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Re: WLUG history

by Andy Stewart

On 1/14/20 8:03 PM, Jon "maddog" Hall via WLUG wrote: > GNHLUG started in 1995, but was reduced to a mailing list about ten years ago. > It no longer holds meetings. Every once in a while someone tries to > resuscitate it, but it eventually goes into a coma again. > > I think BLU has been around a long time. It is what is left from the Boston > Computer Society, and as such may have pre-dated even GNHLUG. I believe that BLU predates WLUG by quite a bit. I had just started learning about Linux, and I knew nothing of the GPL or the ideals surrounding Free Software. I decided that I wanted a place to hang out with people more knowledgeable about Linux. I lived in Worcester at the time, and I didn't want to drive to Boston or New Hampshire for a meeting due to the distance. I had never been to a user group meeting of any sort, yet I decided to jump into the deep end of the pool, with no clue of what to do, or how to do it, or what the result would be. All I thought was that people needed to be brought together. As a WPI alumnus, it seemed like a natural place for such a gathering. WLUG's first meeting was in July 1997 in the WPI Library. Maddog was there, and our first speaker was Jim Paradis. We had 17 people in attendance. I distinctly remember maddog telling me at that time that if we had 17 people in attendance in a year, we'd be doing quite well. We purchased really expensive food from DAKA, the WPI cafeteria service at that time. Later, we moved to different rooms on campus, and I brought soda and cookies. I never believed in charging membership dues for WLUG. I decided to go with small voluntary donations, just to defray costs, and no more. Somehow, it worked. We had something on the order of 50 people show up at what I think was probably the best attended WLUG meeting in history. I don't remember the year, but KDE had just come out, and I gave a talk about it. I have a feeling that this meeting took place in the big room in Olin Hall. The summer parties were always a big hit. Great food, conversations, and great people. While we occasionally had a speaker from outside of the club, most of the speakers were members of WLUG. We have a very talented membership who was never afraid to get up in front of the crowd to share what they know. I learned a lot from WLUG, both technically and otherwise. WLUG has its own Tux penguin, hand made by Doug Waud. WLUG Tux shows up at summer gatherings and other unexpected times. I'm sure if a bunch of us sat together after a WLUG meeting, we'd recall more stories and could, if desired, document the club's history. I think it would be a lot of fun! Andy

5 years

Re: Physical WLUG Meeting is cancelled tomorrow...

by John Stoffel

Tim> I'm cancelling the physical WLUG meeting for March. Not a bad idea. Tim> WPI just put out a notice that they're closed for all Tim> events/meetings and I've been contacted by several members that Tim> they're going to be staying home out of an abundance of caution Tim> or they're under the weather... Tim> I'll be in our IRC channel tomorrow night and we can continue the fun online! Tim> Hopefully things will calm down for April. Heh, I haven't used irc for over a decade now, and never was a big irc user. Maybe I'll try to join up thursday night. I've been messing around with ATTiny85 chips and programming them from Linux lately. Need to get off my duff and do more with it. Ideally I'll be able to give a talk about KiCAD and designing boards with Linux (and windows) software. Very cool stuff. John

4 years, 10 months

Re: Meeting tomorrow!! Topic: The tao of linux.

by Jon "maddog" Hall

Sounds like a great meeting, especially for "newbies". Unfortunately I have a dinner theater engagement at that time, so have fun! md On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 11:38 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > Hey Everybody! > > Date: August 8th @ 7PM > Location: Techncopia, 44 Portland st. Worcester MA > Virtual location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA > > We've got a meeting tomorrow! I'm planning on giving a short talk on the > history of linux, how we got here, where are we going, why it matters and > delve into some unix history and philosophy.. i.e. "everything is (mosly) a > file.. no really.." > > I fully expect all the usual suspects will also have interesting tidbits > to add, corrections to make and generally it should be an interesting talk > to help people new to the FOSS world and in particular the linux world why > we love linux and why we think it's great. > > As usual we'll head off for dinner afterwards and keep the conversation > going! > > I hope to see you there! > Tim. > > > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their > constituents as "consumers". > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/XJTBR… >

5 months, 1 week

Re: [Wlug] WLUG meeting - can someone post a summary?

by Andy Stewart

On Friday 18 April 2003 1:41 pm, John Stoffel wrote: > Hi all, > > Can someone post a summary of the presentation on the Digital Video > Recorder Tim did earlier this week? I'm interested in learning more, > but I wasn't able to make the meeting. > > John HI John et al, I posted a brief summary on the WLUG website, under Past Meeting Information. If anybody wants to embelish the description, please send me your suggestions and I'll post them. In fact, I found the talk so interesting that I just went out and bought the Hauppauge PVR-350. When it shows up, I'll have somthing with which to play. The MythTV website said that the CVS version of their software now (mostly) works with this card. We'll see... :-) It was a good talk! Thanks, Tim! Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

21 years, 8 months

Reminder! Meeting April 13th @ 7PM

by Tim Keller

Hey Gang, This is reminder that we've got a meeting this week! Location: Campus Center Room 331 Time: 7PM Topic: To be decided! Let me know if there's something that you have a burning urge to talk about! Thanks, Tim. Per our last meeting, here were some of the topics... Media server bake off Kodi (Xbmc) PLEX media center /server Open media vault (runs PLEX) Open ELEC (runs Kodi) Linux Arcade machines Research Distros Home Backup Server (zfs for linux) Bake off of backup solutions Sysadmin automation tools Salt / Puppet / Chef / Ansible Nicholas Howgraham-Grave Talk about finding flaws in RSA SHA1 collison stuff Git development Methods Virtualization on linux KVM / Vmware / OVB / Xen / Qubes Privacy on Linux: What to do when you're convinced the goverment is watching. Encrypted FS 2FA Isolated applications What distro is snowden running? 3d Printing and linux Tools for linux -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

7 years, 9 months

REMINDER: Upcoming Meeting on Wednesday, 7 PM

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Everybody, Our next WLUG meeting will be on Wednesday evening, 7:00 PM, somewhere on the WPI campus in Worcester, MA USA. Our guest speaker will be Mike Bauer, and his talk will be a legal interpretation of the GPL. Mike has degrees in both law and computer science. Mike plans to discuss: a) The GNU philosophy behind the GPL, both from freedom and copyleft perspectives b) A brief introduction to copyright law c) Scholarly papers (law review articles, other non-case-law analysis) on the GPL d) Cases dealing with the GPL When I know the actual meeting room, I'll let you know. I look forward to seeing you on Wednesday. Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org) Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393) Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFKtYhiOjiraCaOTOoRAldmAKCpR2wGo1RRO4KE9u1FPU4yEu+R7gCbBGut f2xLKDf7XoiPIao+jhpSME8= =NwgC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

15 years, 3 months

Re: Dec. Topic: DMARC, SPF ...; Jan. Topic: Keith's Problem

by Tim Keller

Excellent Keith! That was the plan and I'm glad we're sticking with it! Thanks, Tim. On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 7:49 PM Keith Wright via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes (edited): > > > Hey Everybody! > > > > We've got a meeting [tomorrow] Next Week! > > Date & Time: 2019-Jan-10 + 24:00 UTC > > Location: WPI Student Center Mid Century Room (rm 331) > > According to the calendar at http://www.wlug.org/ > there is a meeting next Thursday. Before the > last meeting I volunteered to make a presentation, > mainly because I thought there were no other volunteers. > That turned out not to be the case. Frank gave an > excellent presentation of newer email protocols. > The meeting ended with Tim saying I (Keith) would do it > next time and me saying I could not promise that > because sometimes I have overriding Thursday commitments. > > I can now say that I am free next Thursday, and therefore > plan to attend WLUG and can do it then. > > Alternately, if someone else has a plan for next meeting > I can do it some other time. No hurry. No worry. > > -- Keith Wright, > Programmer in Chief, Free Computer Shop > http://www.free-comp-shop.com/ > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

6 years

Re: Thanks for a great meeting last night!

by Richard Klein

Shoot! I didn't have the meeting on my calendar! I'll add the next one now. -- Rich On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 1:09 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > As usual at WLUG, we went off on a tangent and it was amazing.. What > started out as a side conversation about storage technologies turned into > 1.5 hour conversation about LVM / ZFS on Linux / Ceph / GlusterFS / > Synology / FreeNAS / NetAPP and the general philosophies around managing > scalable storage at home and in the enterprise! > > This conversation continued at the Boynton and was great fun! > > Next meeting is the 10th of October! > > Later, > Tim. > > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their > constituents as "consumers". > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org >

5 years, 4 months

Re: Physical WLUG Meeting is cancelled tomorrow...

by Chris Thompson

I would certainly recommend organizing in IRC, but for more interaction, Jitsi is worth a shot. Zoom does work very well on Gnu/Linux, but yes - proprietary, so, personally not interested in using them more than I already am coerced to :P Jitsi usually handles rooms with up to about a dozen people pretty well, but often struggles beyond that. Most issues are resolved with a simple reload of the page. Try it out @ either of these instances, no registration require: https://meet.jit.si/ (typically pretty bleeding-edge, so sometimes less stable) or: https://meet.mayfirst.org/ (pretty up to date, but generally more stable of late) Tim, you may be able to recover your ident info with the following, once you've connected with #Freenode. If the name is registered with NickServ, it'll email you at the registered address: /msg NickServ SENDPASS turbox --Chris IRC: wolcen On 3/18/20 11:28 AM, Keith Wright via WLUG wrote: >> Subject: [WLUG] Re: Physical WLUG Meeting is cancelled tomorrow... >> From: madserge--- via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> >> >> Never used IRC before but I do have an app on Manjaro called >> Konversation that I think is a IRC client, would like to join if anyone >> can tell me any info about the chat room that would be great! > How did this work? > > I used IRC once before. A friend said "let's try this", > and told me what program to run and how to start. > > The conversation went something like: > Hi, are you there? Yes. It works! Yes. Well goodbye. > > That was many years ago, and I have forgotten the name > of the program. Then I got busy and forgot the WLUG > meeting entirely. > > Diane has been using something called Zoom on Windows. > Google turns up some hints that Zoom can work on Linux, > but it seems to be a binary mystery code that connects > to the mother ship and does secret stuff...anybody know? > > -- Keith > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/MZ7RF…

4 years, 9 months

Meeting Reminder: Jan. 17th, 2017: "How to pick a single board computer"

by Tim Keller

Hey Gang, This is a reminder that there's a WLUG meeting January 17th, 2017! Here's all the vital details! Topic: How To Pick A Single Board Compuer Speaker: Jon "maddog" Hall Time: 7pm Location: Campus Center Room 331 "Mid Century Room" While in the near past there were few choices when it came to "SBC" single board computers, that's not the case anymore. Now there's a whole cornucopia of choices and architectures. Thankfully, Jon "Maddog" Hall is going to get help navigate the myriad of choices. Like always expect his talk to be educational and hilarious! Snacks and refreshments will be provided and as always they'll be pizza down at Tech to continue the conversation. Thanks, Tim. P.S. I'll be unable to attend this meeting due to a prior engagement. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

8 years

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