May 6 - OpenStreetMap and May Installfest announced
Our next general meeting
will be on a special day,
Friday May 16th at
Giedt Hall at UC Davis.
Steve Coast, creator of
OpenStreetMap will be
speaking. (Flyer)
The following day, Saturday May 17th, we'll be holding our next
installfest. Please register
if you'd like to bring your PC to this free workshop.
(Flyer)
May 6 - Whole Earth Festival 2008
We just discovered that the WEF coordinators did receive our application,
and we have a booth! A coordinator and volunteers are needed ASAP if we're
going to attend this event! It's this
weekend: Friday, May 9th thru Sunday, May 11th!
Apr. 28 - Photos from Yolo County Child Development Conference
LUGOD's booth at the 2008 YCCDC was a success!
You can see some photos, here.
Enjoy, and thanks to our volunteers!
Apr. 22 - CTL slides and meeting minutes
Last night's meeting's minutes and
presentation slides (800KB PDF)
on "CTL" are now available.
Apr. 22 - Officer Elections (mostly)
Running unopposed, and with no objections from the attendance at
last night's meeting,
LUGOD's officers were elected:
Bill Kendrick was elected root (president),
Henry House was elected to remain /dev/null (treasurer),
and Nick Schmalenberger was elected to remain typescript (secretary).
Noone was nominated for sys (vice president), so Bill Kendrick
currently maintains that position. Nominations continue to be open
for sys; send your nomination to
typescript.
Apr. 13 - Some handouts for the Child Development Conference
We've started creating some handouts to give out at the
Yolo County Child Development Conference,
which you can find on our
Handouts page. If you'd like to
contribute something, please send it to us!
Apr. 1 - April LUGOD events
This month at LUGOD:
Mar. 18 - Club changes
At last night's meeting, LUGOD
members voted to change our bylaws
to end our long-running lending library.
The rules for officer was also changed.
In the past, nominations opened after Daylight Savings changes, but
due to last year's change in Daylight Savings rules, the officership periods
were no longer 6 months long. In the future, they will occur in April and
October. Finally, a consensus was made to start
LUGOD meetings at 7:00pm, rather than
6:30pm.
Mar. 15 - Our exhibit at Child Development Conf. confirmed
LUGOD has received confirmation that we'll have a table at the
Yolo County Child Development Conference
in April. If you'd like to volunteer to staff the table, and/or
can help created handouts (printed pamphlets, CDROMs, etc.), please
post a message to our 'vox-outreach'
mailing list, or send an email to
Bill Kendrick.
Mar. 14 - LUGOD installfests moving!
Beginning in April, our Installfest workshops will be held
at the "Zinfandel Lounge" at the
Experimental
College at UC Davis. Our next Installfest will be on
Sunday, April 13th, and you may
register to attend now.
Mar. 11 - OSSIM at March LUGOD
Brian Lavender will be speaking at next Monday's LUGOD
meeting (March 17th) about the
Open Source Security Information Management
project (OSSIM). Please join us!
Mar. 8 - LUG calendar updated
We've updated the calendar of local and LUG events.
Enjoy!
Feb. 20 - Geocaching talk online
Meeting minutes,
photos and
presentation slides
(3.5MB PDF) from this week's talk on GPS and geocaching are now online.
Enjoy!
Feb. 20 - Project planning for LUGOD at the Yolo County Child Development Conference
We've put together a project page for LUGOD's
exhibit table at this April's
Yolo
County Child Development Conference.
Feb. 20 - LUGOD at the Yolo County Child Development Conference
LUGOD will be attending the
Yolo
County Child Development Conference, which takes place on
Saturday, April 26th at the Veterans' Memorial Center in
Davis (next door to the library). We'll set up an event planning web page
soon. In the meantime, if you'd like to find out more, or volunteer,
contact Bill Kendrick, or post
a message to LUGOD's 'vox-outreach'
mailing list.
Feb. 16 - Installfest for Northern California schools
Help spread open source software, help bridge the "Digital Divide",
and help keep 12 tons of toxic computer equipment out of landfills!
Untangle and the
Alameda County Computer Resource Center
are holding an installfest
to put Linux on hundreds of refurbished old/discarded computers, which will
be donated to Bay Area schools. It takes place Saturday March 1st,
simultaneously in San Francisco, San Mateo, Berkeley and
Novato. Sign-up to
volunteer!
Feb. 15 - March Installfest scheduled
We'll be holding a free Linux Installfest Workshop
on Sunday, March 2nd at UC Davis. Please be sure to
register ahead of time if you'd like to bring your
computer to this event.
Feb. 15 - Photos from January's anniversary meeting
Photos of "The Digital Tipping Point" talk
at LUGOD's 9th birthday meeting in January are now online. Enjoy!
Feb. 12 - Geocaching with Linux at Feb. 18th meeting
Wes Hardaker has offered to speak about
geocaching with
Linux at next Monday's meeting.
Feb. 11 - Events calendar updated
Our calendar of local events has been updated.
If you're looking for something local (or not so local) related to Linux
(or not so Linux), check it out. Email
us if you have any events you'd like listed.
Jan. 14 - Recycle your electronics this weekend
An "e-waste" collection is taking place this Saturday (9am-4pm) at
Fry's Electronics in Sacramento. More
at ASL Recycling's website.
Jan. 14 - Come to LUGOD's 9th birthday!
LUGOD celebrates our 9th year serving the Davis community, next Monday,
January 21st at the Davis Public Library.
Our guest speaker is the producer of
The Digital Tipping Point,
a documentary film series about open source software.
We'll have free pizza and cake, too!
More info on our meeting page.
Jan. 13 - Installfest on January 26th
LUGOD is holding this year's first free Linux Installfest
Workshop. Bring your computer to this event and volunteers will help
you install and configure the Linux operating system!
All day (10am-6pm) Saturday, January 26th at Kemper Hall,
room 1131, at UC Davis. Please register
ahead of time.
Dec. 29 - January Social cancelled; "Digital Tipping Point" flyer available
January's regularly-scheduled social gathering landed on New Years,
so we've decided to cancel that event. Join us on
Monday, January 21st for a presentation on
The Digital Tipping Point,
a documentary film project about open source software, and to celebrate
LUGOD's 9th birthday!
A flyer for this event is also
now available.
Dec. 17 - Officer election results
Running unopposed, and with no objections from the attending members,
LUGOD's officers have been elected. Our current set of officers continue in
their positions: Henry House as 'root' (president) and '/dev/null'
(treasurer), Bill Kendrick as 'sys' (vice president) and
Nick Schmalenberger as 'typescript' (secretary).
Dec. 17 - Tux Paint "Magic" Plug-in API presentation
Presentation slides and
example code from tonight's presentation on Tux Paint's "Magic" API
are now available.
Dec. 4 - Adobe Flex and ActionScript example code posted
Seth Duffey has given us a tar
ball (2.1MB) of the example code and data from his presentation at
LUGOD last month. Enjoy!
Nov. 16 - Flyer for December Installfest
Alex Mandel has created a
flyer (PDF, 1.7MB) for our upcoming Installfest. Please print and post!
Nov. 14 - Installfest on December 1st
Our next Linux Installfest Workshop will be on
Saturday, December 1st. Be sure to register,
if you plan to attend!
Nov. 13 - Sysadmin, Ruby on Rails, Kernel engineer, UI architect and more...
Ten new positions in the Sacramento and Bay Areas have just been posted
to our Jobs page.
Nov. 7 - $200 Ubuntu Linux PC available at Wal-Mart
On our 'vox' mailing list, Scot directed us to
a Wired
blog post about the Everex TC2502 Green gPC, a $200 PC that comes with
Ubuntu Linux pre-installed.
(The blog mentions it's available at the Woodland Wal*Mart, but their own site
only shows Fairfield, and that it's currently out of stock.)
Nov. 7 - Adobe Flex and ActionScript for Linux this month
Seth Duffey, now a developer at WeBot.com,
will be discussing Adobe's Flex and ActionScript web application development
tools, which are now available for Linux! At our
November 19th meeting at
the Library.
Oct. 26 - Google, Penguin Computing and more are hiring
Looking for work? Check out the new positions we just posted on our
Jobs page!
Oct. 18 - Notes from "Google Summer of Code"
Kevin Schultz of LUGOD posted some notes he took from this week's talk,
and they are now available
on our Presentations page.
Oct. 18 - This weekend's Installfest confirmed
Our free Linux 'Installfest' workshop has been confirmed:
this Saturday, 10am to 6pm at UC Davis. (Don't forget to
register.) Volunteers welcome, and needed!
Oct. 17 - Google meeting mentioned in California Aggie
This week's meeting on "Google Summer of Code" was
written up in an article in UC Davis's
The California Aggie newspaper.
(It was on the
front page!)
Oct. 15 - Photos from "Google Summer of Code"
Now available: photos and
meeting minutes from tonight's
LUGOD meeting, with Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source
Program Manager at Google, Inc. on the
"Google Summer of Code" program.
Oct. 7 - Free Pizza at "Google Summer of Code" presentation
LUGOD will be serving free pizza at our next meeting,
Monday, October 15th. Be sure to arrive on time...
it will be first come, first served!
Oct. 7 - Second October Installfest
We've tentatively planned to hold a second
Installfest workshop this month, on
Saturday, October 20th at UC Davis.
Oct. 5 - Installfest room change
Our Installfest will, in fact, last until 6:00pm.
We've reserved Room 1127 of Kemper Hall at UC Davis
(which is adjacent to 1131, where we typically hold them).
Additionally, we are tentatively planning another Installfest this month,
on Saturday October 20th.
Oct. 3 - Installfest time change
Our Installfest this Saturday, Oct. 6th, needs to be
over by 3pm. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Sep. 29 - Flyer for "Google Summer of Code" in October
A new full-page flyer for LUGOD's
October presentation by Google
is available. Please print and post at your favorite coffee shop, in the
office, at the laundromat, etc.!
Sep. 25 - Photos from July meeting and Software Freedom Day
Photos are now online from July's meeting on
Post-Processing High Dynamic Range (HDR) Panoramas Using Open Source Tools and from LUGOD's
demo at the Farmer's Market for
Software Freedom Day. Enjoy.
Sep. 24 - Working with Valley Oak Charter
Valley Oak Elementary school in Davis is being closed by the district, but
there are hopes to turn it into a
charter school,
with a technology
magnet. At Farmer's Market, during
Software Freedom Day, LUGOD members spoke with
volunteers from Valley Oak Charter
about Linux and Open Source, and they're very interested in the
topic. If you'd like to be involved in discussions -- we may simply provide
information and direction, or we may end up volunteering time and/or
equipment (as we did with Davis High School in the past) -- please
subscribe to our 'vox-outreach'
mailing list and help start the discussion.
Sep. 18 - New jobs posted
We went through a backlog of job postings and added them to our
jobs page. If you're looking for work, check it out!
And if you're hiring, let us know.
(Don't forget our 'vox-jobs' mailing
list too.)
Sep. 17 - October Installfest Scheduled
LUGOD will be holding a free Linux Installfest workshop
at UC Davis early in October: Saturday the 6th. Please be sure to
register in advance if you'd like to get Linux
installed and configured on your computer. If you want to help volunteer
at this event, post a message to our 'vox-if'
mailing list.
Sep. 16 - KDRT at LUGOD tomorrow
Folks from KDRT FM in Davis will be discussing how they use Linux and
Open Source to run their local, low-power radio station, at tomorrow's
LUGOD meeting, 6:30pm at the
Davis Public Library.
Sep. 16 - Software Freedom Day a success
Nick Schmalenberger, Grace, Alex Mandel, Henry House and Bill Kendrick
assembled a Linux demonstration booth at the Davis Farmers Market yesterday as
part of international Software Freedom Day. We handed out lots of info. on
Linux, LUGOD and Open Source, flyers for our upcoming meetings, and
Knoppix and Ubuntu CDs, as well as answered questions and chatted with many
passers-by.
Sep. 13 - Flyer for September and October meetings
A flyer is available for our
next two general meetings. Please print and post!
Sep. 10 - LUGOD Celebrates Software Freedom Day at Farmer's Market
The Linux Users' Group of Davis will be
participating in Software Freedom Day by holding
a hands-on Linux demonstration at the
Davis Farmer's Market
(Central Park, 4th & C Streets) this
Saturday, September 15th from 8:00am to 1:00pm.
Volunteers
and equipment are needed!
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