PCI Express Bus

Date
Wednesday 11 April 2018

Venue
Milson Community Centre

Cost
$2 gold coin donation.

• Agenda
  • Welcome
    Chairman: Nick Skarott
    7pm
  • Introductions
    Guests and member introduce themselves.
    7:05pm
  • Main Topic – Driving the PCI Express Bus
    Speaker:  Stephen Worthington
    7:10pm
    When we look at, hear about, read about or purchase computer expansion cards, these days they all fit into a slot known as a PCI Express slot, and by association, the PCI Express bus. Stephen Worthington presents to us exactly what the PCI Express bus is, and how it is works.
  • Break
    7:40pm
    Tea & Coffee. Donation jar passed around.
  • General business
    8pm
  • Short Topics
    8:15pm
    Procedurally Painting Landscapes in Blender – John Flower
    A demonstration of using Blender to place snow according to altitude and slope.
    
    i3 Window Manager – Tom Ryder
  • Open floor
    8:29pm
    Talk about Linux, get help with Linux, and socialize.
  • Doors close
    9pm