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Geek Out Day

Posted by admin On May - 31 - 2009
Meeting Agenda

Meeting Subject:

Geek Out Day

Meeting Organizer:

Brian Spahr

Location:

New Iberia – Carlos’s House

Start Date:

5/26/2009

Start Time:

10:00 AM

End Date:

5/26/2009

End Time:

7:00 PM

Objective

Geek Out Day – Hang out, have fun, and discuss: tech, security, web design, energy conservation & gaming.

Agenda Items

1

Breakfast

Owner:

Carlos

Time Allotted:

30m

Coffee and Frappuccino. $7 worth of Frappys and some Starbucks Guatamala Spice Coffee.

2

Discuss New Experience Ideas

Owner:

Carlos

Time Allotted:

30m

Each attendee has to come up with two new experiences to share. Oblivion is cool. Coffee is good. Oblivion, Mortal Online. $15/mo

3

Discuss New Tech

Owner:

Brian

Time Allotted:

30m

AMD vs. Intel :: Wireless Tech :: Plug less Chargers :: HDTV :: Hi-Def Audio

Q3 2008 ::Wireless Home Network :: Wildcharge :: Sony BRAVIA ::

4

Web Design – CMS, SEO, Affilates

Owner:

Brian

Time Allotted:

30m

The website of the future. Top 3s! How to net $5 a day from a website.

Google is ahead because they look at things as a platform. What are the blocks and tools that we need to give to everyone. They aquire complanies.

Carlos – Opensource Drupal, Joomla, and Wordpress.

Drupal – Built right, they have the protocols on how to build it up. They go about building the right way with documentation, open source, often updates. Users can communicate and make drupal better. Drupal has logs for modules and a lot of community help.

Joomla – The middle ground becuae it is easy to use. It works out of the box. Secuirty and updates are not easy to find but you can get a lot done with little to no cost.

Wordpress – Is the easiest to use but takes a lot of customization. It was not built from the ground up as a CMS, so they will have scaliability issues.

Each CMS does something a little different so they can attrack their own audiences.

SEO – My take. Depends on the search engine. You can follow best practices, but it all depends on Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc… http://www.i18nguy.com/markup/metatags.html

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp

Affiliates –

Macro – Provide a platform for charities. Social Networkin site to promote giving and link to current charities: profile points based on participation.

Micro – Tangible Idea – bumper sticker join a group to promote your compass. Tailored to different based on community.

Micro – Intangible – Geek Out Day PDF/Website Community

5

Gaming – Quake Live

Owner:

Brian & Carlos

Time Allotted:

Until Lunch

Awards, CTF Binds, & OWNAGE. Played new map Siberia, owns. Won every match.

Holy Shit

666

First Blood

6

Lunch

Owner:

Chic-fil-a

Time Allotted:

2hr

Chic-fil-a PARTY PLATTER. Maybe next time – Online Special PAPA JOHNS 2 topping large pizza with pep and pine gets .25¢ for pickup $16.54. $2.00 delivery charge is for the byouads!

7

Conservation

Owner:

Open

Time Allotted:

30m

Gas vs alt fuel. Water, Electric, Gas, Materials, Services…

We opted not to talk about conservation in efforts to conserve energy.

8

Security

Owner:

Brian

Time Allotted:

30m

PC, Home, Car, Electronic Devices…

Guest Speaker

Name:

Nelson

E-mail Address:

Background:

Social Engineering & Security

Resources:

Trace Security http://tracesecurity.com/

9

Gaming

Owner:

Open

Time Allotted:

Until EOD

Quake Live – CTF, CA, The future of free Quake Live type games and how they will be profitable. Sub-business Ideas that support (quake-live.tv)



Action Items

Action Title

Action Owner

Priority

Progress

Due Date

Get Frappuccino’s

Carlos

High

In Progress

5/27/2009

New Exp for B

Carlos

Normal

Completed

5/27/2009

New Exp for C

Brian

Normal

In Progress

5/27/2009



Materials Provided at Meeting

Item

Quantity

Notes

Chips & Salsa

1

Snack Food

Computers

2

Carlos has LAN setup with extra PC.



Materials to Bring

Participant(s)

Item

Quantity

Notes

Brian Spahr

Logitech G3 Mouse

1

Gaming Mouse for Quake



Attendee Information

Name

E-mail Address

Required

Brian Spahr

bspahr@gmail.com; bspahr@iberiabank.com

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Carlos Bedia

carlosbedia@gmail.com;

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Popularity: 48% [?]

Google Wave – 2009

Posted by admin On May - 31 - 2009


Developer preview at Google I/O

Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below, sign up for updates and learn more about how to develop with Google Wave.



Google Wave will be available later this year!!!






Learn
Google Wave can make you more productive even when you’re having fun.
Take a sneak peek.

Develop
Learn how to put waves in your site and build wave extensions with the Google Wave APIs.
Visit code.google.com/apis/wave.

Build
Google Wave uses an open protocol, so anyone can build their own wave system.
Learn more at www.waveprotocol.org.

Popularity: 78% [?]

Drupal 6

Posted by admin On May - 31 - 2009

The Drupal overview

Although Drupal is often described as a “content management system” (CMS) it is also a “content management framework” (CMF). In other words, unlike a typical CMS, it is geared more towards configurability and customization. Picture a range of measurement where one end of the scale is labeled “specific” and the other end “abstract”. On the “specific” end of the spectrum, you would have something whose form is very specialized because it’s meant for a specific purpose—like, say, a hammer. On the other end of the spectrum, you would have something much more abstracted, that is available to be configured any way you like, for a variety of purposes—like some wood and a chunk of steel. You could make a hammer, or any number of other things with the wood and steel.

Of course, while chunks of wood and steel are more “configurable” than a hammer, they aren’t terribly useful because few people have the specialized knowledge to work with such raw materials. Drupal’s purpose is to sit in the sweet spot between the two ends of the scale, and create a sort of “builder’s kit” made up of pre-designed components that can be used as-is or can be extensively reconfigured to suit your needs. Its design provides incredible flexibility while still allowing people who aren’t programmers to make powerful websites. This principle of manageable abstraction is important to understand, because it is a central concept to all things Drupal. When you understand why a measured amount of abstraction is valuable, you’ll begin to understand why this approach is such a strong argument for using Drupal. Download here.

-Drupal.org

Popularity: 52% [?]

Joomla 1.5

Posted by admin On May - 31 - 2009


Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. Download here. - Joomla.org

Popularity: 51% [?]

Wordpress 2.7

Posted by admin On May - 31 - 2009

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it. New to blogging? Learn more about WordPress, then follow the three easy steps below to start blogging in minutes. Or, for the ultimate in ease of use, get a free blog on WordPress.com.

Ready to get started? Download WordPress 2.7.1

-Wordpress.org

Popularity: 100% [?]

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