PLUG - Phoenix Linux User Group

East Side Meeting

Topics: Various topics ranging form beginner's to advanced, user to administrator.
When: Second Thursday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: Kirk Student Center, Mesa Community College, 1833 W. Southern Ave., Mesa, AZ 85202
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Presentations This Month

Many uses for Live CDs
XBMC is not an Xbox Media Center

Topic: Many uses for Live CDs
Presenter: Dazed_75
Summary: LiveCDs are well known and commonly used to try out and install Linux distributions. We will talk about many other uses for them including some unconventional ones.
Bio: Larry (a.k.a. Dazed_75) is a computer hobbyist and a retired developer and manager of development in Unix, C, C++, Perl and even some DOS and Windows work. Just don't remind him about how much he has forgotten.

Topic: XBMC is not an Xbox Media Center
Presenter: Jason Holtzapple
Summary: XBMC is an open source software media player featuring a 10-foot user interface for your home theater PC. We'll walk through a demo of XBMC's features and talk about recommended hardware, extending XBMC and future directions of the project.
Bio: Jason is a system administrator with 15 years of experience living in Phoenix, Arizona. His current employer is Copart, an online vehicle auction company.

When: 7:00PM to about 9:00PM
What to expect:

The PLUG Development Meetings are held at the UAT on the first thursday of the month in room #203

Join the plug-devel email list to participate in running the devel meetings or to ask devel questions.

Presentations this month

Creating RPM Packages. We will review and build on past presentations of GNU autotools and show how to create RPM's using autotools and the rpm build system. We will then go over setting up and mirroring a YUM RPM repository.
When: First Thursday of each month at 7:30PM
Where: UAT

Where: University of Advancing Technology: 2625 W. Baseline Tempe, AZ 85283

(South side of Baseline Road west of I-10 roughly 2-3 blocks west of Fry's Electronics).

We are back in room 208

The monthly Installfest is co-sponsored by PLUG and the AZloco.

RSVP: InstallFest@PLUG.phoenix.az.us

Who: Anyone who wants to see Linux or run it on their computer.
- Volunteers always needed, please e-mail your pledge for time.

What to Bring:
- Your computer with specs including monitor, keyboard, mouse, and network card.
- What you hope to accomplish and learn by installing Linux
- Encouraged to RSVP but not required
- Additional materials are available. Click on the Installfest link in the left sidebar of the our home page.

Installations take 30 minutes to several hours, please arrive within the first few hours.

We will also help with installing Free Software applications such as Firefox, OpenOffice.org, the GIMP, Blender and Inkscape on other operating systems.

Topics: No formal presentation. Free discussion with wings and beverage available for purchase.
When: Third Wednesday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: Buffalo Wings & Rings, 2935 N Dysart road, Avondale, AZ 85323
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East Side Meeting

Topics: Various topics ranging form beginner's to advanced, user to administrator.
When: Second Thursday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: Kirk Student Center, Mesa Community College, 1833 W. Southern Ave., Mesa, AZ 85202
Open Street Map: MCC Campus

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Presentations This Month

Software Freedom Day is September 18th
We have a team registered for the day. Now we need to talk about how we can create an event!

GNU Social
Just as AOL and CompuServe were the walled gardens of the 90s, FaceBook, Twitter and MySpace are the walled gardens of today. GNU Social is designed to create a free and distributed social network. The alpha release was just announced and we'll take a look at it.

When: 7:00PM to about 9:00PM
What to expect:

* 6:30 - mingling/networking and last minute setup
* 7:00 - Formal meeting starts with announcements and other plug business>/li>
* 7:15-7:30 - Presentation(s)
* 9:00-9:30 - Clean up and CAT (Chat About Technology) at the local Filibertos. (We sit around and talk about Linux over Mexican food)

The PLUG Development Meetings are held at the UAT on the first thursday of the month in room #203

Join the plug-devel email list to participate in running the devel meetings or to ask devel questions.

Presentations this month

Introduction to Semantic Web, part2: Mechanics of the Semantic Web
When: First Thursday of each month at 7:30PM
Where: UAT


Brief: The presentation is an introduction to the tools used to display semantic information, design semantic information and deploying semantic information. Some of the most interesting semantic information is on the web and there are several browser add-ons that let you see what the machines are able to work with. Once you've seen it, why not try your hand at making some? re-Designing a simple example will give a good demonstration of Protege, a leading free Ontology design tool. Moving from the simple to a somewhat more "real world" ontology, provides a realistic transition from designing to deploying semantic information. In closing the circle, command line tools are used to query the Ontology just deployed to the semantic web. A quick tour of some of the most useful tools for the semantic web.


Presenter: Ed Nicholson, 0x1b, Inc.

IRC meetings for planning PLUG activities and working on PLUG activities and infrastructure.

Be prepared to help out if you show up.

2010Aug01 Agenda

• task updates?
• August devel topic(s)?
• August east side mtg topic(s)?
• August west side mtg topic(s)?
• west side mtg is moving
• ABLEconf meeting next Sunday evening
• Software Freedom Day participation

Meetings will take place on the first and third Sunday of the month at 20:00 in PLUG's IRC channel. We will skip dates that are holidays or on long weekends.

Date: First and Third Sunday of the month
Time: 20:00
Channel: #plugaz
Server: irc.freenode.net

Web interface for Freenode.

Presentations This Month

Soekris

Benjamin Francom will be demonstrating how to install Linux on a Soekris net5501 embedded appliance. The installation involves setting up a PXE boot server for the Soekris to boot from, with the base installation being done through a serial console. The Soekris appliances are nice for *BSD or Linux custom routers as they are low power, and hackable.

Presenter Bio

I currently serve as Chief Information Officer for a national corporation based in Arizona. Our main focus is in construction, and we have other subsidiaries in the manufacturing and restaurant industries. I oversee the technology, security, and communications for 24 remote offices throughout the United States. I love working with people and technology to see how creative approaches can be applied to leverage business strategies. I have been using and promoting Linux and FreeBSD since 2003, and we currently run Linux on the majority of the servers throughout our company. I received my Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering Technology from DeVry (Phoenix) in 2004, and my Masters degree in Information Management from ASU in 2009. My current technical interests include virtualization and security.

Topics: Various topics ranging form beginner's to advanced, user to administrator.
When: Fourth Wednesday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: DeVry, 2149 W. Dunlap Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85021

Start: 2010 July 31 - 10:00
End: 2010 July 31 - 16:00
Timezone: Etc/GMT-7

Where: University of Advancing Technology: 2625 W. Baseline Tempe, AZ 85283

(South side of Baseline Road west of I-10 roughly 2-3 blocks west of Fry's Electronics).

We are back in room 208

The monthly Installfest is co-sponsored by PLUG and the AZloco.

RSVP: InstallFest@PLUG.phoenix.az.us
- Your computer with specs including monitor, keyboard, mouse, and network card.
- What you hope to accomplish and learn by installing Linux
- Encouraged to RSVP but not required

Who: Anyone who wants to see Linux or run it on their computer.
- Volunteers always needed, please e-mail your pledge for time.

Installations take 30 minutes to several hours, please arrive within the first few hours.

We will also help with installing Free Software applications such as Firefox, OpenOffice.org, the GIMP, Blender and Inkscape on other operating systems.

IRC meetings for planning PLUG activities and working on PLUG activities and infrastructure.

2010Jun20 Agenda

• task updates?
• Denny getting pizza for July west side meeting
• get July west side topic, add it to calendar entry, post to lists
• get August east side topic, add it to calendar entry, post to lists
• keep announcing new east side location, include pizza before the mtg
• ABLEconf 2010 meeting next Sunday evening

Be prepared to help out if you show up.

Meetings will take place on the first and third Sunday of the month at 20:00 in PLUG's IRC channel. We will skip dates that are holidays or on long weekends.

Date: First and Third Sunday of the month
Time: 20:00
Channel: #plugaz
Server: irc.freenode.net

Web interface for Freenode.