Meetings

Technical Meeting Date November 14, 2015 (Saturday) Time 13:00-16:30 Location Gotanda Culture Center, Meeting Room #2 6-5-1 Nishi-Gotanda Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0031 tel: 03-3492-2451 (Google Map) [http://www.sonicweb-asp.jp/shinagawa/map?theme=th_15#pos=139.716619,35.6226453&feature=19005::::10 (in Japanese)] Itinerary Presentations Android's Security Architecture (by Nikolay Elenkov) This talk will give an overview of Android's security architecture from the bottom up, and present the major Android subsystems and components that relate to device and data security. The talk will cover broader topics that affect all applications, such as package and user management, permissions and device policy, and will also touch on more specific ones such as cryptographic providers, PKI, and credential storage. Some of the changes introduced in the new Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) release will also be explored. ...

Nomikai Date October 9, 2015(Friday) Time 19:30 - 21:30 Event Eat and drink (primarily a social activity) Location Za Watami, Ginza-dobashi-ten 1-3-10 Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo [ Info (In Japanese) ] [ map ] Cost pay as you go Details This event is open to all Linux users and friends, and is to promote casual Linux (and non-Linux) related discussions over a few cold ones. Even if you're not a Linux user or a LUG member, but want to hang out with Linux people, please come. ...

Technical Meeting Date September 12, 2015 (Saturday) Time 13:30-16:30 Location IIJ (Internet Initiative Japan) Iidabashi Grand Bloom 2-10-2 Fujimi Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0071 Map Wait at the reception in the office entrance lobby in the 2F We will all go together to the room at 13:30 If you arrive after that phone Edward to be let in Ph. 090 3689 0292 Itinerary Presentations Coroutines (by Benjamin Kowarsch) Coroutines are a multi-threading model that is a highly scalable alternative to preemptive threads. There is an interesting paper called “Revisiting Coroutines” by De Moura and Ierusalimschy of the Polytechnic University of Rio de Janeiro, and of Lua fame. ...

Nomikai Date August 14, 2015 (Friday) Time 19:00 - 21:30 Event Eat and drink (primarily a social activity) Location Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Dept Store Rooftop Beer Garden 1 address: Nihombashi Muro-machi 1-4-1 Chuo-ku, Tokyo map: http://mitsukoshi.mistore.jp/store/nihombashi/access/index.html English access info (map is still Japanese tho'): http://mitsukoshi.mistore.jp.e.ki.hp.transer.com/store/nihombashi/access/index.html Cost Men: 3,901 yen / Women: 3,401 yen (all you can eat/all you can drink) Details This event is open to all Linux users and friends, and is to promote casual Linux (and non-Linux) related discussions over a few cold ones. Even if you're not a Linux user or a LUG member, but want to hang out with Linux people, please come. ...

Technical Meeting Date July 11, 2015 (Saturday) Time 13:00-16:30 Location Gotanda Culture Center, Meeting Room #2 6-5-1 Nishi-Gotanda Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0031 tel: 03-3492-2451 (Google Map) [http://www.sonicweb-asp.jp/shinagawa/map?theme=th_15#pos=139.716619,35.6226453&feature=19005::::10 (in Japanese)] Itinerary Presentations Getting Started with Raspberry Pi 2 (by Masafumi Ohta) Ohta-san will recap the presentation he delivered at LinuxCon Japan 2015. He will speak about 'why RPi2 was suddenly released' with insights he gained in his trip to the UK, where he met Eben Upton at the Pi-Tower in Cambridge. ...

Nomikai Date June 12, 2015(Friday) Time 19:30 - 21:30 Event Eat and drink (primarily a social activity) Location Za Watami, Ginza-dobashi-ten 1-3-10 Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo [ Info (In Japanese) ] [ map ] Cost pay as you go Details This event is open to all Linux users and friends, and is to promote casual Linux (and non-Linux) related discussions over a few cold ones. Even if you're not a Linux user or a LUG member, but want to hang out with Linux people, please come. ...

Technical Meeting Date May 23, 2015 (Saturday) Time 13:00-16:30 Location Gotanda Culture Center, Meeting Room #2 6-5-1 Nishi-Gotanda Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0031 tel: 03-3492-2451 (Google Map) [http://www.sonicweb-asp.jp/shinagawa/map?theme=th_15#pos=139.716619,35.6226453&feature=19005::::10 (in Japanese)] Itinerary Presentations Modula-2 revision project (by Benjamin Kowarsch) [Modula-2] is a type safe systems programming language of the Pascal family (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2) Over the last five years, Benjamin Kowarsch and Rick Sutcliffe have done a complete revision and modernisation of the language. The goal was to have a type safe systems programming language that is readable for ease of code maintenance, relatively small for verifiability and to reduce the learning curve for developers, but structurally similar enough to C so that it can be a complete but type safe replacement for C. ...

Nomikai Date April 24, 2015 (Friday) Time 19:30 - 21:30 Event Eat and drink (primarily a social activity) Location Za Watami, Ginza-dobashi-ten 1-3-10 Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo [ Info (In Japanese) ] [ map ] Cost pay as you go Details This event is open to all Linux users and friends, and is to promote casual Linux (and non-Linux) related discussions over a few cold ones. Even if you're not a Linux user or a LUG member, but want to hang out with Linux people, please come. ...

Technical Meeting Date March 14, 2015 (Saturday) Time 13:00-16:30 Location Gotanda Culture Center, Meeting Room #2 6-5-1 Nishi-Gotanda Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0031 tel: 03-3492-2451 (Google Map) [http://www.sonicweb-asp.jp/shinagawa/map?theme=th_15#pos=139.716619,35.6226453&feature=19005::::10 (in Japanese)] Itinerary Presentations An Exploration of Recursive Descent Parsing (by Benjamin Kowarsch) This presentation will give a general overview of common parsing techniques and examine RD parsing in further detail. In particular it will show how to design, visualise and troubleshoot grammars suitable for RD parsing and how to transform such grammars into handwritten RD parsers. It will also give a brief overview how to use ANTLRworks for grammar evaluation and troubleshooting. Finally it will introduce an unnamed free open source script that generates publishing quality syntax diagrams. ...

Nomikai Date February 20, 2015 (Friday) Time 19:30 - 21:30 Event Eat and drink (primarily a social activity) Location Za Watami, Ginza-dobashi-ten 1-3-10 Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo [ Info (In Japanese) ] [ map ] Cost Costs will be shared equally among participants (usually between 3,000-4,000 yen) Details This event is open to all Linux users and friends, and is to promote casual Linux (and non-Linux) related discussions over a few cold ones. Even if you're not a Linux user or a LUG member, but want to hang out with Linux people, please come. ...