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Penguins and coffee

Today’s Charleston Linux User Group meeting was held at the new Coastal Coffee Roasters in Summerville.

Brad’s roasting operation is in full gear and during the meeting we got to sample his iced coffee. It’s not just regular brewed coffee poured over ice. It’s a cold brew process that results in a remarkably tasty, non-bitter refreshing cold drink perfect for these hot summer days.

Today’s meeting covered the latest happenings with Summer PyGames, an update from the recent Southeast Linuxfest, a demo of a machine planned for use as a server for a new community computer lab, the new Makelab Charleston and various other miscellaneous topics.

CSCLUG meeting at Coastal Coffee Roasters

After the meeting wrapped up, Brad gave us a tour of the roasting operation.

Coastal Coffee Roasters logo on the side of a large red coffee roasting machine

Starting from raw green coffee beans

A handful of green unroasted coffee beans

talking about the roasting process

Explaining the coffee roasting process

and the finished product

A pail of freshly roasted coffee beans
Showing off a bag of coffee beans

If you’re in the area, stop by and pay them a visit. Pick up a bag or two of coffee and try some of the iced coffee.

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A Blessing of the VInes

Saturday was a pretty awesome afternoon with the Charleston Linux User Group and the 21st Century Photography (Digital & Film) Meetup Group both having meetings at Irvin House Vineyards’ Blessing of the Vine.

Sparse turnout from the LUG with 4 members showing up. Steve had his new Acer Aspire One netbook and showed it off to an interested passerby. It’s a pretty neat piece of hardware.

Had about 16 people with the photo group come out and everybody had a good time taking pictures.

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CSCLUG Linux Demo Day

Today’s CSCLUG Linux Demo Day turned out to be a pretty good event, and a resounding success by my standards. I’d say we had somewhere around 50-60 people stop by today. Most came by for the event, a few came in just to get coffee so we explained to them what was going on. There were even a few that said they were interested in learning more about Linux but didn’t have anybody to guide them, which was precisely the audience we were looking for.

There were some very interesting demonstrations going on, including a couple of OLPC-XO units that could do interesting things like function as an oscilloscope and even acoustic distance measurements. Zenko showed off Linux gaming on a laptop and used his eeePC to remote control a Roomba. There was also lots of fun being had with Blobber.

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Stanley geeks out

Stanley spent the afternoon hanging out with a bunch of computer geeks for CSCLUG‘s Linux Demonstration Day.

He’s here sitting next to Tux and my laptop, which is currently booted from a GNUstep LiveCD.

Stanley with Tux and a laptop
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Virtual graffiti with Blobber

A bunch of us with the Charleston Linux Users Group got together in Marion Square tonight to mess around with virtual graffiti (laser tagging) using Blobber, a program created by one of the members.
Blobber’s become a pretty cool piece of software in a fairly short period of time. You can select different colours to draw with, and can even track multiple lasers so more than one person can draw at the same time.
We had a good time using lasers to draw all over the base of the statue of John Calhoun, creating no mess and leaving nothing behind after we finished.
If you’re interested in finding out more about it, we’ll have it set up at our upcoming Linux Demo Day on September 14 at Muddy Waters in West Ashley (1331 Ashley River Road) from 1-4PM. Come on out and join us!