GPS/Cartography slides now available
Posted 2006-08-22 15:05:00
The cartography presentation
slides are now online (a 7MB PDF file). Links for additional material
are also
available. Enjoy!
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GPS/Cartography talk this Monday!
Posted 2006-08-19 23:40:00
LUGOD meets at 6:30pm at the Library this
Monday for a presentation on GPS & Cartography
software for Linux!
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"Stupid Net Tricks with AJAX" at SacLUG next month
Posted 2006-08-19 01:40:00
The Sacramento Linux Users' Group meets
on September 14th. Linus Sphinx will present part 3 of his continuing XML
series, "Lethal Codin' III: This time it's portable," in which he will
walk through the conversion of a web-based video game "into a completely
table/frame/flash free interactive graphical wonder, demonstrating the
awesome power of AJAX, CSS2, XHTML, XML and XSLT." This talk "may just
alter your perception of web design completely, as you witness his
fledgling MMORPG staggering to it's feet."
Also, Brian Lavender will present a short slide show and
tales from his visit with the Linux User Group of Havana, Cuba.
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LinuxWorld Expo, Ubucon & Picn*x XV this week
Posted 2006-08-15 14:25:00
LinuxWorld Expo is taking place this week (through Thursday)
at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
LinuxWorld is immediately followed by
Ubucon, the
Ubuntu Linux conference in
Mountain View (on Friday & Saturday), and
Picn*x XV, the
Linux 15th anniversary
picnic & BBQ in Sunnyvale on Saturday. (The picnic is free,
just RSVP!)
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Flyer for August's GPS/Cartography talk
Posted 2006-08-10 15:30:00
Please consider taking a moment to print out the
flyer for the next meeting and
posting it somewhere nice, so we
get a good turn out for Dylan's GPS/Cartography
presentation. Thanks!
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Events calendar updated
Posted 2006-08-10 15:20:00
Our calendar of local user group events has been
updated through September. If you know of any events we should add,
contact the webmaster.
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SacAUG needs a meeting organizer
Posted 2006-08-10 15:10:00
The Sacramento Asterisk Users Group
is in need of a new organizer
for their meetings. Contact them
if you'd like to help out.
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Social Gathering Tonight @ Delta of Venus
Posted 2006-08-01 10:55:00
LUGOD members meet tonight at the
Delta of Venus café
in downtown Davis for a social gathering. (Free. No RSVP required.)
(This event coindices with this week's
Davis
Hacking Society meeting, so there's another reason to go!)
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Picn*x Accepting RSVPs
Posted 2006-07-30 17:45:00
Picn*x XV, the Linux
15th Anniversary Picnic & BBQ in Sunnyvale, is now accepting
RSVPs!
(If you'd like to help out, check out the
Volunteer
page.)
The event is free, and put together by various local user groups
(including LUGOD), and sponsored by numerous companies and organizations.
It once again takes place on the Saturday following
LinuxWorld Expo
(this year, August 19th) at Sunnyvale Baylands Park.
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Davis Wiki fundraiser this Saturday evening
Posted 2006-07-27 11:45:00
Davis Wiki is holding their
first annual
fundraiser at the Turtle
House at 7pm on Saturday.
Philip Neustrom from Davis Wiki writes:
"Of particular relevance to LUGOD is our commitment to free
software and free conten: in our day to day operations we use only
free software, and the wiki engine we maintain, Sycamore, is also free
software!" (For more, see his
post on
vox-outreach.)
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Jobs in Brisbane, Fremont and SF
Posted 2006-07-22 14:25:00
Are you a Java developer, sysadmin, netadmin or high-performace junkie
looking for work? Check out the latest jobs postings!
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Software Freedom Day in September
Posted 2006-07-18 14:05:00
LUGOD is planning to once again participate in
Software Freedom Day,
which takes place this year on Saturday, Sept. 16th. If you're
interested in helping out, post a note to our
'vox-outreach' mailing list.
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iptables talk on Monday
Posted 2006-07-14 17:05:00
Ryan Castellucci will be covering the basic operation of iptables,
as well as patch-o-matic, at Monday's LUGOD meeting.
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Photos from July 4th
Posted 2006-07-08 10:45:00
Some photos from LUGOD's July 4th
Social Gathering in Benicia are now online. Enjoy!
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LUGOD members invited to Benicia
Posted 2006-07-04 13:55:00
Adam Yergovich has invited LUGOD members to watch fireworks and enjoy food
and video games in Benicia. See
his post to
'vox'.
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More new jobs posted
Posted 2006-06-30 13:55:00
Five more jobs have been posted to our jobs page.
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LUGOD's FAQ lives again!
Posted 2006-06-20 11:20:00
We're once again able to generate the
LUGOD Frequently Asked Questions
document, based on its SGML source.
Now is a great time to give suggestions for additions and improvements.
Send them to the webmaster!
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Xen virtual server give-aways
Posted 2006-06-19 16:05:00
Luke wrote in to let us know that the first 10 people that ask (in person,
at tonight's meeting) will receive a Xen virtual
server with 32MB of RAM, courtesy of Prgmr.com.
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Xen talk tonight
Posted 2006-06-19 10:10:00
LUGOD meets tonight at 6:30pm, at the
Davis Public library.
Xen virtual
machines will be discussed!
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Picn*x XV logo contest
Posted 2006-06-15 12:05:00
This August marks the 15th birthday of the Linux kernel, and the
local Linux community is once again throwing a picnic and barbecue to
celebrate! Picn*x XV will
be held on Sunday, August 19th in Sunnyvale. The coordinators are holding
a logo creation
contest (and are looking for volunteers).
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Linux Events Calendar updated
Posted 2006-06-08 13:40:00
Our calendar of local (Linux) user group meetings
has been updated. If you know of any events that aren't listed, please
contact the webmaster!
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Davis Hacking Society coincides with LUGOD Socials
Posted 2006-06-08 13:17:00
It appears that the
Davis Hacking
Society meetings now coincide with LUGOD's social gatherings
(first Tuesday of each month) and at the same location
(the Delta of Venus cafe). So there's now twice as many reasons
to hit Venus each month!
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ZUGOD now Davis Plone Meetup Group
Posted 2006-06-08 13:15:00
The Zope/Plone Users Group of Davis is now known as the
Davis Plone Meetup Group, and
has a meetup.com site.
Their next meetup is scheduled for July 13th.
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LUGOD.org down time tomorrow
Posted 2006-06-02 12:30:00
LUGOD mailing lists and web site will experience a bit of downtime
tomorrow (Saturday, June 3rd) as Rod attempts to upgrade the server
from Ubuntu Hoary to the shiny new Ubuntu Dapper Drake.
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Picnix XV is being planned
Posted 2006-05-18 12:00:00
Planning is under way for this year's
Linux Anniversary Picnic & BBQ
(Picn*x XV), celebrating Linux's 15th birthday! The event takes place
at the Sunnyale Baylands Park on Saturday, August 19th. (Folks from
Davis and Sacramento will no doubt be carpooling!) If you can help out,
sign up as a volunteer!
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Whole Earth Festival this weekend
Posted 2006-05-10 14:30:00
Whole Earth Festival takes place at
UC Davis this weekend
(Friday thru Sunday). LUGOD has exhibited at WEF
the previous 4 years, but is taking a break this year.
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Social gathering at Delta of Venus
Posted 2006-05-01 23:25:00
LUGOD members will meet this Tuesday at the
Delta of Venus cafe in downtown Davis.
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gtkmm slides now online
Posted 2006-04-25 13:50:00
Meeting minutes and
presentation slides from
Doug Barbieri's presentation on "gtkmm" are now online!
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gtkmm talk tonight
Posted 2006-04-17 09:30:00
Doug Barbieri will be discussing "gtkmm" ("GTK minus minus"), the official
C++ interface to the open source GTK+ GUI library, at
tonight's LUGOD meeting. 6:30pm at the
Davis Public Library.
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Installfest this Saturday
Posted 2006-04-12 13:50:00
LUGOD is holding a free Linux Installfest Workshop this
Saturday. Please RSVP if you would like bring your
computer in to get Linux installed. If you'd like to help, or just come watch
how it works, that's fine too! Contact the
installfest coordinators if you'd like to help at the event!
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Installfest flyer
Posted 2006-04-03 22:25:00
Chris McKenzie has created a great tax-day-themed
flyer for this month's
Installfest. Please print and post it!
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March 20th meeting minutes
Posted 2006-03-28 23:45:00
Meeting minutes from
March 20th's meeting are now available.
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Slides from DVD Authoring talk
Posted 2006-03-28 00:55:00
Presentation slides from last
week's DVD authoring presentation are now online. Enjoy!
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DVD Authoring presentation tonight
Posted 2006-03-20 00:25:00
Kyle Rankin, author of a number of O'Reilly & Assoc. books, including
Linux Multimedia Hacks, will be speaking at
tonight's LUGOD meeting at the
Davis Public Library.
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Installfest canceled
Posted 2006-03-17 13:50:00
Tomorrow's Installfest has been canceled due to low
registration.
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Flyers posted!
Posted 2006-03-12 16:10:00
Thanks to Ryan Castellucci, Nick Schmalenberger and Greg Thrasher for
posting flyers around UC Davis today!
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Flyer posting campaign today!
Posted 2006-03-12 00:35:00
LUGOD members will be meeting at the bus depot near the
UC Davis Memorial
Union at 1:00pm to post flyers for our
upcoming meeting around UCD campus and downtown Davis.
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Flyer for DVD talk
Posted 2006-03-10 19:00:00
A flyer for March 20th's DVD authoring talk is now available
on the Flyers page.
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Team Aggie Spirit seeking Linux & C experts
Posted 2006-03-09 11:55:00
UC Davis'
Team Aggie Spirit (working
to create an autonomous ground vehicle to race in the
DARPA Grand Challenge)
are looking for C programmers and Linux experts. (You do not need to be
a student.) See
Gregory
Thrasher's post to our 'vox' mailing
list for details.
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Numerous job posts
Posted 2006-03-08 11:25:00
A number of new jobs have been posted to our
Jobs page (as well as to
vox-jobs) over the past few weeks.
If you're looking for work, check them out!
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Social gathering tonight at Delta of Venus
Posted 2006-03-07 10:50:00
LUGOD members will meet tonight at the
Delta of Venus cafe in downtown Davis.
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Officer's Meeting Minutes
Posted 2006-03-03 12:15:00
Minutes from yesterday's officer's
meeting are now available. Enjoy!
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Officer's Meeting
Posted 2006-02-27 15:50:00
LUGOD's officers are meeting on Thursday, March 2nd. If you would like
to make arrangements to attend, or have any issues that you would like
discussed, please contact Henry House
(root@lugod.org) before the meeting.
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XML/RSS Newsfeed
Posted 2006-02-26 13:05:00
An RSS newsfeed of recent LUGOD news and
announcements is now available, along with a separate
news page where older news will now be archived.
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Drupal notes
Posted 2006-02-25 18:00:00
Minutes and
a list of Drupal links
from this week's Drupal presentation by Steven Peck are now online.
Enjoy!
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Next meeting at Delta of Venus
Posted 2006-02-24 18:00:00
Our next meeting
(a social gathering) will likely be held at
Delta of Venus café
(on B Street in downtown Davis, near the east side of
UC Davis campus.)
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January Installfest results
Posted 2006-01-22 18:00:00
About 20 people RSVPed for yesterday's installfest, and lots of
people volunteered their time to come help, under the coordination
of both Seth Nagao and Chris McKenzie. Nick Schmalenberger's
employer donated pizza, as well. Some
photos of the Installfest are
online.
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Linux Microcontroller notes
Posted 2006-01-18 18:00:00
Minutes,
photos and
example code from
this week's presentation on Linux microcontrollers are now available!
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