Purdue Linux Users Group

We will be holding elections for all officer positions next week.

Details:

• When: April 21st, 2009 at 7:00-8:00pm
• Where: Lawson B151

The following positions will be up for election:

• President
  • The president sets direction for the club and plans events.
  • The president also handles several administrative responsibilities of the club dealing with the Business Office for Student Organizations and the office of Student Activities and Organizations.
• Vice-President
  • The vice-president is responsible for tasks and duties delegated by the president.
• Treasurer
  • The treasurer handles record keeping of the clubs finances and submitting pertinent forms to the Business Office for Student Organizations.

This is a great opportunity to gain some leadership experience to put on your resume, so I encourage all members to attend and run for a position if you are at all interested.

PLUG is giving a presentation about Linux/open source software at Earhart this week.

When: Tuesday, February 10th @ 8:15pm
Where: Earhart Residence Hall, East Rec Lounge

This presentation is done per the request of one of the RAs at Earhart. This will be a good presentation for people new to Linux, as it will be a general overview of what Linux and open source software are. We will give a brief history and overview, some demonstrations and then open it up for questions.

Hope to see a lot of you there.

Thanks to everyone who came to the callout, it is great to see people interested in the club and actively participating.

Topics Discussed:

Earhart Linux/Open-Source Presentation

• Tuesday, February 10th at 8:15pm in the Earhart Residence Hall rec lounge.
• Presentation will be general information about open-source software

Regular Meeting Times

• Second and fourth Tuesdays of every month
• First event will be the Earhart presentation
• Time to be finalized, will either be 7 or 8pm

IRC Help Hours

• Every Wednesday 7-9pm
• General help or discussion time

Starting/Contributing to an Open-Source Project

• We are looking into this possibility currently
• Open to suggestions from members

PAL2.0

• We will update the PAL instructions page to fix formatting issues and to simplify the instructions
• Looking into building a script for streamlining the use of wpa_supplicant

Callout Presentation Slides

Our spring callout has finally been scheduled, here are the details:

What: PLUG Spring Callout
When: Tuesday, February 3rd @ 7pm
Where: LWSN B134

The callout will last an hour. We will have mailing list signups and we will also be collecting dues ($10). We will be discussing what PLUG is doing this semester as well as taking requests/ideas for events.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Download the flyer

We had a planning meeting tonight on our IRC channel. We planned out a few things for the semester including our upcoming callout.

Topics discussed:

Spring Callout: Planned for Tuesday February 3rd at 7PM, location to be announced.
Regular Meeting Schedule: We will hold regular meetings every two weeks.
Meeting Topics:

• Running Windows applications using Wine
• IPv6 in Linux
• Open-source replacements for Active Directory and Exchange
• Present your favorite open source project

Officer Elections: Tentatively planned for April, exact details to be determined at a later date.

Download the IRC Log

Just put the PAL 2.0 and 1.0 connection information up.  Look at the top navigation bar.

We will be having our first meeting this Wednesday, October 29th at 6pm in our office in LWSN B128.

A rough agenda:

• Meet PLUG officers and other members
• Discuss plans for this year and what you would like to see the group do
• Plan our next meeting

Welcome to the brand-spanking-new Purdue Linux Users Group website!  After many months of stagnation, the webmaster finally got tired of being lazy and got around to

1. Getting an account with CSociety for hosting our site,
2. Pointing our domain name at the new address, and
3. Getting Wordpress installed.

Now all that remains is to get MediaWiki installed and the old data pulled off our broken old malfunctioning servers.