Purdue Linux Users Group

Office Hours, Callout and More Updates! Oh my!

Hey! We now officially have office hours! You can see them to the right, there. Also, our callout is coming up! It’s gonna be the 8th of September from 7-8 in Lawson 1106. You should come check it out. We’ll have free pizza! And who doesn’t like free pizza, right?

Also, I’ve made a couple more updates to the website. Most notably, I added a mobile version of our website, which you can get to by scanning the 2D barcode to the right with your Android phone, or by going to purduelug.org. Awesome stuff, no? I’ve also added a google sitemap and some google analytics. If they’re really interesting I’ll keep you up to date. If not, I won’t. That simple.

I’ll do my best to keep this updated throughout the year, but hopefully our President and Treasurer will do some posting as well! Have a good semester, and come check us out!

Website updated

Hey guys! I’m your new Vice President! Apparently this job includes website development. If you can’t tell, I’ve made a few major changes to the website, the most noticable is probably the theme. I’ve also upgraded wordpress to the latest version, activated akismet (spam filter), and added a few plugins and widgets and whatnot. I plan to keep this site a little bit more up-to-date then it has been in the past…and we’re going to start that by having our weekly meeting minutes posted. That’ll happen as soon as I get the weekly minutes. And decide how to upload them. If you don’t like this new theme, or have anything you want to modify with the site, comment here or shoot me an email, or come by my office hour.

Office Hours Permanently Moved

I hope you guys all had a fun spring break and are enjoying being back at Purdue. Starting this week, I’m moving my office hours from 6-7pm to 4:20-5:20pm. This ends up working better with my schedule and I think it’ll work better for you guys as well so you don’t have to come back to campus late in the evening. You can come in whenever during office hours to chat, get help with linux or free software, or check out one of our many cool books. Hope to see you guys there.

Office Hours: Thursdays 4:20-5:20pm LWSN B128

Fall 2009 Callout

Now that school has started once again, PLUG is gearing up for an active semester filled with exciting activities.  If you’d like to be involved in planning out this semester, I will be holding an office hour in the PLUG office (LWSN B128) on Thursdays from 6-7pm. I hope that the office hour can eventually evolve into a regular meeting time if possible.

Our callout will be on Thurs, Sept. 10 at 7pm in BRNG 1230. Free pizza and drinks!

Callout Followup

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

Tags: Events, Information

Spring Planning Meeting

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

PAL Information

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