Officer election results
Posted 2007-12-17 21:10:00
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).
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Tux Paint "Magic" Plug-in API presentation
Posted 2007-12-17 21:00:00
Presentation slides and
example code from tonight's presentation on Tux Paint's "Magic" API
are now available.
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Adobe Flex and ActionScript example code posted
Posted 2007-12-04 22:00:00
Seth Duffey has given us a tar
ball (2.1MB) of the example code and data from his presentation at
LUGOD last month. Enjoy!
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Flyer for December Installfest
Posted 2007-11-16 13:25:00
Alex Mandel has created a
flyer (PDF, 1.7MB) for our upcoming Installfest. Please print and post!
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Installfest on December 1st
Posted 2007-11-14 15:20:00
Our next Linux Installfest Workshop will be on
Saturday, December 1st. Be sure to register,
if you plan to attend!
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Sysadmin, Ruby on Rails, Kernel engineer, UI architect and more...
Posted 2007-11-13 09:05:00
Ten new positions in the Sacramento and Bay Areas have just been posted
to our Jobs page.
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$200 Ubuntu Linux PC available at Wal-Mart
Posted 2007-11-07 12:30:00
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.)
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Adobe Flex and ActionScript for Linux this month
Posted 2007-11-07 12:15:00
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.
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Google, Penguin Computing and more are hiring
Posted 2007-10-26 00:00:00
Looking for work? Check out the new positions we just posted on our
Jobs page!
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Notes from "Google Summer of Code"
Posted 2007-10-18 16:00:00
Kevin Schultz of LUGOD posted some notes he took from this week's talk,
and they are now available
on our Presentations page.
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This weekend's Installfest confirmed
Posted 2007-10-18 15:10:00
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!
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Google meeting mentioned in California Aggie
Posted 2007-10-17 19:00:00
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!)
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Photos from "Google Summer of Code"
Posted 2007-10-15 23:35:00
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.
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Free Pizza at "Google Summer of Code" presentation
Posted 2007-10-07 02:35:00
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!
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Second October Installfest
Posted 2007-10-07 02:30:00
We've tentatively planned to hold a second
Installfest workshop this month, on
Saturday, October 20th at UC Davis.
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Installfest room change
Posted 2007-10-05 14:15:00
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.
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Installfest time change
Posted 2007-10-03 10:55:00
Our Installfest this Saturday, Oct. 6th, needs to be
over by 3pm. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Flyer for "Google Summer of Code" in October
Posted 2007-09-29 01:50:00
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.!
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Photos from July meeting and Software Freedom Day
Posted 2007-09-25 22:00:00
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.
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Working with Valley Oak Charter
Posted 2007-09-24 23:00:00
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.
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New jobs posted
Posted 2007-09-18 08:25:00
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.)
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October Installfest Scheduled
Posted 2007-09-17 13:20:00
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.
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KDRT at LUGOD tomorrow
Posted 2007-09-16 12:11:00
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.
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Software Freedom Day a success
Posted 2007-09-16 12:09:00
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.
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Flyer for September and October meetings
Posted 2007-09-13 15:30:00
A flyer is available for our
next two general meetings. Please print and post!
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LUGOD Celebrates Software Freedom Day at Farmer's Market
Posted 2007-09-10 17:30:00
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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Slides from "Improving Security through Virtualization" talk
Posted 2007-09-08 10:35:00
Presentation slides from Bill Broadley's presentation in August
are now online (809KB PDF).
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Photos from LUGS booth at LWCE
Posted 2007-08-14 11:30:00
One photo from the User Group booth at
LinuxWorld Expo is online. If you took photos of the booth that you'd
like to share, please send them to
webmaster@lugod.org.
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August Installfest Confirmed
Posted 2007-08-09 15:20:00
LUGOD will be holding a free Linux Installfest Workshop
at UC Davis on Saturday, August 18th. Please
sign-up if you'd like to get help running Linux
on your computer.
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LUGS booth at LinuxWorld
Posted 2007-08-07 11:20:00
If you're going to LinuxWorld
this week, check out the "LUGS" booth
(booth #644). If you can help volunteer, we still need help for
Thursday morning; contact pr@lugod.org.
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August and October meetings flyer available
Posted 2007-08-05 16:00:00
We've created a flyer for
August 20th's
"Improving Security through Virtualization" and
October 15th's
"Google Summer of Code" presentations. Jim Stockford from
SF-LUG has offered to print LUGOD
handouts for the multi-LUG booth
at this week's LinuxWorld
Conference & Expo in San Francisco.
You can get the flyer in PDF or ODT format from our
Flyers page, if you'd like to print
and post copies around the Sacramento area!
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Software Freedom Day
Posted 2007-07-31 17:15:00
LUGOD is signed up as a participating group in this year's
Software Freedom Day,
Sat., Sept. 15th. We'll be holding a
hands-on demo somewhere in Davis.
See our new SFD page for more.
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LUGOD at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo
Posted 2007-07-26 10:15:00
Members of LUGOD are being offered Exhibitor passes to
LinuxWorld in San Francisco
next month, to participate in a multi-LUG booth being organized by
Jim Stockford of SF-LUG.
Govind Tatachari has volunteered, leaving one more slot open for a
LUGOD member to get a free pass. Contact
Bill Kendrick if you'd like to help
at LWE this year!
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More Whole Earth Festival photos
Posted 2007-07-22 11:40:00
Bryan Richter sent in another batch of
photos of LUGOD's booth at this year's
Whole Earth Festival at UC Davis. Enjoy!
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HDR Panoroma slides available
Posted 2007-07-19 16:20:00
Slides and sample files and
meeting minutes from this Monday's
LUGOD meeting ("Post Processing HDR Panoramas using Open Source Tools")
are now online.
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Bill Kendrick elected as Vice President
Posted 2007-07-19 15:05:00
Running unopposed, and with no objections from the attending members,
Bill Kendrick was elected as 'sys' (vice president) of LUGOD at this
Monday's LUGOD meeting.
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Flyer for 'HDR Panoramas' talk
Posted 2007-07-03 12:25:00
A flyer is now available for July
16th's "Post Processing HDR Panoramas using Open Source Tools" presentation,
and can be downloaded from our flyers page.
Please considering printing some copies and posting them for us, to help
get the word out about this meeting.
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Slides from "Tux Paint, Again"
Posted 2007-06-19 15:30:00
Slides and source code examples from Bill Kendrick's
presentation on Tux Paint
are now available.
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Linux Installfest later this month
Posted 2007-06-13 16:10:00
LUGOD will be holding a free Linux Installfest workshop
on Saturday, June 30th. It will take place all day (10am to 6pm) at
Kemper Hall at UC Davis. Please register
if you'd like to attend!
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Oracle Linux Engineering Update slides and links
Posted 2007-05-25 11:40:00
Slide PDFs and links to some sites mentioned during dinner after the meeting
from Oracle's Linux Engineering
Update presentation are now online.
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Saturday Whole Earth Festival update
Posted 2007-05-12 11:50:00
LUGOD's booth at the Whole Earth Festival is open!
We are located on the MU Patio (north of the UCDavis Quad) by the electric cars.
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Whole Earth Festival update
Posted 2007-05-08 07:00:00
The planning page for LUGOD's table at
this weekend's Whole Earth Festival
at UC Davis has been updated. Volunteers are still sought!
If you can help staff our table and/or burn CDROMs for give-aways,
let us know!
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Oracle topic confirmed
Posted 2007-05-07 19:20:00
Sunil Mushran from the Oracle Corporation's
Linux Engineering Group
and Todd Trichler from the
Oracle Technology Network
will be giving us a 'Linux Engineering Update' at our
May 21st meeting. They'll also be providing
free pizza and give-aways!
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Sacramento Wiki created
Posted 2007-05-03 12:15:00
Modeled after the popular
Davis Wiki, a new
wiki has been created
for Sacramento: www.SacWiki.org.
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Confirmed May LUGOD events
Posted 2007-04-30 22:30:00
Happening in May: Tomorrow night (May 1st) LUGOD is holding a
Social Gathering at
Crepeville in downtown Davis.
On May 11th-13th, LUGOD attends the
Whole Earth Festival at UC Davis. The following weekend,
on Saturday, May 19th, we're holding an
Installfest workshop, and on Monday,
May 21st Oracle visits
LUGOD at the Davis Public Library.
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Installfest this Saturday
Posted 2007-04-26 13:50:00
LUGOD is holding a free Linux Installfest workshop this
Saturday, 10am to 6pm, at UC Davis.
Please register if you plan to bring a PC, or
contact the IF coordinators if you'd
like to help volunteer.
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Links to CDROMs for WEF and GTC
Posted 2007-04-23 18:25:00
The "call for CDROM burns" page has been updated with
links to useful software discs. If you can help burn CDs for us to give
away at WEF and GTC,
this is a good place to start.
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CDROM burns needed for WEF and GTC
Posted 2007-04-18 15:30:00
Canonical is about to release Ubuntu and Kubuntu 7.04, meaning waits for
Ship-It discs can be up to 10 weeks. So if you can help LUGOD by burning
copies of Linux distros, TheOpenCD, and other useful discs to give out at our
Whole Earth Festival and
Government Technology Conference booths,
please do so! (Discuss over on
'vox-outreach'.)
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WEF and GTC planning
Posted 2007-04-16 13:25:00
Tonight's LUGOD meeting will be a social gathering
at Crepeville to discuss plans for LUGOD's
attendance at Whole Earth Festival and
Government Technology Conference in May.
On Thursday, the groups comprising the "Professional Organizations of
Sacramento" booth at GTC will
meet in
Sacramento this Thursday.
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Thanks to Installfest Volunteers
Posted 2007-04-02 15:15:00
Installfest coordinator Chris McKenzie was "impressed and flattered by the help"
he received at this weekend's workshop. (For more, see his
post
to 'vox-if'.)
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