March Meeting

Posted on March 12th, 2010

The next meeting will be on Friday, March 12th at 7pm at the okcCoCo. Charles Southerland will give a presentation about PGP encryption. As always, we’ll also open the floor up to anyone interested in making a short presentation on whatever they are working on or finds interesting (to do with Linux). At this meeting we’ll be providing drinks. Bring your own food if you like.


February Meeting

Posted on February 11th, 2010

We discussed a group project and the Google Fiber Initiative. Jason Ormand gave a great presentation about software and hardware RAID solutions. We then had a discussion on long and short term data backup strategies. Stack then gave a presentation.


January Meeting

Posted on January 4th, 2010

The next meeting will be on Friday, January 8th at 7pm at the okcCoCo. We’ll start with a MythBuntu InstallFest. Chris Stackpole will help anyone that brings a system through the install and config of MythTV. Derrick Parkhurst will give a presentation on audio and video compression technology and formats, editing and transcoding software as well as where and how to get the best media including podcasts, music and movies. As always, we’ll also open the floor up to anyone interested in making a short presentation on whatever they are working on or finds interesting (to do with Linux).

We’ll have dinner and drinks generously donated by our meeting sponsor Brocade (http://brocade.com). Brocade is an industry leader in data center networking solutions and services that enable organizations to manage their most vital information assets. Brocade has pioneered the technologies that enable highly reliable and secure data center connectivity.


December – Holiday Party

Posted on December 8th, 2009

RSVP: Techmas Holiday Party

When: Thursday, December 17, 2009
Time: 6:00pm
Where: okcCoCo 723 North Hudson Oklahoma City, OK 73102


November Meeting

Posted on November 9th, 2009

Thanks to SKC Communications for sponsoring the meeting by providing food for the event.




October Meeting

Posted on October 5th, 2009


Tiger presentation slides (pdf)


September Meeting

Posted on August 31st, 2009

At the September meeting we had a huge turnout and James Deaton gave an outstanding workshop on using Screen.


We were lucky to have a keg of COOP ale beer to enjoy and to have had Lumenate generously agree to sponsor the meeting and provide pizza and desert.


August Meeting

Posted on July 15th, 2009


Making Software from Source – Charlie Southerland


Gimp and Wordpress- Jason Ormand


July Meeting – Modern Package Management

Posted on June 22nd, 2009

We will hold our monthy meeting Friday, July 10th at 7pm at The Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative. Michael Beam from Stuph Labs will be presenting a talk entitled “Modern Package Management”. He will discuss how to keep you packages up to date and synchronized with the modern package management systems YUM and Aptitude. Derrick Parkhurst will show you how to launch a Ruby on Rails website in under 10 minutes. Beer and soda will be provided. A Linux based LAN gaming contest will also be held so bring your PC and practice up on your bzflag.


First Meeting – Friday June 12th

Posted on June 22nd, 2009

We will hold our first meeting Friday at 7pm at The Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative. Derrick Parkhurst will talk about digital video capture and editing using Linux. Beer and soda will be provided. We’ll finish up evening with a little Linux based LAN gaming. Bring your PC!