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GoGrid slides available
Posted 2008-12-16 15:35:00
 Slides from last night's presentation on cloud computing and hosting, and
GoGrid's services, are now available
(PowerPoint). Meeting minutes
are also available.
 Permalink Officers elected
 Posted 2008-11-18 00:35:00
 Running upposed, Bill Kendrick remains 'root' (president),
Nick Schmalenberger remains 'typescript' (secretary)
and Henry House remains '/dev/null' (treasurer).
Noone was nominated for 'sys' (vice president), so Bill Kendrick continues
filling that role until someone comes forward.
 Permalink Planning for 10th anniversary
 Posted 2008-11-17 15:30:00
 A brief planning page has been constructed,
to help make our 10th anniversary meeting in January
go smoothly. If you'd like to help, or wish to donate some give-aways,
let us know!
 Permalink LUGOD officer elections begin tomorrow!
 Posted 2008-11-16 16:25:00
 Send your nominations for officers to
typescript prior to
tomorrow's meeting.
 Permalink Plone Group joins LUGOD Installfest on Saturday
 Posted 2008-11-05 00:20:00
 Members of the Plone Users Group of Davis 
will be presenting a workshop on the Plone content management system
during our Installfest workshop
this Saturday, at UC Davis. (Don't forget to RSVP!)
 Permalink "code_swarm" presentation slides and photos
 Posted 2008-10-20 23:15:00
 Now available: presentation slides
(420KB PDF), photos and
minutes from last night's
LUGOD meeting.
 Permalink Bylaws change regard elections
 Posted 2008-10-20 22:20:00
 Due to general meetings being held once per month, rather than twice, it
now takes between one and two months for the nomination and election process
for LUGOD's officers. President Bill Kendrick put forth a motion at tonight's
meeting to change officer terms into year-long positions, with voting taking
place once a year, in October. Bill Broadley seconded, and the vote passed
with no objections (and one abstention). Our
Bylaws have been adjusted, accordingly.
 Permalink code_swarm talk tonight!
 Posted 2008-10-20 10:00:00
 LUGOD meets tonight at 7pm
at the Davis Public Library
for a presentation on
code_swarm.
(Officer nomations also begin!)
 Permalink Installfest this Saturday
 Posted 2008-09-25 12:25:00
 LUGOD is holding a free Linux installfest workshop this
Saturday at UC Davis. Please register by tomorrow
if you'd like to bring a computer.  Also, a discussion on the
"pros and cons of partitioning" will take place at the event.
 Permalink Photos from Software Freedom Day 2008
 Posted 2008-09-22 18:10:00
 Check out a few photos from LUGOD's table
at Farmer's Market for Software Freedom Day.
 Permalink See you at Farmers Market!
 Posted 2008-09-19 18:10:00
 LUGOD members will be at the
Davis Farmer's Market
tomorrow, celebrating Software Freedom Day '08.
Drop by and say 'hi', and don't forget to send your friends over to
visit us, too!
 Permalink Flyer for Sept. Installfest
 Posted 2008-09-18 17:30:00
 A flyer is now available for Sept. 27th's
Installfest Workshop. Please print and post!
 Permalink libcrtxy slides online
 Posted 2008-09-15 22:15:00
 Slides from tonight's talk on libcrtxy are
now online. Enjoy!
 Permalink September Installfest scheduled
 Posted 2008-08-30 15:40:00
 Our next Installfest workshop will take place in the
"Zinfandel" lounge at the Experimental College at UC Davis
(upstairs in the South Silo building).  Please be sure to
register if you'd like to get Linux installed on
your computer!
 Permalink Siafoo slides and photos online
 Posted 2008-08-19 14:05:00
 David Isaacson and Stou Sandalski, creators of Siafoo, presented a great
talk at last night's LUGOD meeting. Check out the
photos, their
presentation slides
(770KB PDF) as well as
minutes from the meeting's
official business. Enjoy!
 Permalink Flyers for upcoming meetings
 Posted 2008-08-05 16:45:00
 Flyers are available for our next four general meetings:
August: Siafoo,
September: libcrtxy,
October: code_swarm and
November: ZaReason.
 Permalink Linux on Laptops
 Posted 2008-07-23 19:00:00
 Photos of the Linux on Laptops Roundtable,
plus meeting minutes, are now
available. Enjoy!
 Permalink Registering for Software Freedom Day
 Posted 2008-07-23 15:00:00
 We are registering for SFD'08, and have updated our
SFD and demo pages.
We've requested 50 Ubuntu CDs from ShipIt, but burns of
other discs would be appreciated (especially if
Ubuntu can't get theirs to us in time!)
 Permalink LinuxWorld Expo, Picn*x and Software Freedom Day
 Posted 2008-07-22 01:10:00
 LWE takes place in
San Francisco August 4-7, and there will be a LUG booth!
If you'd like to help, contact
Jim Stockford of SF-LUG.
The annual Linux anniversary
picnic & BBQ takes place the following Saturday, August 9th.
You can now RSVP. And finally,
Software Freedom Day 08
will be on September 20th. LUGOD is hoping to hold a
hands-on Linux demo, probably once
again at the Davis Farmer's Market. Post a note
to our 'vox-outreach' mailing list
if you can help out!
 Permalink Installfest tomorrow; Laptop roundtable Monday
 Posted 2008-07-18 15:30:00
 Don't forget, LUGOD is holding an
Installfest workshop tomorrow at UC Davis.
And on Monday, we're meeting at the
Davis Public Library, where a number of members will be discussing
Linux on laptops.
 Permalink code_swarm talk in October
 Posted 2008-06-20 12:05:00
 Michael Ogawa of UC Davis'
Visualization &
Interface Design Innovation group (VIDI) and creator of code_swarm, a
project used to organically visualized open source contributions (see
this
Slashdot article) has agreed to come speak at LUGOD. We've got him
penciled in for our October 20th
meeting.
 Permalink Photos, minutes and handout from Monday's OpenSSL meeting
 Posted 2008-06-18 17:40:00
 You can now read over the meeting
minutes, view the photos, and
read the handout sheet from this
past Monday's talk on OpenSSL.
 Permalink LUGODers of the Quarter
 Posted 2008-06-17 14:00:00
 Alex Mandel and Chris McKenzie were both awarded as
LUGODers of the Quarter
at last night's meeting. We thank them for their many recent contributions,
especially with running our Installfest workshops.
 Permalink Calendar updated
 Posted 2008-06-07 17:15:00
 Once again we spent some time trawling local user group websites to find out
what events are coming up, and have updated our
calendar. Enjoy!
 Permalink OpenStreetMap meeting minutes, photos and slides
 Posted 2008-05-20 20:00:00
 The special LUGOD meeting with GLOBAL
last week as a great success. Check out the
photos, the
presentation
slides (21MB PDF), and the
minutes from the meeting. Enjoy!
 Permalink LUGOD is at Whole Earth Festival!
 Posted 2008-05-10 14:15:00
 
 ![[Whole Earth Festival 2008]](/projects/wef/2008/wef2008.png) Chris McKenzie and Nick Schmalenberger put a LUGOD booth at
Whole Earth Festival (at UC Davis)
together at the last minute, and are staffing the booth this weekend
(so far, alone!). If you can help, please drop by — our booth is near
the solar array, north of the Quad Stage.
Also, check out the photos. Thanks! Permalink OpenStreetMap and May Installfest announced
 Posted 2008-05-06 17:10:00
 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)
 Permalink Whole Earth Festival 2008
 Posted 2008-05-06 08:40:00
 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!
 Permalink Photos from Yolo County Child Development Conference
 Posted 2008-04-28 08:00:00
 LUGOD's booth at the 2008 YCCDC was a success!
You can see some photos, here.
Enjoy, and thanks to our volunteers!
 Permalink CTL slides and meeting minutes
 Posted 2008-04-22 19:10:00
 Last night's meeting's minutes and
presentation slides (800KB PDF)
on "CTL" are now available.
 Permalink Officer Elections (mostly)
 Posted 2008-04-22 09:35:00
 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.
 Permalink Some handouts for the Child Development Conference
 Posted 2008-04-13 11:20:00
 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!
 Permalink April LUGOD events
 Posted 2008-04-01 11:25:00
 This month at LUGOD:
 Permalink Club changes
 Posted 2008-03-18 09:20:00
 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.
 Permalink Our exhibit at Child Development Conf. confirmed
 Posted 2008-03-15 14:15:00
 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.
 Permalink LUGOD installfests moving!
 Posted 2008-03-14 14:15:00
 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.
 Permalink OSSIM at March LUGOD
 Posted 2008-03-11 17:00:00
 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!
 Permalink LUG calendar updated
 Posted 2008-03-08 11:20:00
 We've updated the calendar of local and LUG events.
Enjoy!
 Permalink Geocaching talk online
 Posted 2008-02-20 17:25:00
 Meeting minutes,
photos and
presentation slides
(3.5MB PDF) from this week's talk on GPS and geocaching are now online.
Enjoy!
 Permalink Project planning for LUGOD at the Yolo County Child Development Conference
 Posted 2008-02-20 10:40:00
 We've put together a project page for LUGOD's
exhibit table at this April's
Yolo
County Child Development Conference.
 Permalink LUGOD at the Yolo County Child Development Conference
 Posted 2008-02-20 09:00:00
 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.
 Permalink Installfest for Northern California schools
 Posted 2008-02-16 14:45:00
 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!
 Permalink March Installfest scheduled
 Posted 2008-02-15 17:35:00
 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.
 Permalink Photos from January's anniversary meeting
 Posted 2008-02-15 10:10:00
 Photos of "The Digital Tipping Point" talk
at LUGOD's 9th birthday meeting in January are now online. Enjoy!
 Permalink Geocaching with Linux at Feb. 18th meeting
 Posted 2008-02-12 13:45:00
 Wes Hardaker has offered to speak about
geocaching with
Linux at next Monday's meeting.
 Permalink Events calendar updated
 Posted 2008-02-11 05:30:00
 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.
 Permalink Recycle your electronics this weekend
 Posted 2008-01-14 13:30:00
 An "e-waste" collection is taking place this Saturday (9am-4pm) at
Fry's Electronics in Sacramento. More
at ASL Recycling's website.
 Permalink Come to LUGOD's 9th birthday!
 Posted 2008-01-14 13:25:00
 
  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. Permalink Installfest on January 26th
 Posted 2008-01-13 12:45:00
 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.
 Permalink January Social cancelled; "Digital Tipping Point" flyer available
 Posted 2007-12-29 19:00:00
 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.
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