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DLUG Events
Beginning Thursday, June 19, 2008, all events listed on this page are held in Russ Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, unless stated otherwise. Our usual meeting time is 7 - 9 p.m. the third Thursday each month. All meetings are free and open to the public unless stated otherwise. Please check for the exact location each month. See maps and cue sheets for directions to Wright State. Be aware that parking is limited and parking regulations are enforced - bring cash for parking ($1 per hour). Carpool with a buddy if possible. Usually several of us adjourn to a local eatery to continue our discussions even more informally. The meeting room is subject to to change each school term, and the eatery is selected at each meeting. Coming Events July 2008 meeting Rm. 145, Russ Engineering, W.S.U. August 2008 meeting Rm. 145, Russ Engineering, W.S.U. Past Events June 2008 meeting Rm. 145, Russ Engineering, W.S.U. May 2008 meeting New Horizons^® Computer Learning Centers April 2008 meeting New Horizons March 2008 meeting W.S.U. Student Union 157 February 2008 meeting January 2008 meeting December 2007 meeting November 2007 meeting October 2007 meeting InstallFest+ Ohio LinuxFest 2007 Columbus Convention Ctr. September 2007 meeting August 2007 meeting July 2007 meeting June 2007 meeting May 2007 meeting April 2007 meeting March 2007 meeting February 2007 meeting January 2007 meeting December 2006 meeting November 2006 meeting October 2006 meeting Ohio LinuxFest 2006 Linux Demo Fest September 2006 meeting August 2006 meeting July 2006 meeting June 2006 meeting June 3 2006 InstallFest+ May 2006 meeting April 2006 meeting March 2006 meeting February 2006 meeting January 2006 meeting 2005 events 2004 events 2003 events 2002 events 2001 & 2000 events
Coming Events
July 2008 July 2008 meeting in W.S.U. RC145 As best I know, Elliott will continue leading the panel discussion of "How to Introduce and Encourage Linux Use to Resistant Organizations" this month and Michael Gilbert will continue his monthly "in-security" series. I haven't heard of any other topics for this month so far. If you have any suggestions for topics, please send them to the Linux-SIG-Planning team. Please bring printouts of your public key and government issued photo ID to participate in the key signing party. It's been far too long since we've had one. top last meeting next meeting August 2008 August 2008 meeting in W.S.U. RC145 If you have any suggestions for topics, please send them to the Linux-SIG-Planning team. top last meeting next meeting
Past Events
June 2008 June 2008 meeting in W.S.U. RC145 We returned to Wright State University for our June 19 meeting. This month was the start of a series of panel discussions headed up by Elliott Lake about "How to Introduce and Encourage Linux Use to Resistant Organizations". They discussed experiences they have encountered when trying to start implementation of Linux projects and suggest ways to improve them. Also, Michael Gilbert continued his monthly "in-security" series - security issues that have popped up within the past month. top last meeting next meeting May 2008 May 2008 meeting in New Horizons We met at New Horizons^® Computer Learning Centers, 1890 Commerce Center Blvd., Fairborn, OH for the Thursday May 15 meeting. This month Michael Gilbert demonstrated Eee PC and discussed installing a Debian based distro on one. He also discussed "in-security" - security issues that have popped up within the past month, and is looking forward to making it a monthly discussion. Also, Eric Baenen gave a quick overview of the Linux for South West Ohio Libraries project that was recently started. top last meeting next meeting April 2008 April 2008 meeting in New Horizons We met at New Horizons^® Computer Learning Centers, 1890 Commerce Center Blvd., Fairborn, OH for the Thursday April 17 meeting. New Horizons is near the large Kroger store on the north side of Dayton-Yellow Springs Rd. This month we didn't have a topic, so we had an extended Q&A session. If you have any suggestions for topics, please send them to the Linux-SIG-Planning team. top last meeting next meeting March 2008 March 2008 meeting in 157 Student Union, W.S.U. We met in Student Union, room 157, Wright State University for the Thursday March 20 meeting. This month, we had a demo by Eric Baenen of cloning and restoring systems with Clonezilla Live. Also, Jason Cook talked about Wikia and some of the things he is doing there. We had some Fedora 8 x86 Live CDs to give out at tonight's meeting, as well as a Fedora T-Shirt. top last meeting next meeting February 2008 February 2008 meeting in 016 Rike Hall, W.S.U. We met in Rike Hall, room 016, Wright State University for the Thursday February 21 meeting, which was very nice. The desks are wired with power and ethernet, but without a Wright State account, you can't get online. This month Don Corbet discussed and demonstrated installing "Out-of-the-box XEN" para- and full virtulization and the difference under different CPU's running SLES-10 or Fedora. We gave out some Fedora 8 x86 Live CDs at tonight's meeting, courtesy of Red Hat Fedora. The new Milano's at the corner of North Fairfield and Kemp - a little over a mile south of TGI Friday's - has been suggested for the after-the-meeting meeting. They have free Wi-Fi. Please bring printouts of your public key and government issued photo ID to participate in the key signing party. It's been far too long since we've had one. top last meeting next meeting January 2008 January 2008 meeting in W.S.U. Student Union 156C We met in Student Union 156C at 7 pm Thursday January 17. This month we had a presentation by Michael Gilbert that he called "Running a secure system by knowing your vulnerabilities", which included discussion of WebKit and KDE4. We expected to also have a fair amount of discussion of Eric Baenen's proposal to "do more to help more people convert from proprietary software to Open Source Software and Linux.", but I didn't hear any. But since I wasn't feeling too good that night, I may have missed it. Please bring printouts of your public key and government issued photo ID to participate in the key signing party. It's been far too long since we've had one. top last meeting next meeting December 2007 December 2007 meeting in Russ Engineering, Rm. 146 We met in the RC146, at 7 pm Thursday December 20. This month we had two main topics. Elliott Lake discussed FreeNAS and Eric Baenen discussed VMware and other virtualization software. Some items mentioned include: building virtual machines, recommendations virtualization to support migration to Linux virtual machines for legacy OS's/apps server virtualization Xen vs Virtual Iron vs VMware vs VirtualBox vs Parallels VMware server vs VMware Player VMware vs Virtuozzo Eric's "practical virtualization" slides are available in swf, odp, and pdf file formats. Elliott's .ppt slides are here. top last meeting next meeting November 2007 November 2007 meeting in Russ Engineering, Rm. 146 We met in RC146, at 7 pm Thursday November 15. Our evening started with the usual Q & A session. Some of the topics discussed were: We used a Clearwire modem and account that was donated to DMA^® by member Jeremiah Ilges of The Ohio Technology Group in Springfield. Thank you Jeremiah and Ohio Technology group! The Ohio Technology Group is donating $50 to DMA for each new Clearwire account if you mention DMA when you buy the account through OTG. Someone asked for video player suggestions. Both VLC and MPlayer were recommended. There was a question about synching with a Palm OS PDA. J-Pilot was suggested, but some people said they had problems with it and it was noted that there hasn't been any development of it in over a year. See the Linux.com Synchronizing your Palm PDA with Linux article for other options. Someone asked how to partition a drive. Use GParted, which is used by most distros to partition a drive during installation. Check out the GParted-LiveCD. Someone asked how to change the run level of Ubuntu during bootup. Boot in single user mode. See Grub Boot into single user mode for details and Debian and Ubuntu Linux Run Levels for more info. GT & Paul V briefly talked about the newly formed Dynamic Languages SIG. You may subscribe to the mailing list here. GT announced that the DMA Holiday Dinner is Wednesday, December 5. This month's main topic was microformats, excellenty presented by Catherine Devlin. She explained that microformats are small extensions to HTML that make it easier for machines to collect and aggregate data about events, etc. from web pages. Catherine showed event calendars from a few web sites, including our own, to show the wide diversity in how event data is displayed on web pages. By using the hCalendar microformat, it's relatively simple to keep the same appearance on a web page, yet allow aggregators to easily extract the event data in a consistent manor regardless of how it's displayed. There are also microformats for address info (hCard), licensing info, such as for photos, and other situations. Catherine also demonstrated the Operator add-on for the Firefox web browser. In closing, she suggested checking out a couple conferences. First is CodeMash in Sandusky January 9-11, 2008. She also recommended PyCon 2008 in Chicago March 14-16, 2008. After the meeting, several of us adjourned to the nearby TGI Friday's. top last meeting next meeting October 2007 October 2007 meeting in Student Union, E163B (Discovery B) We met in the Student Union, room E163B, at 7 pm Thursday October 18. There was no topic scheduled for this month's meeting, so we had an extended Q & A session. top last meeting next meeting October 2007 ConfigFest 2007 at Sinclair Community College Our latest ConfigFest (or InstallFest+) was held at Sinclair Community College from 10 am–4 pm Saturday, October 6^th, 2007 in room 4242 of building 4. Once again, Art Ross and Sinclair Community College were great hosts. Turnout was a bit lighter than at some of our previous fests, but we were busy most of the day. It would have been good to have had more of our more experienced members present to help. top last meeting next meeting September 2007 September 29, 2007 was the 5th annual Ohio LinuxFest and it just keeps getting better each year. This year they added an optional day of training on Friday, Sept. 28 for $300 and LPI testing on Sunday. See the full weekend schedule here. top last meeting next meeting September 2007 September 2007 meeting in Russ Engineering 145 We met in RC145 at 7 pm Thursday September 20. This month Barry Hassler gave an excellent demonstration of configuring Asterisk, a very versatile PBX system implemented in Open Source software. top last meeting next meeting August 2007 August 2007 meeting in Russ Engineering, 145 No topic for this month's meeting had been set before the meeting. After a brief Q & A session, Paul Visscher volunteered to give a brief version of a couple previous presentations he had done previously - OpenWrt and "How Email Really Works". Thanks, Paul! top last meeting next meeting July 2007 July 2007 meeting in Russ Engineering, 150 We'll meet in room 150 of Russ Engineering at 7 pm Thursday July 19. For this month's meeting, Mike Gilbert demonstrated how to submit bug reports. top last meeting next meeting June 2007 June 2007 meeting in Student Union, E163B We met in E163B (Discovery B) of the Student Union at 7 pm Thursday June 21. The regular DMA monthly meeting was rescheduled to the same night as this SIG this month to accomodate "Dave Whittle's Picks for the Digital Home" presentation, so GT did not attend the Linux SIG tonight. Dave Lundy was occupied elsewhere, so Grant Root took notes in his absence. Thanks, Grant! We discussed Ohio LinuxFest and collected the money Nancy needed for our non-profit sponsorship. We had a programmer there whose Linux experience was pretty limited, and in response to his questions we talked about recommended distributions, demonstrated package management in Kubuntu, and covered compilers, editors, ssh, version control, etc. Jason talked a bit about a newish project management suite called redMine (http://www.redmine.org) which is written in Ruby-on-Rails. We pulled up the web site and went through the demo. Paul Visscher demonstrated the use of swaks, which stands for "Swiss Army Knife SMTP". It's a commandline tool for testing mail servers. Paul Ahlquist talked about fanout and fanterm www.stearns.org/fanout, which allow you to run commands on multiple machines. Paul Visscher talked about a number of useful networking commands. Jason talked about the null utility, which is "a combination of /dev/null, tee, md5sum, with the addition of some other features". top last meeting next meeting May 2007 May 2007 meeting We met in E163B (Discovery B) of the Student Union at 7 pm Thursday May 17. For this month's meeting, Ken Phelps gave a presentation on the DNS: how it works, and some things you need to know about it. Also, Mike Gilbert was supposed to discuss how to submit bug reports but we ran out of time. Once again we didn't have a key signing party. It's been far too long since we've had one. top last meeting next meeting April 2007 April 2007 meeting This month Mike Gilbert discussed the "State of Gaming on Linux" and demonstrated a wide variety of games. Michael's presentation files are available in PDF and TEX format. In addition, Jason Cook briefly discussed LAN Parties. top last meeting next meeting March 2007 March 2007 meeting We've moved! This meeting was held in room E163B (Discovery B) of the Student Union at 7 pm Thursday March 15. For this month's meeting, Brian Engle gave a presentation on the OpenBSD project, describing how the system works, and some of the differences (philosophical and otherwise) between OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux. More details to follow... Yet again, we did not have a key signing party. It's been eons since we've had one. top last meeting next meeting February 2007 February 2007 meeting This meeting was held in room 145 of the Russ Engineering Center at 7 pm Thursday February 15. This month Paul Visscher and Paul Ahlquist teamed up to discuss SMTP, and why it's "worse than you can possibly imagine". See slides here. Also, Mike Gilbert talked a bit about "The Debian Distribution". His presentation PDF is here & source file is here. More details to follow in a few days. Once again, there was no key signing party. It's been several months since we've had one. top last meeting next meeting January 2007 January 2007 meeting This meeting was held in room 145 of the Russ Engineering Center at 7 pm Thursday January 18. The topic for this month's meeting was a presentation by Jason Cook about modifications to an Xbox game console to use it as a MythTV front-end. Details to follow. top last meeting next meeting

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