Kon has provided a copy of his Datacasting slides.

For the month of October, we're going to try something a little bit different. Instead of the normal 60 to 90 minute presentation, we will have several short topics. According to Wikipedia, the name "lightning talk" originated at the YAPC Perl conference and was quickly adopted by many other conferences. There's still time to sign up to present a short (~5 minute) talk. It's painless, and fun! You can sign up on the UUASC wiki.

The currently scheduled topics and intrepid volunteers are:

• bcmp
• Synopsis: We're always told you just type the code in and it runs with scripting languages. This really is an over simplification, and this talk will provide an overview of steps to get a bash script working.
• Presenter: Dallas Legan
• Biography: Dallas is a system administrator and e-mail marketing assistant with the Ergogenesis LLC of Plano, Texas. His academic background is in engineering.
• Synthesizing Closures in Java
• Synopsis: Although Java does not currently provide closures, future versions of the language will. This talk will provide insight into what closures are and how to use anonymous inner classes to synthesize things which behave something like closures in current versions of Java.
• Presenter: Mike Elliott
• Biography: Mike is a junior assistant programmer at The Boeing Company in Long Beach where he works mainly in Java. His academic background is in formal language theory and type theory.
• Top 5 tips for Drupal n00bs
• Synopsis: Knowing a few of Drupal's pain points will speed the climb up the learning curve. This talk will briefly touch on five quick wins :'''
• Presenter: Stephen Gornick
• Biography: Stephen is currently learning Drupal.

These talks will be followed by a 30 minute presentation:

• Datacasting
• Synopsis: This talk will examine data transmission over satellite, digital television, and handheld mobile RF networks, specifically using the *nix environment. It should be interesting for programmers and network engineers.
• Presenter: Kon Wilms
• Biography: Kon is Chief Architect at StreamingMediaHosting, Inc.