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| Feb 2008: 6:45pm Group met at Camille's Sidewalk Cafe in Lancaster. Three people were at the meeting. These attendees may just be some of the most helpful ones in the group so we were generally able to answer most of each others questions. We easily connected to the internet and logged onto IRC. We expermented with Mandriva Compiz and you can see a few of the effects possible on this Mailing List entry. Do you have any questions or need help? At the command line (CL), use the man pages on your computer, refer to the User distros to see if someone in the group may already use your distro, go to the Support section of the distro you are using, or do a search on Yahoo or Google. In Konqueror, type man:/ and press [Enter] to access the manual entries as linked web pages. Also please note that some of our AVLUG experts are out-of-state, they're on the mail list, and they can probably answer the questions. | |
| Jan 2008: 6:45pm Group met at Camille's Sidewalk Cafe in Lancaster. Five people were at the meeting. Although the group was small, we were able to answer most of the questions. For help, go to the User distros to see if someone may have an answer to your distro specific question. | |
| Dec 2007: 6:45pm Group met at Camille's Sidewalk Cafe in Lancaster. Great food, company AND WiFi! Eleven people were at the meeting which, although a little cramped, was fun and informative. Users shared their current distributions that they are using. Discussion centered around Ubuntu and how Mandriva mounted the windows partitions. We went over how to use and/or copy data from the windows partition by using Konqueror or some of the applications themselves as long as the user knew where the info was stored. In case I went too fast or you have any more questions, feel free to post to the Mail List or send the email directly to me. If the question is something that would benefit reader, I would feel justified in removing the name & posting the question to the group, if that's OK. We touched on where the next meeting was to be held and whether the date was a problem. Remember, any suggestions or comments that you don't want posted publically in the Mail List Archive (for member privacy), may be sent directly to the persons you think know the answer or to the Mr GQ at gquinn.ext ( at ) gmail.com or me at caace (at) yahoo.com. Hope to see you at the next meeting!
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| Nov 2007: 7pm Group met at Camille's Sidewalk Cafe in Lancaster. Group of six met in the conference room where we lured a windows user to consider moving away from the dark side! ;-) Attendees asked questions and others shared their expertise in resolving the problem. These meetings are a great way to quick answers to user questions so it is great for all to attend and see the faces of those with which they are communicating. If you are new to the group, indicate your interest in attending (to an email address above ?) so we can consider topics to discuss. Hope to see you at the next meeting! | |
| Oct 2007: 7pm Group met at Camille's Sidewalk Cafe in Lancaster. Group of five met in the westerly eating area. Discussed Fedora & SUSE installs on 2 user's laptops and how the programs were running. Talked about wireless communication and applications that could be used in place of windows programs being used. Review the home page and the article at http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200707/ij_07_10_07a.html for more information. | |
| Jul 2007: 1:45 pm Group met at Camille's Sidewalk Cafe in Lancaster. Five were in attendance: John H., Barry T., John A., Tranina G., & Don G. John H., new to Linux and a past programmer, brought his whole system and asked for help getting Linux to recognize his Epson printer. We plugged everything in but Barry T. and John A. suggested the problem was more related to an old distribution and not the hardware. I was blown away by what happened next. John A. cranked up his "wow" type Linux notebook and downloaded the current distribution (using a Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess card) and burned it to CD. John A. didn't tell us his job level other than to, in conversation, say he hires programmers and directs their activities. I wish there had been some high skilled members for him to interact with. I was impressed, way out of my depth; maybe someone could call and invite him back. I got them to rate their own skill levels and his was Expert. [Meeting info provided by our President; although, slightly edited here.] | |
| Jun 2007 Group met at Camille's Sidewalk Cafe in Lancaster. Great food, company AND WiFi! Group shared their experience and talked about their use of Linux apps. | |
| 10 Mar 2007 We had a smaller group this time. Check out our attendance list. The meeting centered on distributions some of the members used and what they would recommend. Larry provided his experience and installation of Linux on his computer while the group made suggestions on other ways to improve the configuration for ease of use. Also talked about video and Linux on Macs. David demonstrated his home video system and talked about his Knoppmyth setup, its ease of installation, as well steaming video though vlc. | |
| Feb 2007 Meeting info not available at this time. | |
| 27 Jan 2007 We had the best attendance & meeting yet!!! Check out our attendance list. The initial discussion centered on our old, retiring, college-bound, president and our future, new, "volunteer" president, Don Glover. Thanks Don! Ideas were brought up on the best times and possible future meeting locations like the library or cultural center. Topics then went on to current distributions used by members and suggestions to 5 new users on how to install Linux on their desktops or laptops. A side group talked about drive designations and recommended partition sizes. As our trend toward more hands-on sessions continues, more troubleshooting of user problems will be addressed. Please turn in suggestions or questions and Make this LUG work for you! Private email responses are welcome by (most of) our users. :-) |
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9 Dec 2006 Meeting was held at Jonathan's computer shop. Meeting info to be added as it is provided. |
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| 9 Nov 2006 Core group met. Discussion centered on future meeting location. Future topics, more hands-on sessions and maybe troubleshooting user problems were also talked about. Feel free to turn in suggestions or questions! |
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| 25 Sept 2006 Group met at PC repair shop in the AV Tech Center at Tierra Subida (10th St West) and Palmdale Bl. We discussed favorite distributions and the various readily available within the group while the shop owner installed Ubuntu LINUX on a PC. We talked about the simplicity of installation and then tested out Ubuntu. Group leaders most interested in creating a clustering system were not able to attend. Maybe next time. Seems like evening meetings are better for most! |
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| August 2006 Group met and discussed Linux use in the AV and numerous other topics. Hardware was again brought up and how older equipment gets great performance with Linux. Some great news, a new member attended that can supply hardware for use and testing by AVLUG. |
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| July 2006 Group met at Panera Bread and discussed distributions and the need to get more familiar wireless connectivity. Some of our group looked like they really loved hacking their sysems late into the night!!! {;-)-{=== The good news, we all enjoy it. |
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| September 2005 - June 2006 Numerous meetings held by the core group and various attendees dropped in periodically. Of course, they brought in some good ideas and suggestions on topics. | |
| 04 August 2005 Five people showed up for this meeting: Mr. Eguia, Mr. Inglima, Mr. Stolz, Mr. Clark, and myself. The meeting lasted a little more than two hours (7:45-10:00). Possible topics for future meetings were discussed, relating to a more structured format. Alternative meeting places are being considered, which allow free access to wireless internet. An ad-hoc wireless network was also found to be a possibility. Various methods of generating interest in the LUG were brought up, including demonstrations and live cds. An RSS feed for the forum is being considered. |
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| 07 July 2005 No one showed up to this one...well, technically one person did, but they were inside, and I was outside. :-P |
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| 05 June 2005 Our second meeting! Three people showed up; Mr. Quinn (me), Mr. Wilson, and Mr. Eguia. Mr. Wilson brought his new laptop; we discussed a shutdown issue, among other things. Here is a picture of the meeting. I seem to look a little pink. ;) |
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| 01 May 2005 Yay! Our *almost* first meeting! :) Four people attended today. The webmaster of the AVMUG (www.avmug.org) decided to stop by. We discussed various computer-related topics, including microprocessor architecture and system stability. |
