September 1st, 2010 (doors open at 6:55 PM, meeting: 7:00 PM - 9:45 PM)
Location:
DeVry Institute of Technology (Room 201)
2700 - 3 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta
(403) 235-3450

Topics:
Gustin Johnson will be doing a lightning talk (topic: TBD)
John Bristowe will also be doing a talk (topic: TBD)
How to set up your own IRC server (and client) (attempt 2)- Ever wanted to know how to use Internet Relay Chat? We'll go over how to set up your own IRC server and connect to other popular servers.

August 4th, 2010 (doors open at 6:55 PM, meeting: 7:00 PM - 9:45 PM)
Location:
DeVry Institute of Technology (Room 201)
2700 - 3 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta
(403) 235-3450

Topics:
Micro-distros - There can be a whole lot of power in tiny packages. Micro-distros pack a punch, often in a footprint smaller than 100MB!
How to set up your own IRC server (and client) - Ever wanted to know how to use Internet Relay Chat? We'll go over how to set up your own IRC server and connect to other popular servers.

This month's meeting started off with a tailgate barbecue, with Kin bringing a grill and everybody chipping in with food and conversation. We liked it so much, we'll try doing it again on the next meeting August 4th :-)

The first presentation was by Eric Beaudoin on the m4 macro processor. With m4, you can easily change around parts of your source code, regardless of language. For more information on m4, check out its manual.

July 7th, 2010 (doors open at 6:55 PM, meeting: 7:00 PM - 9:45 PM)
Location:
DeVry Institute of Technology (Room 201)
2700 - 3 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta
(403) 235-3450

"Introduction to the m4 macro processor" will be presented by Eric Beaudoin.

Some other proposed talks for this meeting:
Steam is coming to Linux!

June 2nd, 2010 Meeting Notes

We looked at new releases:
Slackware 13.1 - http://slackware.com
Fedora 13 - https://fedoraproject.org/
Vinux 3.0 (Linux for the Visually Impaired) - http://vinux.org.uk/

We took a look at the photography program F-Spot, and how easy it was to sync up with external services. We also took a look at the Canon Hack Development Kit, which allows you to extend your Canon camera at the software level.

There's a new Memory Express in Dalhousie

June 2nd, 2010 (doors open at 6:45 PM, meeting: 7:00 PM - 9:45 PM)
Location:
DeVry Institute of Technology (Room 201)
2700 - 3 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta
(403) 235-3450

Coming off of last month's meeting, we've got a lot more presentations on the way!

Some proposed talks for this meeting:
Disaster recovery - at home and work
cron jobs for every occasion
creating Slackware packages (it's easy!)

May 5, 2010 CLUG Meeting Notes

We talked about the mail server going down. The problem was that the Mailman service had stopped. We've got a cron job that now checks it periodically, and we're going to keep a closer eye on it. Should you ever have problems sending mail to the list, send an email to the CLUG President and let them know.

There was a quick look at Cowsay, and how you can alias it to different commands for comical effect.

Date: May 5th, 2010
Topic: Micro-presentations
Time: Doors open at 6:45 PM, meeting: 7:00 PM - 9:45 PM
Location:
DeVry Institute of Technology (Room 201)
2700 - 3 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta
(403) 235-3450

Working with the new CLUG Mission Statement, we are going to try 'micro-presentations' for this month's meeting. All attendees are encouraged to give short 3-5 minute presentations on cool things they've been working on and discovered. No talk is too big or too small!

Also:
* The mailing list - what happened, and how we're going to prevent future outages

DATE: March 3rd, 2010

MEETING INFORMATION:
Topic: Virtualization Shootout
Topic Area: Virtualization
Difficulty: n/a
Presenter: Gustin Johnson
TIME:
Doors Open: 6:45 PM
Meeting Start: 7:00 PM
Meeting End: 9:45 PM

LOCATION:
DeVry Institute of Technology (Room 201)
2700 - 3 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta
(403) 235-3450

COST: Free Admission (Donations are welcome)

Gustin Johnson will be speaking on Virtualization Shootout. Gustin will be looking at the pros and cons of using VMware, WMware Workstation, ESXi, KVM, and VirtualBox. Hope I haven't missed anyone here.

DATE: April 7th, 2010

MEETING INFORMATION:
Topic: Discussion about databases
TIME:
Doors Open: 6:45 PM
Meeting Start: 7:00 PM
Meeting End: 9:45 PM

LOCATION:
DeVry Institute of Technology (Room 201)
2700 - 3 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta
(403) 235-3450

COST: Free Admission (Donations are welcome)

* Talk/Discussion about databases - what they are, how to use 'em, and the "NoSQL" movement (and yes, there's plans to have the notes and audio online)
* An open CLUG letter to the CBC regarding Linux support
* We'll see how the PROG-SIG group is coming along in the game contest