Devon and Cornwall GNU/Linux Users Group

Torbay Social Media Surgery

Posted on 2013-05-29 by Paul Sutton

Torbay Social Media Surgery

http://socialmediasurgery.com/surgeries/torbay

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LaTeX for Beginners course, London, 2nd August 2013

Posted on 2013-05-28 by Paul Sutton

The UK TeX Users' Group (UK-TUG) will be arranging a presentation of the
very popular course 'LaTeX for Beginners: Using LaTeX to Write a Thesis'
in the summer.

The course will be taking place in London on the 2nd of August 2013,
starting at 9:30 am and running to approximately 4:30 pm. Content will
include:

 - Editing and compiling LaTeX documents
 - Logical structure
 - Chapters, sections, and other document divisions
 - Including graphics
 - Creating tables
 - Bibliographies
 - Dealing with large documents

The course fee is £20 for current UK-TUG members or £30 for non-members.
The fee includes the course itself, refreshments on the day and a copy
of the TeX Live 2012 DVD. For non-members, it also includes membership
of UK-TUG for until the end of 2013.

Attendees will need to bring a laptop along to the event, although it
may be possible to arrange a loan machine for a limited number of people
on the day. The venue is UEA London, which is approximately five minutes
walk from Liverpool Street station.

Provisional bookings should be made by e-mailing secretary@uk.tug.org.
Confirmation of the booking, including the course fee, needs to be made
within four weeks of the provisional booking. Full details of the course
location, etc., will be provided to confirmed attendees.

Take up on the course has been slower than we've seen previously. I'd
encourage members to 'spread the word': running the course is an
important part of UK-TUG activities, but can only take place if
prospective 'students' hear about it!

http://uk.tug.org/

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Scratch 2.0

Posted on 2013-05-26 by Paul Sutton

Looks like scratch 2.0 is out

http://scratch.mit.edu/
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June meetings

Posted on 2013-05-25 by Paul Sutton

June 2013

Paignton meeting Saturday 8th June – Shoreline, Paignton, 14:30 start

Exeter meeting Friday 14th June – Exwick community centre, Exwick, Exeter, 19:30 start

Holsworthy Meeting Saturday 15th June , White Hart, Holsworthy, 14:00 start

Plymouth meeting Barista Brothers Saturday 22nd June 13:00 start

Exeter Raspberry PI Jam 22nd June 10 am – 12 pm
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Scratch

Posted on 2013-05-25 by Paul Sutton

Scratch [1] is a free programming tool developed at MIT in the USA and
aimed at children / young people with the view to teaching basic
programming skills and ideas.

The software is available for Linux, Apple Macs and Windows. It also
comes with the Raspberry Pi computer [2] which I wrote about a while back.

The software is simple to use, a drag and drop interface is provided so
you can drag script components (a script is a set of instructions) from
various categories on to the central are and upon pressing a green flag,
you can see the results straight away.

You can create games, animations, story boards etc. Scratch is great as
it is aimed at children so is simple to use, user friendly but more
importantly does teach the basic skills required for programming, for
example sequences of instructions and logic.

There several books available for learning scratch. As well as an
excellent forum on the scratch website where you can ask for help. You
can also share your work with the community and link up with friends so
they can download and look at what you have done and even modify and
re-upload.

Scratch is also used as the primary teaching tool for Codeclub which is
an after school club scheme to teach programming to children. Scratch is
also used in Primary schools, so please ask your teacher if your school
has this.

References

[1] http://scratch.mit.edu/

[2] http://www.raspberrypi.org/.

[3] http://www.codeclub.org.uk/

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Single board computers and software freedom

Posted on 2013-05-24 by Paul Sutton

From the fsf website

Single-board computers (SBCs) are computers delivered as one circuit board that are powerful enough to run a real operating system. SBCs are typically inexpensive and versatile, making them an exciting tool for a wide range of applications, from education to scientific research. But there’s a problem; all of the SBCs currently available have major flaws — hardware that doesn’t work without running a nonfree program.

to read the full article please follow the link below.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/single-board-computers-and-software-freedom
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