Welcome TechFest attendees! Here's more info on Linux!

Next meeting 7pm Thur., Mar. 18, 2010 in W.S.U., Student Union, E163A (Discovery A)

InstallFest+ 10am-4pm Sat., Mar. 20, 2010 in S.C.C., Bldg. 5, Rooms 5121 & 5134

DLUG Events

Beginning Thursday, May 21, 2009, all events listed on this page are held in Russ Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, unless stated otherwise. Our usual meeting time is 7 - 9 p.m. the third Thursday each month. All meetings are free and open to the public unless stated otherwise. Please check for the exact location each month. See maps and cue sheets for directions to Wright State. Be aware that parking is limited and parking regulations are enforced. There is free parking in Visitor Lot #2 near the Student Union. Carpool with a buddy if possible. Usually several of us adjourn to a local eatery to continue our discussions even more informally. The meeting room is subject to to change each school term, and the eatery is selected at each meeting.

Coming Events

• March 18, 2010 meeting Student Union E163A (Discovery A), W.S.U.
• March 20, 2010 InstallFest+ Sinclair Community College
• April 15, 2010 meeting W.S.U. (room TBA)

Past Events

• February 18, 2010 meeting Student Union E156A (Endeavour A), W.S.U.
• January 21, 2010 meeting Student Union E163B (Discovery B), W.S.U.
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Coming Events

March 2010

March 18 2010 meeting at Student Union E163A (Discovery A), W.S.U.

This should be an interesting evening! Matt Arnett will show us how to use Compiz to wow your friends and family and also make your system more productive and fun to use. Compiz has 8 categories with over 75 highly configurable plug-ins. It's a tinkerer's dream. Find out how to use them to pimp your OS.

See a demo of setting up a Wii Remote to remotely control your Linux desktop (and not just for flipping through PowerPoint slides either)! With Compiz and a Wiimote, you can grab your screen with your hand (Wiimote) and spin it around like a Rubik's cube. You can also control the Wiimote from you desktop. Hmmm...sounds like the basics of a Wii gaming API are there for Linux, just waiting to be used.

Matt is a Software Engineer from Cintas Corporation. He has over 15 years of experience in designing and developing client/server web enabled software. He has been using Ubuntu Linux for the last 3 years and Red Hat Linux for the last 6 years.

If you have any suggestions for topics, please send them to the Linux-SIG-Planning team.

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March 2010

March 20 2010 InstallFest+ at Sinclair Community College

Our next InstallFest+ (formerly known as Installfest) will be held at Sinclair Community College, 444 West Third Street, Dayton, from 10 am–4 pm Saturday, March 20^th, 2010 in Building 5, Rooms 5121 & 5134. If you plan to attend, please pre-register here so we can be better prepared to help.

Why Installfest+ instead of Installfest? Since Linux has become much easier to install over the past few years, we've decided to shift the emphasis away from just installing Linux. Sure, we'll help you do that if that's what you want. But most people can get it installed OK on their own these days, but sometimes find that they need help doing certain things (printing, scanning, connecting with other networked computers at home, playing music, etc., etc.) once it's installed. So we'll try to offer help in those areas. If you have a problem you want help with, bring your machine in and we'll help as best we can. Please let us know in advance what problems you need help with so we can attempt to be better prepared. There is no admission charge for this event, although parking in the above ground garage is $2.

If you have unusual hardware (very new or very old PC, or system with something other than an Intel Pentium, Core 2, or AMD Athlon CPU such as Alpha, PowerPC (e.g. older Mac), Sparc, new Inel-based Mac, etc. or need specific help, please let us know in advance so we can try to be prepared to help you. Contact info is here. We will also have help available for anyone wanting to setup MythTV. KnoppMyth or LinHES are probably the easiest way to do it, but there are several other ways.

We will have copies of some of the more popular current distros such as Debian 5.0, Fedora 12, Ubuntu 9.10 & / or 10.04 beta, and others available. If you want a particular distro, please let us know at least a few days in advance.

Here are driving directions for getting there from any direction. Once you're there, you may park on 4th St., or in the triangular parking lot B, located between West Fourth and West Fifth Streets under the walkway. From there, walk across 4th Street to the ground floor entrance of building 4. This is the entrance located between building 3 and 4 under the walkway. Or park in garage A between West Fifth and Mead Streets and take the elevated walkway on the third floor to building 4, then down the elevator to the 2nd floor. There is also an underground garage C with elevators, but I don't think any of the elevators go to building 4. There will probably be a small parking fee for the Sinclair parking lot or garage. Street parking is free on Saturdays. Please be aware that the parking in Lot C (under Buildings 11 & 12) costs $10!

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Past Events

February 2010

February 18 2010 meeting at Student Union E156A (Endeavour A), W.S.U.

No topic was scheduled for this month.

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January 2010

January 21 2010 meeting at Student Union E163B (Discovery B), W.S.U.

This month, Bryan Harris did an introductory presentation on Sandisk U3 "thumb drives" and discussed configuring them as a bootable Linux system. See an overview here. This may be the start of a three or more parts series.

GT had an update on our next Install / Config Fest, scheduled for 10am - 4pm Saturday, March 20, 2010 at Sinclair Community College. He is seeking volunteers to help with:

• Publicity
• Create a registration form
• Burn distros to distribute
• Bring machines to demo
• Do presentations
• Brainstorm

Is there any interest in starting a Droid SIG? At least three of our members now have cell phones based on the Android OS.

If you have any suggestions for topics, please send them to the Linux-SIG-Planning team.

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December 2009

December 17 2009 meeting at RC144, W.S.U.

This month, Jordan McCollum did a presentation on setting up and using VirtualBox.

There was yet more discussion of scheduling an Install / Config Fest, but no date or location has been set. Why does this seem to be harder to do than nailing Jello to a tree?

Is there any interest in starting a Droid SIG? At least three of our members now have cell phones based on the Android OS.

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