Summary of TTCS meetings held in 2008

We hold two types of meetings : Pizza Limes and Tech Meetings. A Pizza Lime is the name given to our monthly discussion forum which is usually held at Pizza Hut, Roxy Roundabout, Port of Spain on the second Wednesday of the month. The tech meeting is when we have computers on site to demonstrate a particular type of hardware or software.

Contents

January 9th, 2008 – TTCS pizza lime

Held at PizzaHut, topics likely to be discussed :

Saturday January 26th, 2008 – TTCS tech meeting – look at OLPC and Asus EEEPC

Two One Laptop Per Child (OLPC ; http://www.laptop.org/) laptops were available at this meeting at Handarnold. The unique features of the OLPC laptops :

  • the mesh networking capability allowing for sharing of activities between the two laptops (chat, video sharing)
  • ability of the OLPC laptop to be used outdoors with the screen being visible in the sunlight
  • the Sugar interface for the OLPC
  • the journal showing how it interacts with files and programs in a simpler way for kids to understand
  • various activities (“programs”) such as Turtle Art, Record, Browser, Etoys, Measure

Two Asus EEE PC laptops (http://eeepc.asus.com/global/product.htm) were also shown.

February 13th, 2008 – TTCS pizza lime

See https://www.ttcs.tt/blog/2008/02/11/ttcs-pizzalime-on-wednesday-february-13th-2008/ for proposed list of topics.

March 25th, 2008 – TTCS pizzalime

Held at Pizza Hut, Roxy Roundabout. Topics discussed :

– The Education Ministry plans to install network camera in 36 schools : https://www.ttcs.tt/blog/2008/02/16/trinidad-and-tobago-education-ministry-to-consider-installing-network-cameras-in-36-schools/

A lot of discussion focused on whether cameras help with solving crime and whether it is worth giving up privacy to make people safer.

– TTBS and DIS29500 : https://www.ttcs.tt/blog/2008/03/07/ttcs-recommendation-to-trinidad-and-tobago-bureau-of-standards-regarding-its-vote-on-dis29500/

an overview of the recent activity of the TTBS and its approval vote of DIS29500

– The most popular Matt in the world registers a .tt domain : https://www.ttcs.tt/blog/2008/02/17/the-most-popular-matt-in-the-world-registers-a-tt-domain/

J. Morris was present to discuss there will be a consultation done regarding how .tt will be run sometime in April 2008. Some discussion on the various models for .tt

– Laqtel’s concession to provide mobile services in TnT revoked : https://www.ttcs.tt/blog/2008/03/23/laqtels-concession-to-provide-mobile-services-in-trinidad-and-tobago-terminated/

– Internet Governance Forum deadline for workshop proposals is April 30th – does TTCS want to participate? didn’t get time to get to this topic 🙁

Meeting concluded around 10pm

Thursday April 17th, 2008 – TTCS pizzalime

Held at Pizza Hut, Valsayn. Topics discussed/things done :

  • the recent Telecom Authority seminar “Balance on the airwaves ; free speech and responsibility”. The presentations from this seminar is online at TATT’s website at http://www.tatt.org.tt/Broadcast_code/Seminar_Apr_08/Presentations.htm
  • unpacking of an OLPC obtained by the Give One Get One program
  • discussion of the TTBS voting to approve DIS29500

Sunday April 20th, 2008 – Hacking the Nintendo Wii Remote

Held at Handarnold, we demonstrated Johnny Chung Lee’s project “Low-Cost Multi-point Interactive Whiteboards Using the [Nintendo Wii] Wiimote”. Visit Johnny Lee’s website at http://www.johnnylee.net/ for more details. A video of this was recorded and is in three parts :

Part I is a presentation by Mike Tikasingh showing how the infra-red pens were made. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs-Vwj6hnow

Part II is a presentation by Paul Worswick showing how the Nintendo Wii Remote was connected to a Windows PC wirelessly using Bluetooth. He then showed how to use the infra-red pen to turn a computer screen projected on a wall to create a interactive whiteboard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0eF-ejMXOI

Part III shows the practical use of the infra-red pen and the Wiimote to create a interactive whiteboard from the computer screen projected on a wall and then on a computer screen projected on a table. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT_HkU_jAIk

Wednesday June 18th, 2008 – TTCS pizzalime and demo of Amazon Kindle

Mike T. demoed a Kindle, an ebook reader from Amazon.

Other topics discussed :

Saturday June 28th, 2008 – IPv6

Held at Engineering Consultants, Mr. Andre Thompson from UWI gave an informative presentation about IPv6 and details about RIRs such as ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers ; http://www.arin.net/) and the recent ARIN meeting he attended.

The presentation can be viewed as a PDF file :  TTCS-IPv6-20080625.pdf

 

Wednesday July 2nd, 2008 –  sending and receiving electronic payments

Held at TATIL offices on Maraval Road, Port of Spain from 5:30pm, the manager of the Trinidad and Tobago Interbank Payments System Limited (TTIPS) gave an presentation about TTIPS and how inter-bank transactions worked.

Wednesday July 16th, 2008 – TTCS pizzalime

Held at Pizza Hut, Roxy Roundabout ; topics discussed :

Sunday July 27th, 2008, 5pm – TTCS Online meeting for SFD2008

Our first official online meeting using Skype to discuss plans for Software Freedom Day 2008, see https://files.ttcs.tt/ttcs-wiki-sfd2008-planning.pdf#MeetingNotes/AgendaforJuly27th2008from5pmviaSkype  for meeting notes.

Wednesday August 13th 2008 – TTCS pizzalime

Held at Pizza Hut, Valsayn. Meeting was consumed with planning for Software Freedom Day 2008 ; what type of presentations could be done, and who would do them.

Sunday August 24th, 2008, 5.00pm – TTCS Online meeting for SFD 2008

A second co-ordination online meeting for SFD 2008. Meeting notes at https://files.ttcs.tt/ttcs-wiki-sfd2008-planning.pdf#MeetingNotesforSundayAugust24th2008viaSkype

Saturday 6th September 2008 – TTCS workshop on SFD 2008

Worked on the various flyers and letters needed for SFD 2008

Friday September 12th, 2008 – SFD 2008 media launch event

Held at the Atrium at Guardian Holdings Limited from 6-8pm. See  Photos from the Media Launch at Guardian Life Limited, Westmoorings

Saturday September 20th, 2008 – Software Freedom Day 2008

Held at the Old Fire Station Building, National Library, Port of Spain. See https://www.ttcs.tt/meetings/software-freedom-day-2008-report/  See a 38 minute video of interviews taken at Software Freedom Day 2008 as well as a Photos from Software Freedom Day 2008 at the Old Fire Station, Ministry of Public Administration

Tuesday 23rd September 2008 – SFD 2008 analysis

Held at Engineering Consultants, we discussed the SFD 2008 event and looked at some of the video footage captured at the event.

Thursday October 2nd, 2008 – PizzaLime

Held at Pizza Hut Valsayn, we discussed the recent SFD 2008 event and fastforward II, Trinidad and Tobago’s national ICT strategy for 2009-2013 by the Ministry of Public Administration

Saturday October 11th, 2008 – Workshop on Draft E-business policy

Held at Engineering Consultants, we discussed and planned our response to the proposed National E-business Policy of Trinidad and Tobago . The deadline for comments was October 13th, 2008. A wiki page was used : http://ttcsweb.pbwiki.com/Draft-National-Policy-on-Electronic-Business-For-Trinidad-and-Tobago (PDF of wiki page)

 

Monday 3rd November 2008 from 7:30pm – TTCS online meeting

Due to a meeting with the Ministry of Public Administration (MPA) later that week, the TTCS online meeting was done to discuss the draft Trinidad and Tobago Government Omnibus Technical Standards (eGOTS) which describes the technical standards in the areas of

  • networking  (e.g IPv4, 802.11g, WebDAV)
  • data integration  (these relate to the format of the data being transferred including file format types e.g DOC, PDF, MP3)
  • application / presentation  (e.g POP3, CSS2, AJAX, RSS)
  • security (e.g Kerberos v5, SHA-256, WEP, web services (SOAP 1.2, WS-Discovery, WS-Reliability v1.1)

to be used within and by the Trinidad and Tobago Government for the exchange of information between : Government and citizens (G2C), Government and Businesses (G2B) and Different Government entities (G2G).

Thursday 6th November 2008 – PizzaLime

At Pizza Hut, Roxy, we discussed the problems of e-commerce in Trinidad and Tobago.

Saturday 6th December 2008 – Christmas Lunch.

Saturday 27th December 2008 – End of year lunch

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