the RTP area when Data General extended its R&D from Massachusetts in
1977. He went on to work for three from-scratch area startups and ended
up with Sun Microsystems until a little before Oracle took them over.
Pete's done mostly system software development such as compilers,
operating system kernels, virtual machines, data communication protocol
implementations, and language runtime systems. He wrote the embedded
operating system kernels and many of the device drivers for Business
Application System's and Network Product's statistical multiplexor
products, once each in TI 9900, 8086 and 68k assembler and once in C. He
did a lot of work on various Java implementations at Sun after helping
convince the engineering and research organizations to embrace the
Hotspot VM, and tried (but failed) to get a process abstraction into
java.lang via JSR-121. More recently he's been making data loggers and
other gadgets using TI MSP430, Atmel Mega, and ARM-based SBCs. Pete
started with Linux when the Slackware distro came on 35 floppies for a
blistering 35 bogomips. He's married and has a daughter in high school.