Technical Meeting

Ogasawara-san attended the PWG (Printing Working Group) and Open Printing [http://www.pwg.org/chair/meeting-info/april_2012_cupertino.html Joint Meeting] that took place last month in California. In this presentation, he will give us an overview of some of the topics discussed there, including: * Printing from *nix * CUPS and related modules updates * Colour matching * Internet Printing Protocol * Multi-Functional Devices (MFD), Cloud, and Security among many others.

The Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized PC running Linux and costing just 35 USD. It is estimated that pre-orders currently number 700,000-2,000,000 units. This talk will explore the Raspberry Pi Foundation's intended goal of encouraging children to program. An overview of the 1981 BBC Micro, which inspired Raspberry Pi, will be given.

Steve went to [https://us.pycon.org/2012/ PyCon] in March and interviewed several notables for some of his research in Economics. At the event, he has also volunteered as a Mailman mentor for the Google Summer of Code. This will be a short presentation where he will present on both topics, with some emphasis on mentoring for the [http://code.google.com/soc/ Google Summer Of Code].