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2016-09-18T00:12:13Z

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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 ==

We generally meet monthly for technical presentations (2nd Thursday of the month, 6 pm, RCTC), and monthly for socializing (varies). We no longer meet monthly for lunches, if you are interested in reviving this tradition please [http://k-lug.org/About contact an officer].

Did you used to be on our email list and suddenly haven't gotten email for months? We had a glitch and it caused many people to get unsubscribed; unfortunately Tina doesn't have a way of knowing who all we lost. Please use "Linux mailing list" on the left to get yourself re-added, sorry!

=== Technical Meeting: Thursday September 8th ===

Robert Nix, on how to put together an iOS application in Xcode in Swift.

--

Swift has been a trending topic, and now that it has been open-sourced, the language becomes more relevant for platforms outside of Apple. Join us as we look at Swift 3 and XCode 8, and how to put together an iOS app from start to running on the iPhone.

Robert has been programming in one language or another since 1973, and has gained experience and insight over the years that has allowed him to adopt and adapt to new languages in a quickly changing industry. Swift is the latest in what has been a 43 year educational trek.

--

The completed Swift XCode project started during the meeting can be found at

https://github.com/rpural/TimeTraveler

--

6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.

[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]

[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.

=== Planned Social: September 2016, TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.

=== Technical Meeting: October 13th ===
Arhelger on MongoDB.

6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.

[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]

[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.

=== Planned Social: October 2016, TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.

=== Technical Meeting: November 10th ===

Speaker needed, please let Tina know if you're willing to volunteer. Willing to present but want to know what people have expressed interest in? Check out our [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=Meetings&action=submit#Requested_topics_list requested topics] page.

6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.

[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]

[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.

=== Planned Social: November 2016, TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.

We probably won't have a November social unless someone has a specific request, as due to the approaching holiday season we tend to have very poor turnout this month.

=== Planned Social: December 2016, TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.

Probably a board/card/video game night, any volunteers or suggestions for where to host? This will be a replacement for our December technical meeting.

=== Technical Meeting: January 12th, 2017 ===

Speaker needed, please let Tina know if you're willing to volunteer. Willing to present but want to know what people have expressed interest in? Check out our [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=Meetings&action=submit#Requested_topics_list requested topics] page.

Also, K-LUG officer elections, and PCIG officer nominations.

6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.

[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]

[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.

=== Planned Social: January 2017, TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.

=== Pending potential presentations ===
[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
Oculus Rift], "the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games" . Peter Shabino

Jon Gullixson: gnucash or www :: Mechanize

=== Planned Socials: Fall or winter ===
-Murder mystery. The host needs to buy a kit at a gaming store to get the event started.

-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary

-Rock climbing at Prairie Walls

-Bowlocity laser tag. 5-6 people minimum needed.

-Liquid nitrogen ice cream. This needs a non-Tina organizer. Dennis DeLorme has 2 recipes. We need safety equipment and someone trained enough to keep us from freezing ourselves.

-MAME/foosball/ping pong at ... can't be Tim Massaro's anymore...

-February or July armchair mapping aka road rally event, http://home.earthlink.net/~oldmaltese/

=== Upcoming Meeting Crisis! ===
We need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2016. We'd like to know what you want to see and hear about. Please email Tina or Jon G 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 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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2016-02-12T16:37:46Z

Rpnix: Remove file reference; it didn't work.

__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 ==

=== Social: Sunday, February 7th 2016 ===
Winterfest cardboard sled race spectating for our February social, Sunday February 7th, 1 pm. There IS an indoor viewing area, per the description, so no trekking through the snow required.

http://www.rochesterwinterfest.com/2015/01/07/cardboard-sled-race/

Rochester Golf and Country Club
3100 Country Club Road SW

=== Downtown Lunch: Thursday February 11th ===
11:30 am, 1st Avenue food court downtown, at the bigger tables near the entrance.

=== Technical Meeting: Thursday February 11th ===
Robert Nix, on LVM.

--

Using Logical Volume Manager can simplify your disk space management on both large and small Linux systems. This will be both an overview, and a look at specific commands and results. See how LVM can be used to streamline your Linux installation and maintenance.

--

Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:

-PCIG second round of officer nominations (with elections in March)

6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.

[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]

[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Jon G or Tina know.

=== "January" Social: Fridays February 12th, 19th, plus others ===
We're going to try a map-based (eg armchair) road rally, http://home.earthlink.net/~oldmaltese/Massacre.html . Due to there having been a start-up cost for this event, I will be asking for contributions (say $5-10/family?) for those who come participate. Anyone bringing an additional "11x15 100-page-plus 2016 Rand McNally Road Atlas" (this same large scale copy MSRP $20, Amazon has for $15) will have their fee waived for their assistance uncrowding the map table.

I anticipate this being much better done by small groups, and it seems a bit lengthy. So we are going to host two pre-specified nights of map reading, and if Friday nights don't work well for you then email me off-list to request your available T/W/Sat/Sun timeframe and we'll see if we can work something out. Fees per family won't be re-collected at subsequent attendances.

6:30 pm at Tina's house (email for directions). Snack/beverage potluck only (come with dinner already in your belly).

Postmark deadline for submission of this for scoring is Monday February 29th, which realistically means we're going to have to mail it on Saturday the 27th, so our last potential night is Friday February 26th.

=== Lunch: Thursday February 18th ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.

=== Technical Meeting: Thursday March 10th ===
Marc Thomas, from NORLUG, on setting up and maintaining your own media server.

Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:

-PCIG elections

6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.

[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]

[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Jon G or Tina know.

=== Planned Social: March 2016, TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.

=== Planned Social: April 2016, TBD ===
Likely our annual Litter Bit Better trash pick up for Rochester beautification.

=== Technical Meeting: Thursday April 14th ===
Speaker needed, please let Tina or Jon G know if you're willing to volunteer. Willing to present but want to know what people have expressed interest in? Check out our [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=Meetings&action=submit#Requested_topics_list requested topics] page.

Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:

-PCIG second round of officer nominations (with elections in March)

6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.

[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]

[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Jon G or Tina know.

=== Pending potential presentations ===
[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
Oculus Rift], "the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games" . Peter Shabino

Jon Gullixson: gnucash or www :: Mechanize

=== Planned Socials: Fall or winter ===
-Murder mystery. The host needs to buy a kit at a gaming store to get the event started.

-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary

-Rock climbing at Prairie Walls

-Bowlocity laser tag. 5-6 people minimum needed.

-Liquid nitrogen ice cream. This needs a non-Tina organizer. Dennis DeLorme has 2 recipes. We need safety equipment and someone trained enough to keep us from freezing ourselves.

-MAME/foosball/ping pong at ... can't be Tim Massaro's anymore...

-February or July armchair mapping aka road rally event, http://home.earthlink.net/~oldmaltese/

=== Upcoming Meeting Crisis! ===
Well, not really a crisis, but we do need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2015. We'd like to know what you want to see and hear about. Please email Tina or Jon G 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 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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2016-02-12T16:36:54Z

Rpnix:

__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 ==

=== Social: Sunday, February 7th 2016 ===
Winterfest cardboard sled race spectating for our February social, Sunday February 7th, 1 pm. There IS an indoor viewing area, per the description, so no trekking through the snow required.

http://www.rochesterwinterfest.com/2015/01/07/cardboard-sled-race/

Rochester Golf and Country Club
3100 Country Club Road SW

=== Downtown Lunch: Thursday February 11th ===
11:30 am, 1st Avenue food court downtown, at the bigger tables near the entrance.

=== Technical Meeting: Thursday February 11th ===
Robert Nix, on LVM.

--

Using Logical Volume Manager can simplify your disk space management on both large and small Linux systems. This will be both an overview, and a look at specific commands and results. See how LVM can be used to streamline your Linux installation and maintenance.
[[File:lvm.odp]]

--

Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:

-PCIG second round of officer nominations (with elections in March)

6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.

[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]

[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Jon G or Tina know.

=== "January" Social: Fridays February 12th, 19th, plus others ===
We're going to try a map-based (eg armchair) road rally, http://home.earthlink.net/~oldmaltese/Massacre.html . Due to there having been a start-up cost for this event, I will be asking for contributions (say $5-10/family?) for those who come participate. Anyone bringing an additional "11x15 100-page-plus 2016 Rand McNally Road Atlas" (this same large scale copy MSRP $20, Amazon has for $15) will have their fee waived for their assistance uncrowding the map table.

I anticipate this being much better done by small groups, and it seems a bit lengthy. So we are going to host two pre-specified nights of map reading, and if Friday nights don't work well for you then email me off-list to request your available T/W/Sat/Sun timeframe and we'll see if we can work something out. Fees per family won't be re-collected at subsequent attendances.

6:30 pm at Tina's house (email for directions). Snack/beverage potluck only (come with dinner already in your belly).

Postmark deadline for submission of this for scoring is Monday February 29th, which realistically means we're going to have to mail it on Saturday the 27th, so our last potential night is Friday February 26th.

=== Lunch: Thursday February 18th ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.

=== Technical Meeting: Thursday March 10th ===
Marc Thomas, from NORLUG, on setting up and maintaining your own media server.

Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:

-PCIG elections

6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.

[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]

[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Jon G or Tina know.

=== Planned Social: March 2016, TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.

=== Planned Social: April 2016, TBD ===
Likely our annual Litter Bit Better trash pick up for Rochester beautification.

=== Technical Meeting: Thursday April 14th ===
Speaker needed, please let Tina or Jon G know if you're willing to volunteer. Willing to present but want to know what people have expressed interest in? Check out our [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=Meetings&action=submit#Requested_topics_list requested topics] page.

Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:

-PCIG second round of officer nominations (with elections in March)

6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.

[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]

[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Jon G or Tina know.

=== Pending potential presentations ===
[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
Oculus Rift], "the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games" . Peter Shabino

Jon Gullixson: gnucash or www :: Mechanize

=== Planned Socials: Fall or winter ===
-Murder mystery. The host needs to buy a kit at a gaming store to get the event started.

-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary

-Rock climbing at Prairie Walls

-Bowlocity laser tag. 5-6 people minimum needed.

-Liquid nitrogen ice cream. This needs a non-Tina organizer. Dennis DeLorme has 2 recipes. We need safety equipment and someone trained enough to keep us from freezing ourselves.

-MAME/foosball/ping pong at ... can't be Tim Massaro's anymore...

-February or July armchair mapping aka road rally event, http://home.earthlink.net/~oldmaltese/

=== Upcoming Meeting Crisis! ===
Well, not really a crisis, but we do need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2015. We'd like to know what you want to see and hear about. Please email Tina or Jon G 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 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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2016-02-12T16:36:22Z

Rpnix: Add slides from the presentation

__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 ==

=== Social: Sunday, February 7th 2016 ===
Winterfest cardboard sled race spectating for our February social, Sunday February 7th, 1 pm. There IS an indoor viewing area, per the description, so no trekking through the snow required.

http://www.rochesterwinterfest.com/2015/01/07/cardboard-sled-race/

Rochester Golf and Country Club
3100 Country Club Road SW

=== Downtown Lunch: Thursday February 11th ===
11:30 am, 1st Avenue food court downtown, at the bigger tables near the entrance.

=== Technical Meeting: Thursday February 11th ===
Robert Nix, on LVM.

--

Using Logical Volume Manager can simplify your disk space management on both large and small Linux systems. This will be both an overview, and a look at specific commands and results. See how LVM can be used to streamline your Linux installation and maintenance.
[[File:Lvm.odp]]

--

Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:

-PCIG second round of officer nominations (with elections in March)

6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.

[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]

[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Jon G or Tina know.

=== "January" Social: Fridays February 12th, 19th, plus others ===
We're going to try a map-based (eg armchair) road rally, http://home.earthlink.net/~oldmaltese/Massacre.html . Due to there having been a start-up cost for this event, I will be asking for contributions (say $5-10/family?) for those who come participate. Anyone bringing an additional "11x15 100-page-plus 2016 Rand McNally Road Atlas" (this same large scale copy MSRP $20, Amazon has for $15) will have their fee waived for their assistance uncrowding the map table.

I anticipate this being much better done by small groups, and it seems a bit lengthy. So we are going to host two pre-specified nights of map reading, and if Friday nights don't work well for you then email me off-list to request your available T/W/Sat/Sun timeframe and we'll see if we can work something out. Fees per family won't be re-collected at subsequent attendances.

6:30 pm at Tina's house (email for directions). Snack/beverage potluck only (come with dinner already in your belly).

Postmark deadline for submission of this for scoring is Monday February 29th, which realistically means we're going to have to mail it on Saturday the 27th, so our last potential night is Friday February 26th.

=== Lunch: Thursday February 18th ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.

=== Technical Meeting: Thursday March 10th ===
Marc Thomas, from NORLUG, on setting up and maintaining your own media server.

Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:

-PCIG elections

6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.

[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]

[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Jon G or Tina know.

=== Planned Social: March 2016, TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.

=== Planned Social: April 2016, TBD ===
Likely our annual Litter Bit Better trash pick up for Rochester beautification.

=== Technical Meeting: Thursday April 14th ===
Speaker needed, please let Tina or Jon G know if you're willing to volunteer. Willing to present but want to know what people have expressed interest in? Check out our [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=Meetings&action=submit#Requested_topics_list requested topics] page.

Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:

-PCIG second round of officer nominations (with elections in March)

6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.

[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]

[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Jon G or Tina know.

=== Pending potential presentations ===
[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
Oculus Rift], "the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games" . Peter Shabino

Jon Gullixson: gnucash or www :: Mechanize

=== Planned Socials: Fall or winter ===
-Murder mystery. The host needs to buy a kit at a gaming store to get the event started.

-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary

-Rock climbing at Prairie Walls

-Bowlocity laser tag. 5-6 people minimum needed.

-Liquid nitrogen ice cream. This needs a non-Tina organizer. Dennis DeLorme has 2 recipes. We need safety equipment and someone trained enough to keep us from freezing ourselves.

-MAME/foosball/ping pong at ... can't be Tim Massaro's anymore...

-February or July armchair mapping aka road rally event, http://home.earthlink.net/~oldmaltese/

=== Upcoming Meeting Crisis! ===
Well, not really a crisis, but we do need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2015. We'd like to know what you want to see and hear about. Please email Tina or Jon G 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 see this page for a list of suggested topics http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings

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

File:Lvm.odp

2016-02-12T16:34:17Z

Rpnix: Logical Volume Manager presentation slides - 02/11/2016 - Robert Nix

Logical Volume Manager presentation slides - 02/11/2016 - Robert Nix

Meetings

2013-04-29T18:30:52Z

Rpnix: Added two potential topics

__NOTOC__
= When do you meet? =

Technical meetings are once a month, during the second week of the month. As of August 2008 we are no longer on a rotating Tuesday/Thursday schedule, we're trying consistent second Thursdays. Meetings start at 6:00 PM. We often share space and speakers with [http://www.pcig.info/ PCIG].

Check the [http://www.k-lug.org/Main_Page Main] or [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social] pages 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 HA107. [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://lists.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
|-
| Michael Bleimeyer
| aircrack-ng/kismet demonstration
| April 2009
|
|-
| Mo Holaha
| Processing programming language, image processing
| March 2009
|
|-
| Club combined effort
| Keyboard Light Hack project, similar to this http://www.instructables.com/id/Illuminated-Keyboard-Hack/
| Apr 2009
| Phil Vitale, Tim Massaro,
|-
| Dennis DeLorme
| Arduino opensource software/hardware prototyping system http://www.arduino.cc/
| Feb 2009
| Ren Tescher, Tim Massaro,
|-
| Steve Fox
| PHP/MySQL programming
| Any
| Carter Lekatz, Tim Massaro, Tina Wood, Steve Severson, Brent Vrieze
|-
| Kevin Arhelger
| XEN/vmware virtualization
| Any
| Tina Wood, Tim M, Chris Abbey, Bob Nix, Steve Fox, Steve Severson, Brent Vrieze
|-
| Bill Marshall
| Samba
| ??
| Tina Wood, Tim M, Chris Abbey, Steve Severson, Brent Vrieze
|-
| Kevin Neff
| USB Hardware project
| ??
| Steve Fox, Tina Wood, Tim Massaro, Jim Evans, Brent Vrieze
|-
| Jose de Leon
| One Laptop Per Child
| This was held April 08
| Tina Wood, Steve Fox, Steve Severson
|-
| Robert Nix
| Cloning Linux images on the mainframe
| Held February 2008
| Tina Wood
|-
| Brent Vrieze
| Asterisk PBX (phone system)
| This was held October 2008
|
|}

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<googlecalendar>docid</googlecalendar>
Example:
from url http://calendar.google.com/calendarplay?docid=6444586097901795775
<googlecalendar>6444586097901795775</googlecalendar>

<googlecalendar>timmassaro%40gmail.com</googlecalendar>

= 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.

-comparison of different CAD software packages

-open source video editing applications

- puppy Linux, how to update/burn Gene Olson

-Tomato Firmware for Linksys router
Saw a podcast on Tomato, a replacement firmware for Linsys WRT54G/GLGS, WHR-G54S/WHR-HP-G4 router. Has some neat features, thinking about upgrading, that might be a good session/presentation??? http://www.polarcloud.com/tomation - Massaro

-Chrome

-Open source applications in Education - anyone have experience with any applications such as Moodle, Sakai, LTSP? What others are there?

-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

-Offsite backups

-Raspberry Pi / Beagleboard Beaglebone Black / uDoo - comparison and demonstration

-Raspberry Pi Day - Everyone bring in their Raspberry Pi; provide assistance in set-up and use

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

Meetings

2008-01-17T13:10:44Z

Rpnix: Add a potential topic

__NOTOC__
= 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. For clarification, we start counting with 1 like the regular calendar, not 0. That means Tuesday meetings are February, April, June, August, October, and December, although we will move them to coincide with the Thursday PCIG meetings if we're sharing a speaker that month. 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 HA107. [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://lists.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
| PHP/MySQL programming
| Any
| Carter Lekatz, Tim Massaro, Tina Wood, Steve Severson
|-
| Kevin Arhelger
| XEN/vmware virtualization
| Any
| Tina Wood, Tim M, Chris Abbey, Bob Nix, Steve Fox, Steve Severson
|-
| Bill Marshall
| Samba
| ??
| Tina Wood, Tim M, Chris Abbey, Steve Severson
|-
| Kevin Neff
| USB Hardware project
| ??
| Steve Fox, Tina Wood, Tim Massaro, Jim Evans
|-
| Jose de Leon
| One Laptop Per Child
| Any
| Tina Wood, Steve Fox, Steve Severson
|-
| Robert Nix
| Cloning Linux images on the mainframe
| 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.

-Open source applications in Education - anyone have experience with any applications such as Moodle, Sakai, LTSP? What others are there?

-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

Meetings

2007-07-17T19:06:20Z

Rpnix: Add name to interested parties list

__NOTOC__
= 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
|}

= 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.

-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

-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

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

BuildingFlickrApps

2006-11-08T14:53:08Z

Rpnix:

[[Category:Reviews]]
== Building Flickr Applications with PHP ==

Flickr is one of several new generation Web applications which have taken hold of the public's interest. Thousands of people now share their images with the world through their Flickr accounts.

The book "Building Flickr Applications with PHP", written by Rob Kunkle and Andrew Morton, introduces yet another way to use Flickr to present your photos. Aside from all the ways Flickr has provided on their site to share your pictures, they've also built an extensive API, accessible via PHP on your own web site.

"Building Flickr Apps" introduces this API, beginning with how to install the necessary tools, how to get the phlickr library, and how to get application keys from Flickr. It then walks through examples of the various API elements, from very simple tasks to some fairly complex examples of what can be done. It covers working with single photos and with your photo sets, how to use tags within the API, how to create an RSS photo feed, and how to use the API to interact with Flicker groups.

Each chapter of the book begins with simple, small examples and builds to a useful and robust web Page or useful task, giving you the basis to begin building your own application. Add a random photo from your Flickr stream to your own web page, or show your last six photos the way you want to show them. Get information about your photos, bring up tagged images, or create your own RSS feed for your friends and family. The beginnings are all here.

If you want to expand your use of Flickr to your own web site, this book is a good starting point. While there are instructions for getting and installing all the software needed (for both Windows and Linux) it is not an introduction to Apache or PHP. It does do a very good job of covering the link between Flickr and PHP, and the Potential there. If you're interested in photography and the web, give it a try.

-- Bob Nix

[http://www.amazon.com/Building-Flickr-Applications-PHP-Kunkle/dp/1590596129/sr=11-1/qid=1162996772/ref=sr_11_1/102-4929164-2380940 "Building Flickr Applications with PHP" on Amazon.com]

[http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10079 "Building Flickr Applications with PHP" on Apress]

BuildingFlickrApps

2006-11-08T14:50:25Z

Rpnix:

== Building Flickr Applications with PHP ==

Flickr is one of several new generation Web applications which have taken hold of the public's interest. Thousands of people now share their images with the world through their Flickr accounts.

The book "Building Flickr Applications with PHP", written by Rob Kunkle and Andrew Morton, introduces yet another way to use Flickr to present your photos. Aside from all the ways Flickr has provided on their site to share your pictures, they've also built an extensive API, accessible via PHP on your own web site.

"Building Flickr Apps" introduces this API, beginning with how to install the necessary tools, how to get the phlickr library, and how to get application keys from Flickr. It then walks through examples of the various API elements, from very simple tasks to some fairly complex examples of what can be done. It covers working with single photos and with your photo sets, how to use tags within the API, how to create an RSS photo feed, and how to use the API to interact with Flicker groups.

Each chapter of the book begins with simple, small examples and builds to a useful and robust web Page or useful task, giving you the basis to begin building your own application. Add a random photo from your Flickr stream to your own web page, or show your last six photos the way you want to show them. Get information about your photos, bring up tagged images, or create your own RSS feed for your friends and family. The beginnings are all here.

If you want to expand your use of Flickr to your own web site, this book is a good starting point. While there are instructions for getting and installing all the software needed (for both Windows and Linux) it is not an introduction to Apache or PHP. It does do a very good job of covering the link between Flickr and PHP, and the Potential there. If you're interested in photography and the web, give it a try.

-- Bob Nix

[http://www.amazon.com/Building-Flickr-Applications-PHP-Kunkle/dp/1590596129/sr=11-1/qid=1162996772/ref=sr_11_1/102-4929164-2380940 "Building Flickr Applications with PHP" on Amazon.com]

[http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10079 "Building Flickr Applications with PHP" on Apress]

BuildingFlickrApps

2006-11-08T14:48:22Z

Rpnix: Review - "Building Flickr Applications with PHP"

== Building Flickr Applications with PHP ==

Flickr is one of several new generation Web applications which have taken hold of the public's interest. Thousands of people now share their images with the world through their Flickr accounts.

The book "Building Flickr Applications with PHP", written by Rob Kunkle and Andrew Morton, introduces yet another way to use Flickr to present your photos. Aside from all the ways Flickr has provided on their site to share your pictures, they've also built an extensive API, accessible via PHP on your own web site.

"Building Flickr Apps" introduces this API, beginning with how to install the necessary tools, how to get the phlickr library, and how to get application keys from Flickr. It then walks through examples of the various API elements, from very simple tasks to some fairly complex examples of what can be done. It covers working with single photos and with your photo sets, how to use tags within the API, how to create an RSS photo feed, and how to use the API to interact with Flicker groups.

Each chapter of the book begins with simple, small examples and builds to a useful and robust web Page or useful task, giving you the basis to begin building your own application. Add a random photo from your Flickr stream to your own web page, or show your last six photos the way you want to show them. Get information about your photos, bring up tagged images, or create your own RSS feed for your friends and family. The beginnings are all here.

If you want to expand your use of Flickr to your own web site, this book is a good starting point. While there are instructions for getting and installing all the software needed (for both Windows and Linux) it is not an introduction to Apache or PHP. It does do a very good job of covering the link between Flickr and PHP, and the Potential there. If you're interested in photography and the web, give it a try.

[http://www.amazon.com/Building-Flickr-Applications-PHP-Kunkle/dp/1590596129/sr=11-1/qid=1162996772/ref=sr_11_1/102-4929164-2380940 "Building Flickr Applications with PHP" on Amazon.com]

[http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10079 "Building Flickr Applications with PHP" on Apress]

Presentations

2006-02-07T16:16:15Z

Rpnix:

== Presentations from K-LUG meetings ==

(need to convert from this page http://k-lug.org/old.site/presentations/ )

<H3> '''LCD initialization and operation''' (Dennis DeLorme; June 14th, 2005) </H3>
Information for our LCD constrution and programming project. [[LCDPresentation View Online]] [[http://k-lug.org/old.site/presentations/lcd/lcd_project.tar.gz Download the tarball]].

<H3> '''Intro to Linux: Part 1''' (Steve Fox; Nov 20, 2003)</H3>
Installation, dual-booting, running multiple operating systems simultaneously, and common applications for communicating with others. [[http://k-lug.org/old.site/presentations/intro/IntroToLinux-Part1.pdf PDF]].[

<H3> '''Configuring a Stateful Linux Firewall''' with IPTables/Netfilter (Tony Perrie)</H3>
Tony gives an introduction to the new iptables tool which controls the netfilter code in the Linux 2.4 kernels. He also explains his own firewall script. See his website for the script. [[http://involution.com/iptables_demo/index.html View Oneline]] [[http://k-lug.org/old.site/presentations/iptables/iptables_demo.pdf PDF]]

<H3> '''The command line is our friend:''' tar (David Sovinski)</H3>
David discusses 'tar' as a backup solution and how to integrate it with the 'find' utility. [[http://k-lug.org/old.site/presentations/tar/ View Online]]

<H3> '''Installing and using PostgreSQL''' (Patrick Spinler)</H3>
Learn the differences between the most popular Open Source databases, how to install PostgreSQL, and basic administration and access tools. [[http://k-lug.org/old.site/presentations/postgresql_presentation/postgresql_presentation.htm View Online]] or [[http://k-lug.org/old.site/presentations/tarballs/postgresql_presentation.tar.gz download the tarball]].

<H3> '''Creating the Ultimate Home Firewall and Intrusion Detection System'''...in under an hour (Derek Hunt)</H3>
If you've ever wondered about OpenBSD and/or how to create a secure firewall, this document is for you. download (PDF).

<H3> '''Using a Cryptographic File System''' (Dean Johnson)</H3>
Learn how to use the kernel crypto patches to make an encrypted file system. Find out what the HOWTOs forget to tell you. [[http://uberh4x0r.org/~dtj/CryptoFileSys View online]].

<H3> '''Find is your Friend''' (Rich Griswold)</H3>
Learn to harness the power of find, xargs, sed, and awk. Includes some advanced demonstrations as well. [[http://k-lug.org/old.site/presentations/find/index.html View online]] or [[http://k-lug.org/old.site/presentations/tarballs/find.tar.gz download the tarball]].

Meetings

2006-02-07T16:14:29Z

Rpnix: Undoing someone's idea of a joke...

__NOTOC__
= 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 Galleria Mall food court at 11:30 AM, next to the Chinese restaurant. Look for the geeks.

= Where do you meet? =

At the University Center Rochester Heinz Center in room HC122. [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Need directions?].

= 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 mailing list.

= Do you keep meeting minutes? =

Sometimes. See [[Minutes]].