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GRPUG at The Garage in Zeeland – Recap

Posted on October 20, 2010 by brousch

The Grand Rapids Python Users Group had the opportunity to meet outside of our usual academic location at Calvin College when the winsome Aaron Schaap of ElevatorUp invited us to partake of their coworking facility in Zeeland known as ‘The … Continue reading →

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West Michigan Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party Recap

Posted on October 11, 2010 by brousch

I’d like to thank all of the geeks and guests who made it out to The Warehouse for last night’s West Michigan Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party. I’d especially like to thank Casey DuBois and his wife for hosting the party … Continue reading →

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Video Editing on Linux – Part 2

Posted on September 12, 2010 by brousch

I recently gave part two of my Video Editing on Linux series at the 8/26/2010 West Michigan Linux Users Group meeting. In this presentation I talk about the many different editors available for Linux and give a demo of creating … Continue reading →

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Webcam Recording using VLC on Linux

Posted on July 13, 2010 by brousch

These instructions apply to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS and VLC 1.0.6 Goldeneye. Recording from a webcam on Linux has been very underwhelming for me. A program called Cheese comes with Ubuntu, but it has some shortcomings that really annoy … Continue reading →

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Video Editing on Linux – Part 1

Posted on June 25, 2010 by brousch

I gave the first of three planned talks about video editing on Linux at last night’s West Michigan Linux Users Group meeting. This talk covered file types, codecs, and many of the uses for FFMPEG. I promised to make the … Continue reading →

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