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Liveblogging the January NoVaLUG meeting

This  morning I’m at the Northern Virginia Linux User Group meeting.  The topic is photo management software for Linux (presentation by Theodore Ruegsegger), but they also asked anyone with an  XO to bring it along, so Jonathan Blocksom put the word out on the One Laptop Per Child Learning Club - DC mailing list (and brought his).  The Oracle facility  we’re in is pretty swank!  An auditorium where each seat on each row has its own power outlet, microphone, tiny light (for taking notes), ethernet port etc.

Read more on the photo management software presentation:

Ted is presenting a relational DB management system he wrote which uploads photos in photo sets, groups in albums, allows derived photos, stores metadata, tags group photos arbitrarily , and allows fast searching.  Albums can  be exported to websites/media.  I don’t take that many pictures, partly because of  not being one to get around to doing much photo management.  I’m aware of Flickr etc. but do like the idea of photo management software I’d run on my own server.  Needs Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL etc.  But Ted’s Easy Foto Box package can be installed easily on a virtual (or real) machine.

http://www.tux.org/~tbr/easyfotobox/