Not sure we are the oldest, but we /might/ be the oldest still in
operation. Is GNHLUG still in operation? If so, they are probably
older. I was inspired to dig into my archives:
An early email from our founder, Andy Stewart:
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Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 22:22:18 -0400
From: Andy Stewart <astewart(a)world.std.com>
To: "Worcester Linux Users' Group" <wlug(a)mass-pc.wpi.edu>
Subject: [Fwd: Caldera Inc. IT Forum]
OK, gang, tell the man what you think!
Remember, he is the gentleman who graciously donated the tee shirts and
CDROM discs from Caldera...
Andy
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 12:30:22 -0600
From: Paul La Fluer <paull(a)caldera.com>
Organization: Caldera, Inc.
To: astewart(a)world.std.com
Subject: Caldera Inc. IT Forum
Hello Andy, I hope everything is going good. I am in the process of
organizing a conference while in New York. My goal is to rent out a
large ballroom in a hotel and have all the usergroups in the area come
and listen to Bryan Sparks our CEO and other talk about Linux and
OpenLinux. There will be presentations plus a Q&A session. I would like
to hear your feedback on the idea and if your group would attend. We
would be giving away door prizes like OpenLinux Base and Standard and
handing out t-shirts, papers and OpenLinux Lite and OpenDOS to all that
attend. Please give me some feedback on this idea. I need to know soon
to get things set up.
Thanks,
Paul La Fleur
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An email about our SECOND meeting (that refers to the first meeting):
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Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 21:29:13 -0400
From: Andy Stewart <astewart(a)world.std.com>
To: "Worcester Linux Users' Group" <wlug(a)mass-pc.wpi.edu>
Subject: Next WLUG meeting
The next scheduled meeting for the Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG)
is August 21, 1997, at 7 PM in the Gordon Library on the Worcester
Polytechnic Institute (WPI) campus in Worcester, MA.
We had a great turnout of about 20 people at our very first meeting last
month - I hope to see all of you come back, and I'd like to extend a
welcome to anybody who would like to attend.
I would suggest parking in the "lower library" parking lot and hiking up
the 102 stairs to the library (not to mention the 12 or so more stairs
in the library to get to the 2nd floor!).
For more information, feel free to send me E-mail at:
astewart(a)world.std.com
Look for the penguin signs! Hope to see you there!
Andy Stewart
WLUG
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I'd guess our first meeting was about July 23 or 24, 1997, or perhaps
the week before, July 16 or 17.
But maddog from GNHLUG forwarded this, which says "as always, the
meeting are free..." which implies that July 30th is NOT their first
meeting. If they had monthly meetings, that would place their first
meeting in June 1997 or before.
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 97 10:28:09 -0400
From: "Jon 'maddog' Hall, USG Senior Leader" <hall(a)zk3.dec.com>
To: gnhlug(a)zk3.dec.com
Subject: GNHLUG - Linux Cluster meeting July 30th at Martha's Exchange
Hi,
We now have a venue for the July 30th meeting of the GNHLUG, with Loki,
a cluster of 16 Pentium PRO 200s, running Linux as the topic of the talk.
We will be meeting on the *second* floor dining room of the Martha's Exchange
Building in beautiful downtown Nashua. I will be picking up the speaker in
Cambridge that day and transporting him to Martha's for dinner, arriving about
1730 hours. For those of you who wish to join us for dinner, please RSVP.
The meeting itself will start at 1900 hours, with the speaker probably getting
up steam about 1915 hours.
As always, the meetings are free and open to everyone, and as a FINAL
enticement I will be handling out *free* CD ROMS with the V1.2 Debian release
for Intel on it.
M. Patrick Goda, a principal of the Loki
( http://loki-www.lanl.gov/ )
project at the Theoretical Division of the Los Alamos National Labs, a Beowulf
( http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux-web/beowulf/beowulf.html )
style computer will be our speaker. I have convinced him to present a talk
on the Loki project, one of linking together 16 Intel Pentium Pro machines to
create a system that has:
o high reliability
o high throughput
and generally 16-node IBM SP2 performance (over 1.2 GigaFlops) at 1/20th the
cost (about $60K)!!
Pat is a friend of mine that I introduced to Red Hat Linux when he was a
graduate student at the University of Hawaii (long story).
Due to the fact that Patrick is a rare find, I will invite the Boston Linux
User's Group and the Worcester Linux User's group to join us that night, so I
have arranged for larger quarters.
Some additional Beowulf pages are from my own alma mater:
http://einstein.drexel.edu/beowulf/Beowulf_concept.html
including exerpts from the original Beowulf story:
http://einstein.drexel.edu/beowulf/original_beowulf.html
Warmest regards,
maddog
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Nevermind, GNHLUG is definitely older by several years according to their web page:
http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/PastEvents
1996
When Where What Who How Many
31 Jan 1996 UNH Durham Linux Linus Torvalds 200+
1994
When Where What Who How Many
19 Oct UNH (?) First meeting Members ???
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 04:13:25PM -0500, Richard Klein via WLUG wrote:
> What do we know about WLUG's history? If it really is one of the oldest
> LUGs, it might merit a Wikipedia article. It would be great if we could
> flesh that out, too.
>
> This article seems like it could use a list of LUGs:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_user_group
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 1:43 PM Dennis Payne via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org>
> wrote:
>
> > The NatickFOSS group uses gettogether.community instead of meetup.com. I
> > don't know that it has gotten us any visibility but the software is open
> > source. I've been tempted to join meetup to go to Boston Indie Game
> > Developer meetings but have so far held off.
> >
> > The NatickFOSS group also gets a booth at the Science on State Street
> > event at Framingham State. It is a free STEM activity fair for kids. My job
> > at the event is to generally occupy the time of the kids so the other
> > members talk to the parents. First year I had a playstation controller
> > hooked up to my laptop and held it out to any kid that walked by. Last year
> > I brought the arcade machine assembled by my son's cub scout den. Any idea
> > if WPI does any thing similar? Even if it is something only for WPI
> > students it might be useful to alert people to the group's existence.
Hi All,
I’m considering a move from a traditional (and proprietary) PBX to something open-source that i can manage. I know very little about this, so i’m trying to understand if my goal is even possible. Given that our provider (i.e. gatekeeper) is Comcast, i worry they prevent running self-hosted VOIP boxes. Currently the office has 4 lines supplied by comcast. The comcast cable modem has 4 telephone lines going into a Panasonic PBX, which they dispatch the calls to the POTS phones. I want to replace the Panasonic PBX since its proprietary and requires a call into the phone company to change anything.
I have very little knowledge in this area, so i’m wondering if anyone here has had experience in this area.
Thanks!
- brad
Hey Gang,
We've got a meeting tonight at 7PM! It's still virtual because you know,
the pandemic.
Hopefully in the future we'll be able to stand 6' apart from each other and
hang out!
But until then, there's Jitsi! We'll be meeting here:
https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA at 7PM!
We'll likely jibber jab until it's late.. My neighbors house may or may not
catch on fire again!
I'm going to show off Min.IO running in a docker container. I can show the
web interface and then we'll stick some objects in the container. I know
that several other WLUG members are also using it in production so it'll be
interesting to get their take on it as well.
Then I suspect we'll end up talking about all things nerdy!
See you!
Tim.
--
I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
constituents as "consumers".
Hi! Hope this doesnt start a HUGE preference debate, but I'm taking feedback
on what some of you already know to be a "solid" not too big laser
black+white,
flatbed/top scanner+copier (no top sheet feeder please, adds too much
space/width)
BUT THE PAIN is always in the PRINTER drivers/software, win or linux, in my
experience.
Honestly, been battling w/PDF's too long, to an old-ish Brother HL-L2395DW
3-in-1
--I'm working mostly on Linux Mint 19 (a deviant ubuntu I highly recommend
for ex-win users)
--Printing most things OK. IIRC, didnt have to find Linux drivers the hard
way.
--Printing PDF's gets iffy. LibreOffice sometimes cures my blues;
DocumentViewer is probably the worst, "evince" also iffy, etc.
Sometimes "Data received"....ends with a silent chirp,
sometimes printer panel indicates a quick reject (nothing printed) saying
"Out of Memory",
BUT REALLY it's not the job == big, I think it
must be a nasty runaway/leaky PDF->driver thing, but if I
-- copy/email/send the nasty job to a win7 laptop and use AcroRead, USUALLY
gets it done.
Until today when ALL seemed to fail, I'm ready to cough up a few $hundred
for a better beast,
with wired ethernet+USB though I suppose it's pointless to avoid wireLESS
interface as long as it does wired ethernet. Oh look! Today's impossible
job just came out, from where! Losing my mind.
Budget: since not color, I could go over $300 or so, where most of the
decent ones sit.
Been an HP fan for a long time, but things change, and I'm open to other
solid models. Thx!
Hey Gang,
I hope you're having a happy and healthy safe 4th of July!!
We've got a meeting next week! I'm going to give a quick demo on Min.io,
we'll do a round table and I'm sure general tom foolery will occur!
Our usual Jitsi haunt will be where we'll meet until things improve, though
it's looking better for New England and worse for everybody else..
My hope is soon we'll be meeting at Technopia, but until then, we'll keep
the candle burning anyway we can!
Later,
Tim.
--
I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
constituents as "consumers".
