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Jmdeleon: /* Lunch: Thursday November 12th */

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= K-LUG - Rochester, MN Area Linux Users Group =

Note: To request a wiki account, please join the mailing list and post a message.

We can use presentations for upcoming meetings, please see [http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings a list of ideas] if you're willing but lacking a topic.

== LUG News ==

[http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=cXBkMGRtOGtndmFibm9yajJhcTRlM2s2OGtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ K-LUG Google calendar]

[http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ODkyNDg3ZWZpbWh2OWduMHFyMTNtdG9qamtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ K-LUG unofficial activities Google calendar]

[http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=720638962#/pages/K-Lug-Linux-User-Group/48319644279?ref=mf K-lug Facebook page]

=== Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday October 8th ===
Jean Barmash has volunteered to speak on Grails, and has provded the following description and bio.

Grails - High Productivity Web Framework for the Java Platform.

Grails in a high-productivity framework that espouses convention over
configuration and takes a lot of good ideas from Ruby on Rails
framework. It is based on Groovy Language, a dynamic language
designed for easy integration with Java (Groovy is a super-set of
Java). Grails is a high-productivity framework by following the
"coding by convention" paradigm, providing a stand-alone development
environment and hiding much of the configuration detail from the
developer. Grails is built on top of proven Java frameworks such as
Spring and Hibernate. In November 2008, G2One, the company behind
Groovy and Grails, was aqcuired by SpringSource, which in turn was
acquired by VMWare just a few weeks ago. (For more, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grails_(framework) ).

In this presentation, you will get a brief overview of Groovy's
capabilities, and then we'll learn about the key concepts behind
Grails, and its plugin system, and how it can be used to rapidly
prototype applications, and how it enables you to be much more
productive programming web applications.

Jean Barmash is the CTO of EnergyScoreCards, a startup company that
helps benchmark energy efficiency of multi-family buildings, where he
is responsible for architecture and implementation of the SaaS
software using the Grails framework. To his role, Jean brings a
wealth of experience in different areas of technology creation. Most
recently, he was Director of Technical Services at Alfresco Software,
the Open Source Enterprise Content Management Company, where his
responsibilities included architecture and hands-on development of
content centric solutions, training, and working with open source
community. He also worked as Sr. Consultant and Trainer at several
Wall Street Firms. Well-versed in both .NET and Java, he is interested
in the innovation going on in Web 2.0 and bringing it into the
Enterprise. He is a frequent speaker on technology and architecture
topics at various user groups and industry conferences such as
Software Development Practices, Enterprise 2.0, Atlanta DevNexus, and
others.

=== Planned Socials: October TBD ===
There will hopefully be a night of Segway trials, where we'll rent two Segway's
for an entire evening at $40 each, and split the cost among whoever
shows up. People would need to bring small bills for easy
contributions. But we need someone to coordinate by picking a time, a
location, and calling the Segway people to coordinate the event.

A photography walk would also be fun and would need to be done when most of you are still willing to play outside, ie in October. Bring your camera, and we'll all try
our hand at taking pictures. We need someone to pick a starting
location, route, and to lead the event (this means you get to pick the
time and date!). Also, this would lead well into another photo
manipulation presentation, we had one on GIMP and one on PaintShopPro a
couple years ago, if anyone is willing to give such a presentation at a near-future meeting.

=== Lunch: Thursday October 15th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a multitude of miscrients.

=== Planned Social: October TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.

=== Annual Swap/Sale: Thursday November 12th ===

Come if you want to Sell Stuff! 
Come if you want to show off Stuff! (prizes awarded for crowd favorites) 
Come if you want to Buy Stuff! (K-Lug Tee shirts available too) 
Come if you want to eat Stuff! (Pizza and Pop available for a donation) 

We need volunteers for creating advertising, putting up signs, running the recycling station, and of course everyone should bring their stuff to sell/swap. 
We'll make use of volunteer labor and/or elevators to help get everything up to the second floor, no worries.

Job list - volunteers needed! 
-Bring your stuff to sell/swap. Everyone. 
In previous years some of the folks higher priced stuff or a lot of stuff have pre-announced their "list of goodies" on the news group or our wiki...that might bring out more customers.

-Bring your stuff to show off in the Vintage Electronics show, and a “hat” if you want to submit an item for viewers choice award. Everyone

-Come up with a Vintage Electronics viewers choice award, be in charge of distributing 1 ticket per customer, tally and award at end of night. _____________

-Create an advertising sales flier, here's last year's [http://www.k-lug.org/images/9/9b/Swapflyer_2008.pdf example (pdf)] that all the people responsible for posting can download and print. Include who, when, where, and what (sale, swap, recycling, vintage, pizza, free CDs). _____________

-Print and show [http://www.k-lug.org/images/9/9b/Swapflyer_2008.pdf this Sale Flyer] to friends. Everyone.

-Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.10 per pound, rounded up to the nearest dollar for ease of making change). Everyone.

-Help others bring their stuff up to the room, down to their cars. _____________

-Bring a bathroom scale that's accurate at low weight ranges, so we can figure out the appropriate recycling fee to charge. _____________

-Man the recycling area, do the weighing, cost figuring, and providing of change. _____________

-Bring your truck and be willing to take a load to the recycling during the recycling center's open hours (Mondays-Saturdays, 8-5). Brent V

-Coordinate the pizza fundraiser, buy pizza and pop plus bring paper plates and disposable cups in quantities sufficient for those who show up. Will be reimbursed out of the profits from the fundraiser (charge is a donation). Pizza supply list, from 2008 results: pizza (4), pop (4 2L), paper plates, napkins, plastic cups, ice. We had ~1/2 a pizza and ~2L worth of pop left over in 2008, but we broke even on the donations, so we were good. The "fancier" pizza flavors were the faster movers, such as supreme went much faster than cheese. And root beer and Mt Dew went much faster than Sprite. Set up a sign indicating that the pizza and pop are in this part of the room, that's it's for donation. Also label a cup as the donation collection container. _____________

-Making some (Ubuntu?) CDs to give away (5?). _____________

-Get a location - Tina W

-Posting. Volunteers are needed to post the flier to many locations. Please sign up to be the poster for the following (suggestions welcome): 
-KLUG mailing list and wiki (done) - Tina W 
-IBM calendar - _____________ 
-IBM Beehive- _____________ 
-Ham Radio Club _____________ 
-PCIG Website -_____________ 
-Mayo classifieds _____________ 
-Craigslist, Think Bank _____________ 
-Rochester Freecycle (limited to free pick-up of non-swapped items headed for recycling at the end of the swap) - (this probably won't get done due to posting requirements) _____________ 
-UCR bulletin boards - in hard copy _____________ 
-RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy, bring your own push pins _____________ 
-IBM Building 107 - post hard copy _____________ 
-IBM White Building(664) - post hard copy _____________ 
-Other IBM buildings - post hard copy _____________ 
-Venture Computer - send email of flyer, request posting _____________ 
-NorLug? _____________ 
-Area 51? _____________ 
-Computer Liquidator on 2nd street? _____________ 
-p0wned? _____________ 
-Other places/ways to advertise? Public access? Would we qualify for free advertising on the radio, newspaper, etc? 
-Wherever else you can think of. _____________ 

-Create illegal wayfinding “Tonight!” signs for posting at UCR on the evening of. ("Tonight!" with arrows in appropriate directions, highlighting of what the event is and the room number, advertise the free linux CDs on our signs, etc) ________________

-Arrive at UCR at 5:45 pm, post illegal wayfinding signs on all entry doors, nearby directional corners, and on the room door. Bring masking tape. Also responsible for taking down at the end of the night. Find a door stop so we can prop the room door open. The masking tape and a pen are also useful for posting a sign above the pizza/pop, saying it's available for donation. And for putting a label on a cup as being the donation collection container. _____________

-Arrive at UCR before 6 pm, write welcome message on the chalk board, also list upcoming KLUG events and dates, K-LUG website address _____________

-People could list what they haven't sold and haven't tossed, post-swap. http://www.k-lug.org/ForSaleorWanted . _____________

-After it seemed like everyone was there and set up, we went around the room and let each seller advertise their highlights and freebies. Let buyers have a chance to ask if anyone had something in particular that hadn't been mentioned. Advertised the recycling, and the food.

=== Lunch: Thursday November 12th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a multitude of miscreants.

=== Planned Social: November TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.

=== Annual Holiday Party / Game Night: Thursday December 10th ===
Our December social occurred last year at Pwned (now closed), in the
past it's been held at Area51 or it's been a LAN party (need host).
Other options could include a night of non-computer games at a house
(again need host, and btw if this type of thing interests you don't
forget to check out the Activities email list and calendar, links on the
wiki), X-box type games at a local movie theater, playing laser tag at
the House of Bounce, or whatever else you suggest. Let Tim or I know
what you'd like.

=== Free: Open Source Stickers for your Systems ===

[http://www.openstickers.com Openstickers.com] - download these images, print on sticker paper, cut and apply.

[[Image:Openstickers.png]]

=== Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday January 14th ===
No presenters yet, please volunteer! Need some ideas? [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=Meetings&action=submit#Requested_topics_list Here are topics] your fellow K-LUGgers have requested.

=== Upcoming Meeting Crisis! ===
Well, not really a crisis, but we do need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2009. We'd like to know what you want to see and hear about. Please email Tina or Tim with suggestions for topics. Should we run some previous sessions again (maybe something you really wanted to see but missed out on)? What type of topics are good, what type are bad? Also don't forget, Speakers earn up to $40 as an incentive for their presentation! Also see this page for a list of suggested topics http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings

=== Old News Items ===
See the [[OldNews]] page.

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2009-10-08T01:08:54Z

Jmdeleon: /* Annual Swap/Sale: Thursday November 12th */ Changed Date - Nov 12th 2009 is a Thursday

__NOTOC__

= K-LUG - Rochester, MN Area Linux Users Group =

Note: To request a wiki account, please join the mailing list and post a message.

We can use presentations for upcoming meetings, please see [http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings a list of ideas] if you're willing but lacking a topic.

== LUG News ==

[http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=cXBkMGRtOGtndmFibm9yajJhcTRlM2s2OGtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ K-LUG Google calendar]

[http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ODkyNDg3ZWZpbWh2OWduMHFyMTNtdG9qamtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ K-LUG unofficial activities Google calendar]

[http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=720638962#/pages/K-Lug-Linux-User-Group/48319644279?ref=mf K-lug Facebook page]

=== Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday October 8th ===
Jean Barmash has volunteered to speak on Grails, and has provded the following description and bio.

Grails - High Productivity Web Framework for the Java Platform.

Grails in a high-productivity framework that espouses convention over
configuration and takes a lot of good ideas from Ruby on Rails
framework. It is based on Groovy Language, a dynamic language
designed for easy integration with Java (Groovy is a super-set of
Java). Grails is a high-productivity framework by following the
"coding by convention" paradigm, providing a stand-alone development
environment and hiding much of the configuration detail from the
developer. Grails is built on top of proven Java frameworks such as
Spring and Hibernate. In November 2008, G2One, the company behind
Groovy and Grails, was aqcuired by SpringSource, which in turn was
acquired by VMWare just a few weeks ago. (For more, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grails_(framework) ).

In this presentation, you will get a brief overview of Groovy's
capabilities, and then we'll learn about the key concepts behind
Grails, and its plugin system, and how it can be used to rapidly
prototype applications, and how it enables you to be much more
productive programming web applications.

Jean Barmash is the CTO of EnergyScoreCards, a startup company that
helps benchmark energy efficiency of multi-family buildings, where he
is responsible for architecture and implementation of the SaaS
software using the Grails framework. To his role, Jean brings a
wealth of experience in different areas of technology creation. Most
recently, he was Director of Technical Services at Alfresco Software,
the Open Source Enterprise Content Management Company, where his
responsibilities included architecture and hands-on development of
content centric solutions, training, and working with open source
community. He also worked as Sr. Consultant and Trainer at several
Wall Street Firms. Well-versed in both .NET and Java, he is interested
in the innovation going on in Web 2.0 and bringing it into the
Enterprise. He is a frequent speaker on technology and architecture
topics at various user groups and industry conferences such as
Software Development Practices, Enterprise 2.0, Atlanta DevNexus, and
others.

=== Planned Socials: October TBD ===
There will hopefully be a night of Segway trials, where we'll rent two Segway's
for an entire evening at $40 each, and split the cost among whoever
shows up. People would need to bring small bills for easy
contributions. But we need someone to coordinate by picking a time, a
location, and calling the Segway people to coordinate the event.

A photography walk would also be fun and would need to be done when most of you are still willing to play outside, ie in October. Bring your camera, and we'll all try
our hand at taking pictures. We need someone to pick a starting
location, route, and to lead the event (this means you get to pick the
time and date!). Also, this would lead well into another photo
manipulation presentation, we had one on GIMP and one on PaintShopPro a
couple years ago, if anyone is willing to give such a presentation at a near-future meeting.

=== Lunch: Thursday October 15th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a multitude of miscrients.

=== Planned Social: October TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.

=== Annual Swap/Sale: Thursday November 12th ===

Come if you want to Sell Stuff! 
Come if you want to show off Stuff! (prizes awarded for crowd favorites) 
Come if you want to Buy Stuff! (K-Lug Tee shirts available too) 
Come if you want to eat Stuff! (Pizza and Pop available for a donation) 

We need volunteers for creating advertising, putting up signs, running the recycling station, and of course everyone should bring their stuff to sell/swap. 
We'll make use of volunteer labor and/or elevators to help get everything up to the second floor, no worries.

Job list - volunteers needed! 
-Bring your stuff to sell/swap. Everyone. 
In previous years some of the folks higher priced stuff or a lot of stuff have pre-announced their "list of goodies" on the news group or our wiki...that might bring out more customers.

-Bring your stuff to show off in the Vintage Electronics show, and a “hat” if you want to submit an item for viewers choice award. Everyone

-Come up with a Vintage Electronics viewers choice award, be in charge of distributing 1 ticket per customer, tally and award at end of night. _____________

-Create an advertising sales flier, here's last year's [http://www.k-lug.org/images/9/9b/Swapflyer_2008.pdf example (pdf)] that all the people responsible for posting can download and print. Include who, when, where, and what (sale, swap, recycling, vintage, pizza, free CDs). _____________

-Print and show [http://www.k-lug.org/images/9/9b/Swapflyer_2008.pdf this Sale Flyer] to friends. Everyone.

-Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.10 per pound, rounded up to the nearest dollar for ease of making change). Everyone.

-Help others bring their stuff up to the room, down to their cars. _____________

-Bring a bathroom scale that's accurate at low weight ranges, so we can figure out the appropriate recycling fee to charge. _____________

-Man the recycling area, do the weighing, cost figuring, and providing of change. _____________

-Bring your truck and be willing to take a load to the recycling during the recycling center's open hours (Mondays-Saturdays, 8-5). Brent V

-Coordinate the pizza fundraiser, buy pizza and pop plus bring paper plates and disposable cups in quantities sufficient for those who show up. Will be reimbursed out of the profits from the fundraiser (charge is a donation). Pizza supply list, from 2008 results: pizza (4), pop (4 2L), paper plates, napkins, plastic cups, ice. We had ~1/2 a pizza and ~2L worth of pop left over in 2008, but we broke even on the donations, so we were good. The "fancier" pizza flavors were the faster movers, such as supreme went much faster than cheese. And root beer and Mt Dew went much faster than Sprite. Set up a sign indicating that the pizza and pop are in this part of the room, that's it's for donation. Also label a cup as the donation collection container. _____________

-Making some (Ubuntu?) CDs to give away (5?). _____________

-Get a location - Tina W

-Posting. Volunteers are needed to post the flier to many locations. Please sign up to be the poster for the following (suggestions welcome): 
-KLUG mailing list and wiki (done) - Tina W 
-IBM calendar - _____________ 
-IBM Beehive- _____________ 
-Ham Radio Club _____________ 
-PCIG Website -_____________ 
-Mayo classifieds _____________ 
-Craigslist, Think Bank _____________ 
-Rochester Freecycle (limited to free pick-up of non-swapped items headed for recycling at the end of the swap) - (this probably won't get done due to posting requirements) _____________ 
-UCR bulletin boards - in hard copy _____________ 
-RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy, bring your own push pins _____________ 
-IBM Building 107 - post hard copy _____________ 
-IBM White Building(664) - post hard copy _____________ 
-Other IBM buildings - post hard copy _____________ 
-Venture Computer - send email of flyer, request posting _____________ 
-NorLug? _____________ 
-Area 51? _____________ 
-Computer Liquidator on 2nd street? _____________ 
-p0wned? _____________ 
-Other places/ways to advertise? Public access? Would we qualify for free advertising on the radio, newspaper, etc? 
-Wherever else you can think of. _____________ 

-Create illegal wayfinding “Tonight!” signs for posting at UCR on the evening of. ("Tonight!" with arrows in appropriate directions, highlighting of what the event is and the room number, advertise the free linux CDs on our signs, etc) ________________

-Arrive at UCR at 5:45 pm, post illegal wayfinding signs on all entry doors, nearby directional corners, and on the room door. Bring masking tape. Also responsible for taking down at the end of the night. Find a door stop so we can prop the room door open. The masking tape and a pen are also useful for posting a sign above the pizza/pop, saying it's available for donation. And for putting a label on a cup as being the donation collection container. _____________

-Arrive at UCR before 6 pm, write welcome message on the chalk board, also list upcoming KLUG events and dates, K-LUG website address _____________

-People could list what they haven't sold and haven't tossed, post-swap. http://www.k-lug.org/ForSaleorWanted . _____________

-After it seemed like everyone was there and set up, we went around the room and let each seller advertise their highlights and freebies. Let buyers have a chance to ask if anyone had something in particular that hadn't been mentioned. Advertised the recycling, and the food.

=== Lunch: Thursday November 12th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a multitude of miscrients.

=== Planned Social: November TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.

=== Annual Holiday Party / Game Night: Thursday December 10th ===
Our December social occurred last year at Pwned (now closed), in the
past it's been held at Area51 or it's been a LAN party (need host).
Other options could include a night of non-computer games at a house
(again need host, and btw if this type of thing interests you don't
forget to check out the Activities email list and calendar, links on the
wiki), X-box type games at a local movie theater, playing laser tag at
the House of Bounce, or whatever else you suggest. Let Tim or I know
what you'd like.

=== Free: Open Source Stickers for your Systems ===

[http://www.openstickers.com Openstickers.com] - download these images, print on sticker paper, cut and apply.

[[Image:Openstickers.png]]

=== Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday January 14th ===
No presenters yet, please volunteer! Need some ideas? [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=Meetings&action=submit#Requested_topics_list Here are topics] your fellow K-LUGgers have requested.

=== Upcoming Meeting Crisis! ===
Well, not really a crisis, but we do need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2009. We'd like to know what you want to see and hear about. Please email Tina or Tim with suggestions for topics. Should we run some previous sessions again (maybe something you really wanted to see but missed out on)? What type of topics are good, what type are bad? Also don't forget, Speakers earn up to $40 as an incentive for their presentation! Also see this page for a list of suggested topics http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings

=== Old News Items ===
See the [[OldNews]] page.

Meetings

2008-01-02T16:31:50Z

Jmdeleon: /* Potential topics */

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= When do you meet? =

Technical meetings are once a month, during the second week of the month. On even numbered months we meet on Tuesday and on odd numbered months, Thursdays. Meetings start at 6:00 PM. Check the main page for additional social meeting announcements. We also meet for lunch on the 3rd Thursday of the month at the Apache Mall food court at 11:30 AM, sort of near the Barnes&Noble. Look for the geeks. For those coming from IBM, there are some people who carpool. For those coming from downtown, you can take the bus (route 7A, departing downtown at 11:12 am) or it's a 30 minute walk (plan to depart the SE corner of the courtyard between the Harwick and Medical Sciences building at 11 am) in decent weather.

= Where do you meet? =

At the University Center Rochester Heinz Center in room HA108. [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Need directions?]. [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html This map] may help you find the specific room.

= What do I need? =

An interest in Linux...that's it. We've got everyone from newbies to experts here so don't feel bad if you don't know a thing about Linux...that's what we're here for. To actually play with Linux you'll need at least a pentium (technically a 386 would work, but nobody has those kind of patience :), preferrably with a CD-ROM drive. We've got CDs and burners if you'd like your own copy too.

= How do I get started? =

Just attend one of our meetings or jump on the [http://www.k-lug.org/mailman/listinfo/klug mailing list].

= Meeting minutes =

Occasionally we take [[:Category:Minutes | Meeting Minutes]]

= Potential topics =

This is a list of topics that people are willing to present on if there is sufficient interest.

{| border="1"
! Presenter !! Topic !! Date !! Interested Parties
|-
| Steve Fox
| [http://beryl-project.org/ Beryl] 3D desktop enhancer
| Any
| Carter Lekatz, Tim Massaro, Tina Wood
|-
| Steve Fox
| PHP/MySQL programming
| Any
| Carter Lekatz, Tim Massaro, Tina Wood
|-
| Kevin Arhelger
| XEN/vmware virtualization
| Any
| Tina Wood, Tim M, Chris Abbey, Bob Nix
|-
| Bill Marshall
| Samba
| ??
| Tina Wood, Tim M, Chris Abbey
|-
| Kevin Neff
| USB Hardware project
| ??
| Steve Fox, Tina Wood, Tim Massaro, Jim Evans
|-
| Jose de Leon
| One Laptop Per Child
| Any
| ??
|}

= Requested topics list =
Can't think of something you want to present, and looking for ideas? Look no further. Got a topic you wish someone else would present on? Post it here.

-samba

-copying your own DVD's to your own computer for personal use

-wireless access - Are others using your wireless connection, what have they done? How can you help protect yourself?

-remote access - Security for a machine you intend to leave online as a remote accessed server for yourself as well as family/friends. Including specifically alerts and monitoring of who is logged in remotely. Are others logged into your system? Have others logged in as you? Have you been rooted? What did any of these people do? How can you help protect yourself?

-Klug photo album - Do we want one? Who would be willing to put it together? Could we put it on a wiki page that's only accessible to a restricted list, such as those already signed up to the mailing list? Are we photogenic enough to be willing to have our mugs posted?

-virtual meetings - 1. Would anyone on our mailing list take advantage of meetings if they were virtual i.e. webcasts or whatever?
At least with Audio and Slides available.
2. Regardless of the answer to 1, it would be a cool meeting topic if someone could demo Asterisk, an opensource PBX system, with Voip capability...perhaps way more function than we need for "virtual meetings", but it could be used to allow all k-lug users to listen in on our meetings...then we could combine that with a tool like VNCserver to show slides and on-screen demos. This is a Linux friendly solution that may allow more people to participate in our meetings. What do people think? Perhaps there are better or simpler solutions to this problem?.

-VMWare player and server are now free, we could demo this to allow windows users to dabble in the linux world more easily

-Xen or KVM, I keep hearing about them but haven't used or seen em...why would I pick something over VMWare?

-Linux on a USB Key, how can I easily configure the contents I want on the key, including wireless without having to create a dual boot environment on my Pc.

-Apache for personal use (photo albums, maybe a wiki, music, etc)

-PlutoHome

-Thinclients and connecting them to a main home server

-Construct a set of slides and presentation material to conduct a Community Ed class, with the goal of making it easy for the presenter so that the "duty" of holding the class could be circulated among the K-Lug'ers willing to do it. If you had to do it once a year instead of four times, it might be easier to keep a class like that going. Live Knoppix CDs are an issue at the Community Education building, the PCs there would not boot from CD, so you'd need a floppy disk boot manager to get the CDs in play. The goal, especially for the Linux class, is to allow everyone to walk away at the end of the evening with a live-CD in hand.
Volunteers for teaching once presentation is written: Steve Schaper

-Voting and vote tracking

-Now that new cars don't come with cassette players, it becomes necessary to put those books on tape or music on tape on a more useful format for travelling. How to do this using cheap/free/already owned software and hardware. Could expand the topic to rescuing your any favorite out-dated audio material (record, 8-track, etc).

-aapml application mark up...what is it/how is it used. Is it going anywhere.

-Repairing/rebuilding a hacked machine

-Some workgroup like sessions to configure, build and install USB
Drive distributions. Maybe several evenings in a row so one missed
could be attended or used for catch up.

-More Home Automation related stuff if anyone has information to
share.

-A clean way to make copies of purchased DVD movies for viewing off
a laptop hard drive.

-Home Document Management (OpenDocMan project) scanning, indexing and
managing important documents.

-Introduction to Onion Routing, building and using Tor for fun and profit!

-Using the ports system under (Free|Open|Net)BSD

-LDAP Authentication and user management

= Information on the next social meeting =
See the [[SocialMeeting]] page

Main Page

2006-10-04T19:49:23Z

Jmdeleon: /* Technical Meeting: Tuesday October 10th */

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== LUG News ==

=== Technical Meeting: Tuesday October 10th ===
Mister House - Home automation - road trip to a Rochester home being controlled by computers. We're limited to ~25 participants. If there are closer to 50, we might be able to split and have a second session. Please sign up, in order, below or email Tina to get added. Indicate if you could only attend if it were not the original October 10th date, you'd be at the head of the list if we had a second date.
Some details on Mr House: http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/

{| border="1" cellpadding="5"
|-
| '''Name''' || '''# of attendees''' || '''Other date only'''
|-
|Tina Wood ||1||
|-
|Eldon Nelson || 1 ||
|-
|Tim Massaro || 1 ||
|-
|Steve Severson || 1 ||
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|Luka Bajzer || 1 ||
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|Robert Bleimeyer || 3 || Y
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|Dennis DeLorme || 2 ||
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|José de Leon || 1 || Y
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Directions and map to Mister House can be found [http://brucewinter.googlepages.com/directionstomyhouse here].

=== Technical Meeting: Thursday, September 14th ===
Open source in Croatia, Croatian government. Guest speaker Vlatko Kosturjak, from Croatia, temporarily in the US. Room will be HA108, our new "permanent" location.

Wink has been postponed. [http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Wink] software used for making demos of new products. Records screen sessions and audio.

=== CANCELLED Social: Saturday September 9th CANCELLED ===
Flatwater canoe trip down the Root River. See the [[SocialMeeting]] page. Please sign up by noon on Thursday.

=== Social: Wednesday August 23rd ===
Frisbee golf, 6:30 pm, East Park. Bring friends, bring frisbees.

=== Lunch: August 17th ===
11:30 am at the Galleria, near the Chinese restaurant.

=== Technical Meeting: Tuesday August 8th ===
We currently have no meeting topic. You can come to RCTC's HA104, find a janitor to open the room, and discuss whatever geeky topic crosses your mind. Or you can go to X-Games, although so far nobody has RSVP'd that they're going to be there. And/or, if you have IBM campus privledges, you can attend PCIG's presentation on VMware on Thursday August 10th.

=== Social: Thursday July 27 ===
Join us for a round of shoe throwing at East Park, 6:30 pm. If people have better equipment to bring/share, we can hopefully upgrade from shoes to golf disks (if you missed the last social and are confused, we're playing frisbee golf). Lightening or hail, stay home. Otherwise we play rain or shine.

=== Lunch: July 20 ===

Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant. We will be inviting the Mayo open-source-discussion email list participants to attend as well.

=== Technical Meeting: Thursday July 13 **Note location change** ===
'''Ruby on Rails''' by Jose de Leon. Ruby is an open source scripting language and Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that makes developing web applications easy. Jose will demo an application he has written in Ruby on Rails and will discuss the International Rails Conference (http://railsconf.org/) he recently attended.
This is a joint meeting with [http://www.pcig.info PCIG]. Construction continues in the computer lab wing, so this meeting will occur in [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html HA104].

=== Links from Old News Items ===
[http://www.pcig.info the PC Interest Group's] | [[UCR Heinz Center, Room HB117b]] | [[ForSaleorWanted]] | [http://www.gimp.org Gimp] | [[OldNews]]