fixes #252 ref. #247 Reviewed-on: #253 Reviewed-by: omar <omarl@noreply.libreschool.org> Co-authored-by: paspo <paolo@asperti.com> Co-committed-by: paspo <paolo@asperti.com>
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title: Events in 2016 by BGlug
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date: 2016-12-30T12:00:00+00:00
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slug: eventi-2016
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type: post
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image: eventi2016-collage.png
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image_alt: "Events' collage of 2016"
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summary: "Here is the summary list of the meetings organized by BGlug during 2016"
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## These are the events we proposed in 2016
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2016 was a year full of events. In addition to the traditional Linux Day in October, the year immediately opened with interesting meetings for all tastes.
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The season opened in March with a rich series of events:
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* **Embedded Linux: a very small penguin** with Luca Ceresoli who illustrated how Linux is used in **embedded systems** and how to use **Buildroot** to give life to an ARM board.
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* **Introduction to Linux** was an introductory evening on **Linux** and free software.
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* **Community Wi-Fi networks: how they work (Ninux)** with Davide Rossin, an active member of **BgLUG**, who spoke about the topic of **community Wi-Fi networks** and the concept of **mesh network**.
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We then continued in April with two meetings on making held by FABLAB Bergamo.
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* **3D printing course with Open Source tools** with Simone Branchi who introduced us to the fascinating world of 3D printing made with Open Source tools. The meeting took place over two evenings.
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The following month, at the end of May, following the **Linux Presentation Day**, a:
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* **Installation Party** was held with the entire BGlug team working to help anyone who wanted to install a Linux system on their PC.
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In June, two more events:
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* **Do-it-yourself media center** on the use of media centers, very easily installed on Raspberry PI
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* **NethServer, the easy-to-use Linux server distribution** with the founders of the software house who illustrated the qualities of the Nethserver solution, at Artilab.
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The summer ended at Polaresco with a meeting on:
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* **Bitcoin, what it is and how to use it** with David Rossin who talked about the technology related to Bitcoin.
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In October, a double edition of Linux Day took place: in parallel with the official one, a second, smaller and reserved for the Albino comprehensive school was held, in which some Bglug members participated as speakers.
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Two other events closed the year:
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* **oVirt - Open your virtual datacenter** with Simone Tiraboschi and Andrea Flori, on the use of oVirt, a virtualization platform with multiple features, based on **KVM**.
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* **Low-level code optimization** with Carlo Milanesi on the performance optimization techniques used by compilers or programmers in system programming languages.
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See you next year, don't miss it!!!
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