Virginia Tech Linux & UNIX Users’ Group

We’ve set a time and place for this semester’s InstallFest.

Where: Squires, Brush Mountain Room B (Third floor)
When: Sunday, October 19th – 12:00-5:00 PM

There will be O’reilly Book raffles (titles to be announced soon), and free Distro giveaways.

So, maybe you’re wondering just what an InstallFest is and why you should come?

The InstallFest is an event where VTLUUG officers and other volunteers will be on hand to assist in the installation of a variety of Linux and UNIX distributions. Whether you’re a beginner in the Linux world, or someone who writes more on the Linux Kernel Mailing List than you do in classes, it’s a great chance to get to know some of the other people around campus who are into Linux. If there are any questions, please feel free to post up in the forums.

We hope to see you all there!

Hey all -

Today is Software Freedom Day! It is a day designed to celebrate
Free/Open Source Software. We are joining in the national celebration
with a Virginia Tech-specific celebration, sponsored by Sun.

There will be four speakers, each talking about open source software
projects here on campus and in the local Blacksburg area.

The celebration will present a forum for open source software and will
be held in Torg 3100 at 5pm. We invite everyone in the Virginia Tech
community to come out and enjoy free pizza and drinks, hear about open
source software, and enter to win some free prizes.

Date: September 20th, 2008
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Torgersen 3100

The schedule will be something like:
-John Edstrom - Sun presentation
-Jonathan Turner - Minnow programming language
-Pizza break/software distribution
-Dr. Godmar Back - LibX
-Mike Taczak (and/or Naren) - Funambol
-Raffle give-away

Ten O’Reilly books will be given away - 2 of each of the following titles:
sed & awk. 2ED
Learning the vi and ViM Editor
Linux in a Nutshell, 5ED
Managing Projects with GNU Make
Mastering Regular Expressions

There will also be software give-aways from Sun and Canonical (the
sponsor company of Ubuntu).

This event is being organized by the Association for Computing
Machinery, Association for Women in Computing, Virginia Tech
Linux/Unix User’s Group, and Free Culture. To learn more about
Software Freedom Day, check out http://softwarefreedomday.org/.