Please join us for Michael Still's discussion on Practical MythTV, a powerful open source video recorder.
Doors open at 6:30 PM and refreshments will be served. More information available from the event homepage link.
Talk abstract:
MythTV is a powerful open source personal video recorder. It records
television off the air, plays downloaded media files, DVDs, and audio
files. It also includes a web browser, RSS reader, weather applet, and
much more. During this talk Michael will introduce MythTV, show off
the frontend interface, MythWeb, talk about the current challenges
with guide data in the United States, and discuss some of the upcoming features.
Speaker Bio:
Michael Still is currently a Site Reliability Engineer at Google.
Before that, he was a senior software engineer at TOWER Software in
Australia. For many years he has been using his spare time to work on
open source projects of various forms. This includes a book on
ImageMagick in 2005, and a book on MythTV in 2007.
Official Website: http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/08/open-source-developers-google-speaker.html
Added by mebelh on August 13, 2007