The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS ; http://www.ttcsweb.org/ ) will be having a pizzalime on Wednesday 2 March 2011 from 6 to 9 pm at Pizza Hut, Roxy Roundabout.
Come join us as we eat and chat about various computing related topics, including:
Contribution of $35 towards the food bill is expected. Anyone interested in computing are welcome to attend. If you are attending, please let us know by emailing admin -at- ttcsweb.org
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS ; http://ttcsweb.org/) will be having a pizza lime on Wednesday January 19 2011 from 7 to 9 pm at Pizza Hut, VALSAYN.
Come join us as we eat and chat about various computing related topics.
Contribution of up to $80 towards the food bill is expected.
Anyone interested in computing are welcome to attend.
If you are attending, please let us know by emailing admin@ttcsweb.org
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.
Saturday January 30 2010 – Automating software deployment on Windows
Dev showed how to automate software
deployment on Windows using http://wpkg.org ; while also allows to keep software on Windows computers on a network up to date without having to visit each machine to tediously to uninstall and install new versions of software or installing new software.
Held at Pizza Hut, La Romain (near Gulf City, San Fernando)
Saturday April 10 2010
This was a 2pm lunch at the Asian Buffet, Trincity Mall to discuss upcoming TTCS activities.
Saturday April 17 2010 – Apple iPad
We had a hands on look at the Apple iPad released by Apple the previous week
Saturday April 24 2010 – Android Mobile Development
Held in conjunction with the University of the West Indies Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lecture Theatre #3, Floor 2 Block 13, Faculty of Engineering, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.
This hands-on workshop guided participants through basic mobile application development using Android. A team at UWI also described their unique experience collaborating with MIT and Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey in the development of Android applications for social and economic returns.
the Telecommuncation Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) releases “Draft Implementation plan for Number Portability in Trinidad and Tobago” (http://bit.ly/cOzSIk) for public comment.
the Caribbean Innovators Competition 2010: “Mobile Applications for Development” (http://bit.ly/bVnWAH). Deadlines for submission is June 15th, 2010.
Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx” LTS operating system for desktops, servers and netbooks released (http://www.ubuntu.com/).
Tuesday 18th May 2010 – Ruby-web Frameworks
We met at ENCO to discuss a survey of Ruby-based
Web Application Frameworks as presented by Mr. George Mubita, Computer Science Lecturer at the University of Southern Caribbean.
The presentation covered the following areas:
1. Overview of Ruby based web application frameworks:
● Rails
● Merb
● Sinatra
● The Hobo+ Rails
● Rails+Merb
2. The Ruby Language overview
3. Demo of a Hobo web application
4. Putting together a Web 2.0 (Rich Internet Application) with Rails
and Adobe Flex
Sunday 30th May 2010
This was an online meeting to discuss aspects of the
“Draft Implementation plan for Number Portability in Trinidad and
Tobago” document released for public comment by the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT)
Friday August 20 2010 – developing system to track/monitor disasters in Trinidad & Tobago
At this meeting, we’ll discussed the concept of designing a website using maps of Trinidad and Tobago to track and monitor disasters such as flooding and alert persons accordingly. The idea came from a email on the TTCS discussion mailing list, You can read the entire email thread at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ttcs/message/27813
Wednesday 25 August 2010 ; developing system to track/monitor disasters in #Trinidad & #Tobago
Followup session from the Friday August 20 meeting where we looked at solutions like https://www.ushahidi.com/
Among the work that was done was the creation of TTCS FSWIN CD, via a request from the Free Software Foundation in Europe to assist with their Software Freedom Day events. See TTCS FSWIN CD announcement
Saturday September 18 2010 – Software Freedom Day
The TTCS will be celebrating Software Freedom Day 2010 on September 18th 2010 with a booth display at Trincity Mall, Trincity from 10am to 5pm.
Our booth will showcase various aspects of Free and Open Source Software including :
Free and Open Source Software for Windows included on our TTCS OSSWIN DVD (which was the first debut of the TTCS OSSWIN DVD)
demoing Ubuntu, a popular linux-based operating system bundled with many applications.
Ushahidi crowd-sourcing system to track/monitor incidents/disasters in Trinidad & Tobago
Wednesday 13 October 2010
Held at Pizza Hut, Roxy, we talked about
the four ICT related events taking place in Trinidad and Tobago during November 2010
planning for a TTCS November 2010 Tech Day event
report and feedback of our Software Freedom Day event on September 18 2010 at Trincity Mall.
the Ministry of Education’s eConnect & Learn Programme launched with the distribution of SEA laptops to several schools.
the recent TATT ICT open forum “Electronic Payments System in Trinidad and Tobago – Legal, Cultural and Technological Challenges”
Sunday November 14 2010
This pizzalime was held at La Cantina, RBTT Compound, Milford Road, Store Bay, Tobago.
November 12-13, 2010 – Diplo IG event, Tobago
Two persons from the TTCS participated in this event
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) will be having a pizzalime on Sunday November 14 2010 from 7pm to 9pm at La Cantina, RBTT Compound, Milford Road, Store Bay, Tobago.
Come join us as we eat and chat about various computing related topics!
Contribution of $40 towards the food bill is expected. Anyone interested in computing are welcome to attend.
If you are attending, please let us know by emailing admin@ttcsweb.org
Come join us as we eat and chat about various computing related topics including :
– the purchase of Laptop computers for SEA students – planning for Software Freedom Day on September 18th 2010. – planning for a TTCS November 2010 Tech Day event.
Contribution of $30 towards food bill is expected. Anyone interested are welcome to attend. See you there!
(Update 3 August 2010 : The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS ; http://ttcsweb.org/) will be having a pizzalime on Thursday August 5 2010 from 6pm to 9pm at Pizza Hut, Roxy Roundabout to discuss the upcoming Focus Group Discussion with the Ministry of Public Administration on Trinidad & Tobago ICT Strategy “Fastforward II”. Anyone interested are welcome to attend. A contribution of $30 TT towards the food bill is expected.)
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS ; http://ttcsweb.org/) has been invited by the Ministry Of Public Administration of Trinidad and Tobago (http://www.mpa.gov.tt/) to a focus group discussion on August 7 2010 regarding Fastforward II, the Government of Trinidad and Tobago’s National Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Strategy.
From the letter of invitation :
The Ministry of Public Administration, in collaboration with the National ICT Company Limited (iGovTT) and the Infocomm Development Authority International (IDA-i) of Singapore, has embarked upon a ICT master planning exercise towards the drafting of the second iteration of fastforward. Whereas fastforward I (2003-2008) focused primarily on “Connectivity” and sought to bridge the digital divide by increasing the accessibility and affordability of ICTs to all citizens irrespective of economic status and location. Fastforward II will concentrate more on ICT “usage and uptake” in order to give direction to Trinidad and Tobago’s digital development for the period 2010 to 2014…..
….Discussions will surround key initiatives being proposed under fastforward II including, but not limited to :
1. Building an e-Ready Generation through ICT Enriched Learning 2. Creating and Promoting Local Digital Content 3. Providing Accessible and Affordable ICT Services for Digital Inclusion 4. Promoting Media Literacy and Online Protection.
What are your thoughts on these initiatives? How can these initiatives be achieved?
What other initiatives should be included in a National ICT Strategy of Trinidad and Tobago?
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) celebrated Software Freedom Day (SFD) 2009 with a series of activities in September, including scheduled presentations with giveaways and demonstrations of various aspects of Free and Open Source Software. Admission was FREE and CDs/DVDs of Free and Open Source Software were give to all attendees. The activities involved outreach meetings involving booth displays at malls in Trinidad and Tobago as well as information sessions geared towards beginners, intermediates and software developers.
Booth Displays were done on
Saturday September 5th, 2009 – outreach meeting at Gulf City, Lowlands Mall, Tobago
Saturday September 12th, 2009 – outreach meeting at Long Circular Mall, Trinidad
Information Sessions were done on
Saturday September 19th, 2009 – “Open Minds, Open Source: For Beginners” at St Mary’s College, Port of Spain
Saturday September 26th, 2009 – “Exploring Open Source Possibilities: For Intermediates” session at St. Mary’s College, Port of Spain
Saturday October 3rd, 2009 – “Building with FLOS: Open Source for Developers” session geared for OSS developers
A great deal of planning sessions were done in 2009 and this planning work was documented on the wiki
Promotional material was generated for the events including a number of flyers and a press release. Newspaper ads (2″ x 8″) were also done for the three daily newspapers.
Venue for Tobago : Gulf City, Lowlands Mall, Tobago on Sept 5th)
Venue for Trinidad : Long Circular Mall (available Sept 12th)
The booth displays involved three booths:
One table geared towards providing information about the TTCS and filling out membership forms online.
One tabled geared towards demonstrations of the OSSWIN Open Source CD
One table for the demonstration of Ubuntu and Netbooks
Members of the TTCS were able to distribute approximately 140 Ubuntu Cds, 140 OSSWin Cds, 250 Flyers and added 120 new members to our mailing list (see photos and videos section below).
Photos and Videos from SFD 2009 Events
Saturday September 5th, 2009 – outreach meeting at Gulf City, Lowlands Mall, Tobago
There was a good turnout ; we had 50 TTCS OSSWIN CDs & 50 Ubuntu CDs and towards the end, we had to burn 10 additional CDs and 5 additional Ubuntu CDs to give out. 220 flyers were given out and it was estimated that up to 200 patrons visited the TTCS booth at Gulf City, Lowlands Mall.
Pictures from TTCS SFD booth in Tobago Sept 5, 2009 are on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/ttcs/sets/72157622259068670/ and on our TTCS Facebook Fan Page at http://bit.ly/2y6ja1