Virginia Tech Linux & UNIX Users’ Group

We now have room and equipment reservations for the VPN Workshop and Installfest!

The details are as follows:

VPN Workshop:
Saturday, the 22nd of April
2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Squires, Room 145

Installfest / Techfest:
Sunday, the 23rd of April
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Squires, Room 145

The room should be perfect for us… it is a series of 3-person tables - so it will be excellent for setting up laptops and demo stations.

Discussions about the Installfest can be found here and discussions about the VPN workshop can be found here.

We have decided to hold the install fest on Sunday, April 23rd starting at 2:00 PM. For the latest news about the event check out the forums. Also remember, this is when we had planned to have the “Linux Fair” to have many distributions on display.

As some of you might know, the College of Engineering here at Tech has recently changed their computer requirement for incoming freshmen to a Tablet PC from the previous requirement of a PC laptop. Of course, it is often thought that an organization such as ours would have a negative bias towards such a decision, as it limits the ability for incoming students (and potential members) to use Linux on the laptop that they will be using everyday. This does not even take into account the dissatisfaction many have with having to pay more for a tablet, while getting less at the same time. With all this in mind, I am asking that all members take the following survey at their earliest convenience, if it is possible. VTLUUG is collaborating in this survey with VTMUG (Virginia Tech Macintosh User’s Group), if for no other reason than to publish what actual student’s thoughts are to those responsible for the requirement, so incoming freshmen would not have to deal with the headache that tablets might be. I thank you, in advance.

Link to Survey

-Sean

We’ve decided to have an install fest to try to gain awareness and to hopefully bring new members to the club. Currently we have not been able to decide on a date or location but if you have an opinion let it be heard in the forums. We’re going to need some help from current members to get this thing off the ground. First of all, we need publicity, so please tell your friends, have your professors promote it, make up fliers, do whatever needs to be done. Be sure to mention the free food and Linux CD’s available. We also have some O’Reilly books that we’ll be raffling off to the people that show up. Next we need people to be able to help out that day with the installs. We’re planning to install FC 5 and Ubuntu 5.10 but you can always bring your own favorite distro. Also if anyone is interested we can hold some BoF sessions during the event, just reply with a topic and if possible a leader / presenter. The planning for this event is all taking place in our VTLUUG forums under the “Get Involved” heading, so if you don’t already have an account you can make one here: REGISTER

~Dan