June 13… It is only one week away from the AGM and there were minimal comments about elections so far.
Those new new to and revisiting GNU/Linux seem the fastest growing part of our group.
I would like to see information for computer fundamentals, followed by things specific to GNU/Linux. What ever I contribute will likely be GPLv3 licensed and epub or other open formats to share freely. The very nature of collaborative Linux is inclusive by nature so all are welcome.
We have seating for 40 people and we hope to end up with much more than a quorum.
Please note:
Additions to the club bank account signatory should happen as soon as the bank completes their paper work from our May 31 Letter of direction.
In an effort to be thorough in research I find I have to back off somewhat for now. Other technical volunteers stepping forward will be greatly appreciated. Otherwise things may take longer….
Interested in GNU/Linux?
Do you only see the possibilities and not the limitations?
Now is a good time to get involved.
Date: June 20, 2018
Time: 6:00 – 8:30 PM
Place: Nose Hill Library – 1530 Northmount Drive NW, T2L 0G6, Brentwood
The Lot on the east side of the Library building does extend to the West side so you should likely find a spot. You will have to leave the way you came in. I did not see an entrance on the west lot. Handicapped Parking is available.
Place: Louise Riley Library — Meeting Room 1
This meeting room is located across the parking lot in a separate building from Louise Riley Library. The address is 1920 14 Ave NW. My mark pin did not stick yet so just look for the building a little north of the Library
Time: 5:40 to 8:00 PM booked
Meeting to start by 6:00 PM
Main:
A Very Popular Linux Mint Computer Operating System – Programs Included
An honest commentary from John who was searching for a solid replacement form Windows 7 before support is pulled by MS
More:
We have started exploring for our selves rather than telling others what to do.
Tinkering at electronic tools toward collaborative meetings….
Inclusivity goes well with GNU/Linux, FLOSS, variety and collaboration
No need to discourage peoples silos of interests
safety/security concerns
We are see a diverse group starting to build. Mm, this should be interesting
Smaller groups have been meeting informally and more often then just the monthly meeting, in coffee shops friendly to digital connection or sometimes privately at some ones home.
Meeting at the Library has worked well to let every one see what is being shown by use of their large screen TV display for those who have problems seeing clearly over someones shoulder.
People showing up say they’re at a beginning level yet are not a stranger to the computer. We have a range of users so those interested in the command line or server side should be able to link up too.
Bring your own view points and lets share ideas. Thank you for respecting other points of view
Tell us your favorite applications. Fresh new ones are showing up in our modern GNU/Linux distributions.
November meeting rooms were strangely mostly booked up in November, hence I had to settle for Oct 31, the day before the first Wednesday of November.
Brief history
The variety of interests relating to Linux goes back a long time and is only accelerating to bigger and faster these days.
Focus
It should be an interesting topic as to who and what to focus on. In other words, who are we as a club and how are we defined. There is a lot of variety of interests and methods so I ask: Is this a liability or can we turn it into our strength?
I think we should make it easy for members to share and one idea that comes to mind is members becoming authors on our web site if they feel like it.
I believe in you. Do you believe in your self. If you can’t motivate your self how can you convince someone else to do it for you?
After I make sure I get some things done, hoping to shift more towards my own FLOSS interests
summary
Would love to see you at the meeting
decide on what you want
use it or lose it?
lets have some fun together
now that I hit publish I can go answer some user questions I owe someone
Public are welcome! Admission is free ($) Bring your own snacks.
Welcome back and thanks for your interest.
Topics:
Item 0)
Basics course. Have you noticed no one has yet offered to do it all for us? No judgement here.
It will much more fun to pick our own interest points. And who knows what we may find just trying things out for our selves?
Item 1A)
HUGO static web server. I see many interesting blogs on this and am attracted to it for a number of reasons. Take note of it’s license. Over a month ago I tried out HUGO the static website generator. I am revisiting this topic because of the extra work and security concerns with our WordPress setup. But mostly I want to have some fun.
I installed HUGO on a ubuntu based Solydxk 9 install using apt-get install hugo. It worked.
For the demo I will be using a Solus Linux 3 install.
# snap install hugo
# snap list
Name Version Rev Developer Notes
core 16-2.27.6 2898 canonical core
hugo 0.29 725 hugo-authors -
# snap info hugo
name: hugo
summary: "Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator"
publisher: hugo-authors
contact: https://discuss.gohugo.io/
description: |
Hugo is a static HTML and CSS website generator written in Go. It is
optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory
with content and templates and renders them into a full HTML website.
snap-id: t6YzDBM3com27avINGL5OD6ZKKG654ez
commands:
- hugo
tracking: stable
installed: 0.29 (725) 30MB -
refreshed: 2017-09-26 13:43:04 -0600 MDT
channels:
stable: 0.29 (725) 30MB -
candidate: 0.29 (725) 30MB -
beta: 0.29 (725) 30MB -
edge: 0.30-DEV (770) 30MB -
The demo is based on quick start.
https://gohugo.io/
I can see why developers say they have fun with this on their workstation/laptop.
Item 1)
Is modern GNU/Linux becoming cool yet? How has the World been changing and does it relate to Linux? Clubs? ( might have to defer this for now? )
Item 2)
What ever happened to CLUG Reboot?
Things that have not been fully addressed yet: a) making individual contributions easier to do on our own schedule and less time consuming. b) redefining club not discussed or documented. c) change starts with members willing to talk about this.
Item 3)
George Chase – Instructor, Information and Communications Technologies Dept. has deferred his talk to the new year or later.
George proposed a demo mini-lab showing us how to set up your own private internet on your LAN for fun and learning. Lets hope he can find some time for us.
Also, tell us about your interests in Linux and GNU (free/libre) software/hardware
Bring all your questions too! Looking forward to meeting you again.
Time:
Room is booked from 16:30 till 19:30
Normal meeting start had been 17:00 but we can be active before that.
This Central Library closes at 20:00 (8:00 PM).
Place: Central Library
Meeting Place: Central Library, Basement Rm 2
Street address: 616 Macleod Trail S.E.
Calgary AB T2G 2M2 (refer to map below)
Seating:
26 max at tables, more single chairs can be set up if required.
There are more topics for this meeting than just the demonstration/talk I promised.
TBA – a highly rated program I looked into (got 4.5 – 4.9 out of 5.0) that would seem to fit my clients needs and maybe our desires too. Up to date and runs on many operating systems. I will be asking your opinions at the meeting first rather than on line.
Learn more about membership benefits
More control over how you use your computer
Trust, Privacy and ease of use are being brought up or help requested. It use to be somewhat manual to set up but I have only started to look into this for more polished and modern applications.
Anyone still interested in help with installation or planning lets talk. The main kind of install, would require the least risk is a one blank hard drive install. (backups done or not needed) We can not call it anything like an install fest yet.
Some possibilities: Linux Mint (4 flavors), Linux flavored Solydxk rolling Debian LTS based on Stable, Debian Stretch for those up to it. My virtualbox got to kernel v 4.9.0 with aptitude safe-upgrade without seeming to break Stretch.
And three versions of Solus Linux including Gnome,plus KDE will be arriving soon.
Others?
How easy has the Linux workstation/laptop become for personal and networking use?
Last month, if you remember, I showed something NOT to do for those that noticed the kernel panic from booting an incompatible Multi-boot Live-usb.
Until you try it out in real life I do not see how to answer this. So I plan to bring along a small example of my improved experience to the meeting to show. Your mileage may very.
With so many hardware installs to play with I found ways to break and fix booting up. Legacy mbr boots and GPT uEFI
To get there (OS and setup) I found I had to chose my path very carefully to save on time.
On top of this I will try out an advanced game demo that used to be overly complicated to set up.
My demonstration is using lesser hardware in the way of an older laptop with only 4GB RAM but it is lighter to carry and does the job ok ish :)
Flightgear has been around for quit a while and is becoming more capable and polished. But in the past it was a bear to setup at all. A demonstration will have to be a small subset of the possibilities in the interest of time. But even difficult tasks are far easier to accomplish now. My demo is based on one of the two modern distributions that seem capable
The point is to show how much it has improved along with Linux but I will not say is any easier to learn how to fly. For that you will want to get qualified instruction unless all you are concerned with is where do I reset the simulator?.
Public are welcome!
Time: 17:00 – 19:30
The Library closes at 20:00 (8:00 PM)
Place: Central Library
Meeting Place: Central Library, Basement Rm 2
Street address: 616 Macleod Trail S.E.
Calgary AB T2G 2M2 (refer to map below)
Seating:
26 max at tables, more single chairs can be set up if required
