Dec. 17 - ZaReason slides available
Slides from last month's talk by ZaRason CEO Cathy Malmrose,
"Open
Source Business Model" is now available.
(11MB OpenOffice.org Impress presentation).
Dec. 16 - GoGrid slides available
Slides from last night's presentation on cloud computing and hosting, and
GoGrid's services, are now available
(PowerPoint). Meeting minutes
are also available.
Nov. 18 - Officers elected
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.
Nov. 17 - Planning for 10th anniversary
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!
Nov. 16 - LUGOD officer elections begin tomorrow!
Send your nominations for officers to
typescript prior to
tomorrow's meeting.
Nov. 5 - Plone Group joins LUGOD Installfest on Saturday
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!)
Oct. 20 - "code_swarm" presentation slides and photos
Now available: presentation slides
(420KB PDF), photos and
minutes from last night's
LUGOD meeting.
Oct. 20 - Bylaws change regard elections
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.
Oct. 20 - code_swarm talk tonight!
LUGOD meets tonight at 7pm
at the Davis Public Library
for a presentation on
code_swarm.
(Officer nomations also begin!)
Sep. 25 - Installfest this Saturday
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.
Sep. 22 - Photos from Software Freedom Day 2008
Check out a few photos from LUGOD's table
at Farmer's Market for Software Freedom Day.
Sep. 19 - See you at Farmers Market!
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!
Sep. 18 - Flyer for Sept. Installfest
A flyer is now available for Sept. 27th's
Installfest Workshop. Please print and post!
Sep. 15 - libcrtxy slides online
Slides from tonight's talk on libcrtxy are
now online. Enjoy!
Aug. 30 - September Installfest scheduled
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!
Aug. 19 - Siafoo slides and photos online
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!
Aug. 5 - Flyers for upcoming meetings
Flyers are available for our next four general meetings:
August: Siafoo,
September: libcrtxy,
October: code_swarm and
November: ZaReason.
July 23 - Linux on Laptops
Photos of the Linux on Laptops Roundtable,
plus meeting minutes, are now
available. Enjoy!
July 23 - Registering for Software Freedom Day
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!)
July 22 - LinuxWorld Expo, Picn*x and Software Freedom Day
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!
July 18 - Installfest tomorrow; Laptop roundtable Monday
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.
June 20 - code_swarm talk in October
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.
June 18 - Photos, minutes and handout from Monday's OpenSSL meeting
You can now read over the meeting
minutes, view the photos, and
read the handout sheet from this
past Monday's talk on OpenSSL.
June 17 - LUGODers of the Quarter
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.
June 7 - Calendar updated
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!
May 20 - OpenStreetMap meeting minutes, photos and slides
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!
May 10 - LUGOD is at Whole Earth Festival!
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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!
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.
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