January 2012 Meeting

This month is our install fest!

Want to try a different distro? Maybe a different Desktop Environment? Christmas gift you need to configure? Or maybe you just have a piece of hardware that isn’t working quite right. Whatever the case, bring it in for this meeting. We will help you with whatever we can.

If you have a Distro or Desktop Environment that you want to showcase, bring it in!

Derrick will be giving a presentation on automating Debian/Ubuntu installs.

~Stack~ will be giving a presentation showing various Desktop Environments: Gnome3, Unity, Mint, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, and Enlightenment.

December 9th, 2011 Meeting

OKC LUGNuts will be meeting this Friday at 7pm at the OKC CoCo on 7th and Hudson. We hope you will join us.

We will be discussing plans for next months install fest and ~Stack~ will have a short presentation on netcat.

Also, if you work in the military and use (or wish to use) Open Source Software, we will be having a quick chat at 6:30 about a new local mil-oss.org group ~Stack~ is starting. If you are interested make sure you show up a bit early!

Meeting notes here: http://okclugnuts.org/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/33/december-9th-2011

Thanks to the Derrick and the CoCo for hosting! Thanks to Derrick, Jason, Thomas, and ~Stack~ for bringing drinks!

November 11th, 2011 Meeting

This month we will be meeting on November 11th at our usual time and location. 7pm at the OKC CoCo on 7th and Hudson. We hope you will join us.

We will have a special guest joining us this month. Lyndsey McDaniel is the president of the Computer Science Club at UCO. Many of us have been offering our time and presentations to local schools in order to reach more college students. This is an opportunity for us to help the school groups out by giving various talks to their clubs. Make sure to give her a warm welcome and find out if your specialty might be an interesting topic for her club members.

I have not received a single notice from anyone willing to give a talk this month. There are a few topic requests in the forums but no volunteers as of this writing. If I don’t have any volunteers I will pull a topic request and write up a presentation. I am also looking for someone to volunteer drinks this month.

October 14th 2011 Meeting

This months meeting will be on Oct 14th.

~Stack~ will be giving a presentation on using Kickstart for automated installs on Red Hat based systems.

If anyone else would like to present please post in the forum.

~Stack~, BJ, and Thomas will be bringing beers and sodas.

September 2011 Meeting

This month we will be meeting on Sept 9th at 7pm at the OKC CoCo.

Kyle will be giving a presentation on Mono and we have several others who may be presenting as well. I will update this post as soon as I get confirmation from those who have offered to give a talk.

See you there!

August 2011 Meeting

This month BJ is going to give a presentation on how he built a cluster this summer. Since this presentation may take some time, we ae going to start shortly after 7pm.

This month we are hoping to welcome several guests from Dell so please make sure you give them a warm welcome.

JED and Stack have already purchased the beer. If you have some you would like to share, we would be delighted at your generosity.

July 2011 Meeting

This month is the annual GUIfest meeting. There are only three (3, III, trois) rules in a GUIfest.

* All presentation are no more than 5 minutes
* All presentations must show off exactly one useful aspect of ANY Linux program that has a GUI
* Live demos only (no slides)
* If someone says “stop” or goes limp, taps out the fight is over
* All attendees MUST give a presentation (or suffer shame and humiliation)
* Ice cold beer from around the world must be served

okcCoCo JED and ~Stack~ are sponsoring with Craft Beer! We’ll have fine crafted beers from around the world. Ever go to the beer store and see those beers sold in a single bottle with weird names and shiny foil labels often covered in a layer of dust depending on the beer store and sometime contain fruit? Yeah… those will be served.

June 2011 Meeting

This month we should have several items of discussion which should be quite interesting.

Michael Beam gave a presentation last yearon using GPG keys to sign your email. Several of us took his advice and have since begun signing our emails with GPG keys. However, we never had a key-signing party to exchange those keys. This month, we will be signing keys throughout the meeting. If you don’t know what this is, we will be glad to tell you all about it, help you setup a key, and sign it for you if you want.

We will also have a short discussion about the new forums. We will set up accounts for members at the meeting and open it up to the public at a later date. I would like to get member feedback on the forum and find out what people want, how they want it organized, and ideas on a new theme.

Kyle Poston will be giving a short presentation on Linux in the realm of education. He will present items of interest he has found and would like some feedback on what he can do. This may even be something the group would be willing to help out on.

As always, if anyone has any other presentations or items they wish to discuss just let us know at the meeting and we will be more then happy to hear what you have to say.