Psyche Project

Koopa — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:29:30 GMT

Koopa:

SCALE

Koopa — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:28:03 GMT

Koopa:

===Comment===
I'd think all the following lines really belong in a SCALE specific section under sfvlug projects and not here? --[[User:Koopa|Koopa]] 04:03, 13 December 2006 (EST)

== Possible Alternatives ==

Voice Synthesis Possibilities:

log watchers
service checkers
status checkers
state checkers
harverster readers
ebook readers
documentation readers
security monitors
etc...

Voice Recognition Possibilities:

Pursue a different voice recognition engine
Pursue a different voice recognition version
Contact CMU to determine sphinx2 status
Contact CMU to determine possible/best alternative
===Comment===
These are good ideas no matter the result of any attempt to improve on Sphinx2. --[[User:Miasma|Miasma]] 19:42, 24 November 2006 (EST)

== Approach ==

1. Come to table with discussed project possibilities and any backround/code thats available.

2. Set precedent for the meeting stating it won't be a social meeting and socializers will be asked to leave.

3. Field the groups capabilities
interests
coding level
languages
topic experience level
no of weekly hours they can devote
contact information (preferably telephone numbers in an effort to establish perceived accountability and show we're serious about time based progress)

4. Discuss potential project viability and fallback given the limited time alloted (perhaps consider working 2 projects at once).

5. Open floor to alternative projects not discussed in case the group feels theres something with more potential.

6. Decide which project is most suitable based on the groups skills, desires, and most importantly donated time available.

7. Possibly have a mini intro to next meeting to try to bring some people up to speed on a given language

8. Write pseudocode to determine what code is needed. Assign Classes/Methods/Functions to groups members based on
the pseudocode spec (ie we need these classes and these methods/functions which takes this as input and returns
output in this form).

9. Create meeting outline before meeting stating the amount of time you'd like to spend discussing each item (adhereing to the
alloted time on the more irrelevant issues that might sidetrack discussion).

10. Setup some mechanism of peer review (easiest method would be to assign any one part of the project to multiple people
hopefully we'll see results from at least one of them).

11. Have definate plan and timetable for all actions when leaving the meeting, make sure people understand their task, what it entails,
the time it might take, and its due date. Also discuss alternatives to critical action items.

12. Set precedent for problem solving. If you can't accomplish this task, what alerternatives can YOU as part of the group recommend
or persue to achieve this goal by the deadline.

13. Communication! Point to sfvlug wiki, request that people spend 2 min daily checking out the SCALE projects state.

14. Write everything down!

15. Hand people a physical piece of paper with their task written on it. They won't forget and there won't be question as to what their
task was. Record the task in the project ledger.

16. Post meeting notes (minus contact information that can't be made public) and whose in charge of which task or tasks to enable perfect
information and dialoging.

17. Set a precedent to try to accomplish your assigned task as quickly as possible to enable task reassignment in the event they can
no longer accomplish their task (this might give people too much of an out and they may take the task alot less seriously if this is
even discussed, possibly only state to accomplish your task well before the deadline).

18. Socialization can occur before or after the meeting!

===Comment===
My assumption is that all this would be accomplished in a meeting proposed in the following section. We should probably bring this up at the next regular meeting to see how many would be willing and able to spend some time on this project. --[[User:Miasma|Miasma]] 19:47, 24 November 2006 (EST)

== Timetable ==

Max 7 weeks losing thansgiving and xmas/newyears weeks to relatives and responsibilities and the fact that the SCALE
meeting hasn't even been announced.

== Action Items ==

Have a SCALE related meeting ASAP
Bring project options to the table at the meeting annoucement in hopes to limit the groups discussion in a nonstructured meeting environment.

== About This Document ==

This is all off the top of the head atm if its severity or content is wrong tweak it. I'm tired of typing this stuff so hopefully
I'll get back to this later (or someone else will).

Koopa — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:45:52 GMT

Koopa: /* Newbie Command line Essentials */

''Under Construction!'' (recategorise, review, augment, and add descriptions after more sleep)

==Newbie Command line Essentials==

If you don't know your commandline very well at least know the tools that you have at your disposal to find the information and operate most efficiently. This section will contain only the entries that will enable you to maximize your productivity at the command line.

Search and documentation tools are some of the most important tools you can learn on your box heres a brief list of a few of the most popular, all of which can be accessed through your terminal (xterm, rxvt, etc...) or console (<ctrl><alt>F1...F6).

''' Search, Documentation and General Information Essential Tools:'''
man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals
find - search the manual page names and descriptionsq
locate - Security Enhanced version of the GNU Locate
updatedb - update the slocate database
which - locate a command
whereis - locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command
hier - Description of the file system hierarchy
apropos - search the manual page names and descriptions

'''Networking Information and Related Essential Tools:'''
ifconfig - configure a network interface
route - show / manipulate the IP routing table
iwconfig - configure a wireless network interface
iwlist - Get more detailed wireless information from a wireless interface
ifup - bring a network interface up
ifdown - take a network interface down

==Additional Useful Commands==

'''Search, Documentation and General Information Related Tools:'''
bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell
alias
less
more
du
df
free
top
lsof
help Display helpful information about the builtin commands

'''Networking Information and Related Tools:'''
hostname
ping
route
traceroute
arp
ifup/down
ifconfig
iwconfig
iwlist
netstat

'''Files You Should Know Exist:'''
passwd
hosts
hosts.allow
hosts.deny
hostname
version
resolv.conf
groups
.bash_profile
.bashrc
.bash_aliases
fstab
modules.conf
dhclient.conf

'''Paths You Should Know Exist:'''
Note: see man hier for general overview

/usr/share/doc
/usr/local/doc
/var/log
/etc
/etc/init.d
/etc/alternatives

'''Conveniences:'''
history
ssh-agent
keychains
screen

'''Basics:'''
cp
mv
rm
ls
cd
chmod
chown
cat

'''Essential Keystrokes:'''
;
?
*
~
.
./
|
n
<ctrl>r
! Start a history substitution, except when followed by a blank,
!n
!-n
!!
!string
!?string/n
less v

addme
grep rgrep egrep fgrep
xargs
su
sudo
package manager commands just names not all the options better kept in a different nonessential ref

Koopa — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:51:50 GMT

Koopa:

==Newbie Resources==

Here are some links that may be of particular interest to those who are new to Linux and the Open Source community and want to learn more.

Before we get too far, the first thing to learn is that Google is indeed your friend. Here is a link to Google's special Linux search:
http://www.google.com/linux Google the Linux way. This should be your primary general resource, that is why it is placed here at the top of this list.

Before you start bothering your friends or strangers the first thing to learn is how to ask questions that will return useful information and also won't make people upset. You don't want to alienate the people best able to answer questions with answers not found anywhere in print. This guide should be viewed before posting questions to forums, newsgroups, mailing lists, etc. It is appropriate reading for computer users of all skill levels. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html The author, [http://www.catb.org/~esr/ Eric S. Raymond] also has some other FAQs and HOWTOs at http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/ his emphasis in on bringing people to a high technical level and may contain information specific to IT professionals and people that want to become IT professionals.

If you haven't yet installed Linux or are looking to change to a different flavor of Linux this site has good up to date information on what is available. http://distrowatch.com/ Another great download resource is http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/ with much Linux software available for download from their servers. You can also find documentation at http://tldp.org/ at a different URL but same folks. They are a collaboration of the center for the public domain and [http://www.unc.edu/ unc-ch] with many free and open resources besides software. http://www.ibiblio.org/

A good set of online Linux courses can be found over at [http://www.linux.org Linux.org] That's a great jumping off site for Linux users of all levels. It is where I (Charles Wyble) spent the majority of my online research time in the first year of using Linux.

* [http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/index.html Beginner Course]
* [http://www.linux.org/lessons/interm/index.html Intermediate Course]
* [http://www.linux.org/lessons/advanced/index.html Advanced Course]

==Software Resources==
So if your new to Linux you probably want an idea of what software you can use with it. Now you can't just go down to your local computer store and buy software for Linux. However you can find software on the internet. The two most popluar sites for finding/downloading software are:

*[http://http://freshmeat.net/ Freshmeat.net] A site that tracks releases of several thousand packages. A great site to simply browse and see the wide variety of software available.

*[http://sourceforge.net Source Forge (also known as SF)] This site is used to host free/open source software. It is hands down the most popular hosting site out there. I (Charles) host multiple open source projects on the site.

The third way to find software is the package management system in your distrubtution. What I like to do when searching for software is to go on Freshmeat/SF and do a keyword search. I then sort on various criteria (popularity/last update etc). I then open up the websites associated with the software in various tabs. Once I have selected some canidates I install them via my package manager. I use [http://www.debian.org Debian] based distrubutions which contain some 15,000 software packages for easy installation. Others in the LUG use [http://fedora.redhat.com/ Fedora] It all comes down to a matter of taste :)

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==Newbie Commandline Essentials==

''Under Construction!'' (recategorise and review after more sleep looks really bad atm)

If you don't know your commandline very well at least know the tools that you have at your disposal to find the information.

Search and documentation tools are some of the most important tools you can learn on your box heres a brief list of a few of the most popular, all of which can be accessed through your terminal (xterm, rxvt, etc...) or console (<ctrl><alt>F1...F6).

'''Search, Documentation and General Information Related Tools:'''
man
find
locate
updatedb
which
whereis
hier
man man
man bash
help
alias
less
more
du
df
free
top
lsof

'''Networking Information and Related Tools:'''
hostname
ping
route
traceroute
arp
ifup/down
ifconfig
iwconfig
iwlist
netstat

'''Files You Should Know Exist:'''
passwd
hosts
hosts.allow
hosts.deny
hostname
version
resolv.conf
groups
.bash_profile
.bashrc
.bash_aliases
fstab
modules.conf
dhclient.conf

'''Paths You Should Know Exist:'''
Note: see man hier for general overview

/usr/share/doc
/usr/local/doc
/var/log
/etc
/etc/init.d
/etc/alternatives

'''Conveniences:'''
history
ssh-agent
keychains
screen

'''Basics:'''
cp
mv
rm
ls
cd
chmod
chown
cat