Virginia Tech Linux & UNIX Users’ Group

Welcome back to the Fall ‘07 semester!

For those who did not know, the VTLUUG experienced a reorganization at the end of last semester. A club charter was drafted and ratified, and elections were held as per the new charter. It is located under the Files section of the website so you can peruse it at your leisure. The new officers are on the contact page (check the tabs above). Any questions, comments, complaints or suggestions should be directed towards the appropriate officer, or the generic vtluug@vtluug.org address.

But enough of that.. on to the events we have planned for this semester.

Install Fest: The semesterly InstallFest has been set for September 16th, from 12 PM till 6 PM, in Squires Room 345. Of course walk-ins are welcomed (and encouraged). For more information head over to the Get Involved thread.
Crash Course The Crash Courses for the semester have been set for September 24th and September 25th, from 7:30 PM till 9 PM each night in Colonial Hall in Squires. The Crash Courses will be in the form of presentations we invite our guests to follow with their own computers. Those of you who know Colonial Hall know that we’ll have plenty of room, so come on out and try something new, or just brush up on your skills.

Bi-weekly Meetings: So, this year instead of having haphazardly scheduled BOFs the LUUG will meet every other week, alternating between Monday and Tuesday) at 7:30 pm in Squires. These meetings will be more open than the presentation style lectures we have traditionally held. In the week(s) before the meeting a thread will be started in the forum where members can toss about topics for discussion. By the weekend an agenda will be posted on the website so everyone knows what to expect when they come to a meeting. Posts will be made, and emails sent out over the listserv as these events creep closer.

To keep up to date on all of the LUUG’s events feel free to subscribe to the calendar and/or join the listserv. If you have any specific problems, issues, or want to share something jump on the forum and make a post.

Hey all -

I hope everyone is doing okay after last week's tragic events.

We have decided to move ahead with our final BoF of the semester, which
will occur this Thursday, April 26th, from 8:00 to 10:00 PM in Squires
Room 145.

Ashton, a music major here at Tech, will be presenting on the topic of
audio work and Linux.

If you have any questions, please head over to the forums and we will
field them!

Hey all!

This Wednesday, April 11th, from 8:30 to 10:30 PM in Squires Room 234, there will be a presentation on using Linux with amateur radio. It should be a great presentation.

See you there!

Hey all!

This Thursday, from 8 PM to 10PM in Squires Room 145 we will be hosting another casual, round-table BoF on the topics listed.  If you have something you want to contribute or another topic you think would be fun to cover, come on out and bring your laptop!  There will be a projector and screen so you can show off your know-how.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Hey all!

This Wednesday, between 8:30 and 10:30, there will be a BoF on ‘Hacks & Tricks’ in Room 234 of Squires.

The gathering will be hosted by Casey Link, although it will be less of a presentation and more of a round-table discussion of people talking about and showing off cool tricks and hacks they have put together. If you have something you would like to contribute, come by and share! This is a very informal meeting, and will likely be low-key as it immediately follows the break. The list of topics that will be covered by Casey are:

* Bootsplash
* Easy Automated backups: both to other drives and remote machines
* Some nifty (usually) default terminal utilities:
wget, screen, kill, killall, grep, slocate, apropos, cal, du, df
(the list could go on and on)
* Vim shortcuts
* Emacs — don’t shoot me!
* SSH tunnels and X11 forwarding
* checkinstall
* the wonders of ImageMagick
* and more!