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.
Permalink
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'.)
Permalink
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.
Permalink
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'.)
Permalink
WEF application submitted!
Posted 2007-04-01 11:30:00
Nick Schmalenberger has offered to organize LUGOD's
booth at WEF this year, has submitted our
exhibitor application, and has offered use of his truck to help move
supplies to and from campus for this event. More volunteers are needed,
so please let us know if you can help by
posting a note to 'vox-outreach'.
Permalink
GTC and WEF updates
Posted 2007-03-26 01:35:00
Along with the Government Technology Conference, LUGOD is also hoping to
attend the Whole Earth Festival at UC Davis in May. To that end, some
new information has been posted to our
WEF project page (as well as to the
GTC project page).
A volunteer is needed immediately to coordinate our presence at WEF,
as the deadline to apply
as an educational exhibitor is April 1st!
Permalink
LUGOD at GTC: Plans underway
Posted 2007-03-26 00:05:00
Siva Prasad, Govind Tatachari and Subramaniyam Pooni have offered to help
organize a LUGOD presence at this year's
Government
Technology Conference in Sacramento in May. If you'd like to help
organize or volunteer for the event, post a note to our
'vox-outreach' mailing list.
Permalink
March Installfest scheduled
Posted 2007-03-11 12:00:00
This month's free Linux 'Installfest' workshop will
take place at UC Davis on Saturday, March 31st.
Sign up if you'd like to attend, or
contact if@lugod.org if you'd like
to help volunteer.
Permalink
Ingres at LUGOD, at UC Davis
Posted 2007-03-08 13:10:00
Thanks to Laine Walker-Avina, LUGOD will be able to meet at
Kemper Hall at UC Davis for our
March 19th meeting, which features
Ingres Corp.
Permalink
Local and Bay Area events this week
Posted 2007-03-03 07:00:00
In the Davis area, LUGOD has a social gathering
on Monday and SacLUG will have a
talk on various virtual machines on Thursday. In Mountain View,
EFF will talk about "DRM as a threat
to Free Software" at SVLUG on
Wednesday, and the fourth FLOSS
Usability Sprint will take place at Google from Friday through Sunday.
Permalink
Installfest canceled
Posted 2007-02-15 11:30:00
This Sunday's Installfest was canceled, since only one
person RSVPed so far. A small one-on-one will probably take place at
Muir Commons, per this thread on 'vox-if'.
Permalink
Numerous Job Postings
Posted 2007-02-09 13:25:00
Eight new jobs have been posted to the Jobs page,
and a few others were posted to our job mailing list,
vox-jobs. Most are in the Bay Area.
If you have a job you'd like posted, contact
the webmaster.
Permalink
Upcoming February Events
Posted 2007-02-07 11:00:00
Later this month, LUGOD will be holding anoter free, day-long
Linux Installfest workshop at UC Davis
(on Sunday, February 18th). The follow day, Seth Duffey from
the City of Davis will return to LUGOD, this time to talk
about Creating Accessible Websites —
6:30pm on Monday the 19th, at the
Davis Public Library.
Permalink
Installfest Volunteers Needed!
Posted 2007-01-19 12:20:00
Our first Installfest workshop of the year is
tomorrow, and we have over a half-dozen people signed up for the morning
slots. Please help out if you can! Contact
if@lugod.org to let the coordinators know
you can make it, or if you have questions. Thanks!
Permalink
Meeting venue needed for March presentation
Posted 2007-01-16 23:30:00
Ingres Corporation will be joining us at our
March 19th meeting, and
we're unable to meet at our typical venue, the Davis Public Library.
If you can help find an alternative location for this event, please
contact us.
Permalink
Flyers for 8th birthday meeting and January Installfest
Posted 2007-01-09 01:15:00
Printable flyers for this month's
LUGOD events: 8th birthday meeting and
Installfest workshop, are now available. Please
consider printing and posting them!
Permalink
8th Anniversary Meeting
Posted 2007-01-09 01:10:00
Brian Lavender, founder of the Sacramento Linux Users Group, will be
discussing IMAP (the Internet Message Access Protocol) and system mirroring
using rsync at our next meeting: Monday, January 15th.
This meeting also marks LUGOD's 8th birthday, and we hope to celebrate
with free snacks and cake!
Permalink
Continued call for speakers
Posted 2007-01-03 12:15:00
LUGOD is still looking for speakers for our
2007 meetings.
If you're interested in speaking at LUGOD,
please contact our public relations
officer, Bill Kendrick. (Check our
meeting subject wishlist for
topic ideas.)
Permalink
Mailing list cleanups
Posted 2006-12-30 20:05:00
Rod Roark, who maintains LUGOD's web- and mail-server, noted that numerous
email addresses that are subscribed to our mailing
lists were bouncing, so those addresses have been removed. If yours
was among them, and you think it was a mistake, contact the
webmaster.
Permalink
Meeting changed to social meeting
Posted 2006-12-18 18:30:00
Tonight's meeting will be a social meeting, to be held at Crepeville,
330 Third Street in Davis. It will begin approximately 6:30 PM.
See you there!
Permalink
Officer nominations
Posted 2006-12-16 12:00:00
Officer nominations close at this Monday's meeting.
If you'd like to elect yourself, or someone else, for a LUGOD
officer position, please contact
typescript.
Permalink
Congratulations to the Kendrick Family
Posted 2006-12-13 00:00:00
LUGOD's co-founder and super-volunteer Bill Kendrick has just welcomed a new baby into the family. Congratulations from all your friends at LUGOD and best wishes!
Permalink
Social gathering tonight
Posted 2006-12-05 00:00:00
LUGOD members will meet at Crepeville
for a social gathering tonight at 6:30pm.
Permalink
Call for speakers
Posted 2006-11-26 00:50:00
LUGOD is looking for speakers for our
2007 meetings.
If you're interested in speaking at LUGOD,
please contact our public relations
officer, Bill Kendrick. (Check our
meeting subject wishlist for
topic ideas.)
Permalink
IPv6 slides available
Posted 2006-11-24 11:50:00
Slides from this week's talk on 'IPv6 under Linux' are
now available (PDF). Enjoy!
Permalink
December Installfest
Posted 2006-11-22 14:00:00
We're planning to hold an Installfest workshop on
Saturday, December 2nd. 10am to 6pm at UC Davis. Be sure to
register if you'd like to attend! Volunteers
are always welcome, too.
Permalink
Officer nominations extended
Posted 2006-11-21 12:35:00
At last night's meeting, nominations for LUGOD officers was extended through
to the next general meeting (December
18th). If you'd like to nominate yourself or another for our
officer positions, send a message to
typescript@lugod.org.
Permalink
IPv6 talk tonight
Posted 2006-11-20 00:20:00
"IPv6 in Linux" will be presented at tonight's
meeting. Note the special location: SoliSys
on Second street, east of downtown. Also, officer nominations end, and
elections begin!
Permalink
Officer nominations open tonight
Posted 2006-11-07 17:10:00
As per our bylaws, nominations for
elected officers begin at tonight's
meeting. Send your nominations to the
secretary. (You may nominate
yourself.) Nominations close at our next
meeting, when elections begin. Elections end before the
December 5th meeting.
Permalink
Social gathering moved to Crepeville
Posted 2006-11-06 11:20:00
Tomorrow's social gathering has been moved to
Crepeville (3rd and C streets in
downtown Davis).
Permalink
Latest jobs on our front page
Posted 2006-11-03 11:25:00
The most recent additions to our Linux jobs page are
now visible on the front page of LUGOD.org. Enjoy!
Permalink
LUGOD article in Linux User and Developer Magazine
Posted 2006-11-01 09:40:00
This month (issue 66), the UK Linux magazine
Linux User and Developer
includes an article about the Linux Users' Group of Davis!
You can purchase a copy for download
from HME Publishing, or check a local bookstore or magazine stand to see if they
carry it yet.
Permalink
Installfest report
Posted 2006-10-23 19:15:00
Volunteer Alex Mandel was kind enough to
report on this weekend's Installfest. Thanks to IF coordinators
Chris McKenzie and Seth Nagao, and all the volunteers who helped
make this a successful event!
Permalink
Reminder: Installfest this Saturday
Posted 2006-10-18 17:55:00
Don't forget to RSVP for this
Saturday's free Installfest workshop!
Permalink
Postfix slides available
Posted 2006-10-17 16:35:00
Slides from Monday's talk on Postfix are
now online (221KB PDF). Enjoy!
Permalink
Postfix talk on Monday
Posted 2006-10-16 00:00:00
Rod Roark of Sunset Systems, who donates web space, email and mailing lists to
LUGOD, will be presenting a talk on Postfix, an
Open Source mail transfer agent for Linux, at today's LUGOD meeting,
at the Davis Public Library.
Permalink
Free Linux Installfest: October 21st
Posted 2006-10-13 13:50:00
Welcome, UC Davis
students! Join us for an installfest!
Free! RSVP today!
Permalink
October Installfest Flyer
Posted 2006-10-08 12:55:00
A flyer for this month's
Installfest is now available, in both
PDF
and PNG
formats.
Permalink
Intro to Linux class in the works
Posted 2006-10-05 17:20:00
Would you like to help put together an
introductory Linux class for the public?
Post a note to our 'vox-outreach'
mailing list!
Permalink
Social gathering tonight; Installfest on the 21st
Posted 2006-10-03 16:55:00
LUGOD meets tonight at the Delta of Venus cafe for a
social gathering. Also, sign up now for our free
Installfest workshop later this month.
Or, if you'd like to help volunteer at that event, contact
the IF coordinators or post a message
to our 'vox-if' mailing list.
Permalink
LUGOD meets tonight: "Bento Solutions"
Posted 2006-09-18 10:20:00
John Miche of Bento Solutions
will be speaking at tonight's LUGOD meeting --
6:30pm at the Davis Public Library.
Permalink
Photos from Software Freedom Day
Posted 2006-09-17 11:30:00
Photos of our Software Freedom Day Linux demo booth at this weekend's
Farmer's Market are are now online. Enjoy!
Permalink
Linux demo at Farmer's Market tomorrow!
Posted 2006-09-15 14:20:00
LUGOD members Jimbo and Tim Riley
plan
to head to
Baker's Square
in Davis (near Central Park) for breakfast at 6:00am tomorrow, and then head
over to the Farmer's Market
to set up LUGOD's booth for our demo for
Software Freedom Day.
(For more, see
this month's
archive of our 'vox-outreach'
mailing list.
Permalink
Add LUGOD meetings to Yahoo! Calendar
Posted 2006-09-13 15:00:00
You can now also add LUGOD meetings to your
Yahoo! Calendar!
Permalink
Events calendar available in iCalendar format
Posted 2006-09-13 11:00:00
Mozilla, KOrganizer, Evolution, Outlook, and Apple iCal users can now
download (or subscribe to) our events calendar.
You can choose either all upcoming events, or only LUGOD events.
(We plan to also add links to single event iCalendar files elsewhere around
our site.) Enjoy!
Permalink
Help needed for Software Freedom Day demo
Posted 2006-09-05 14:30:00
Jimbo from LUGOD is
looking for
help getting his PC set up as a demonstration system for LUGOD's
hands-on Linux demo (on
Software Freedom Day,
Saturday, September 16th). We'll also need volunteers to help set
up, staff, and break down our booth at the Davis Farmer's Market.
Let him know if you can give him a hand!
Permalink
LUGOD social gathering tonight
Posted 2006-09-05 14:25:00
LUGOD members meet at the Delta of Venus
cafe in downtown Davis for a social gathering. (This event coincides
with tonight's
Davis Hacking
Society meeting, also at Delta.)
Permalink
Flyer for Software Freedom Day
Posted 2006-08-31 12:15:00
We've created a flyer advertising LUGOD's
hands-on Linux demo in September
(for Software Freedom Day).
Please print and distribute, thanks!
Permalink
Linux enthusiasts want to 'Meetup'
Posted 2006-08-31 00:50:00
Meetup.com shows that
nearly 40 people
near Davis are looking to meet up. (Apparently, they didn't find
LUGOD, SacLUG or
RoseLUG yet!) Meetup is looking
for someone to start a group (but unfortunately they charge for the
privelege.) Holding Linux Meetups that coincide with LUGOD's
monthly social gatherings might be a good idea.
Permalink
Add LUGOD meetings to Google Calendar
Posted 2006-08-30 19:50:00
You can now add LUGOD meetings to your
Google Calendar!
(We hope to soon add other kinds of events, as well as provide events in
iCal format.)
Permalink
Older news...
|
|
![[XML]](xml.gif){kind=small}
