WNYLUG workshop / installfest on September 26th 2009

WNYLUG will be holding it's next workshop / installfest on September 26th 2009 from 9:00am to 3:00pm at The PCA Group, 455 Cayuga Rd, Suite 200, Buffalo NY 14225 (Near the Airport)

This event is being held to assist with Linux issues and to review topics we discussed at previous meetings.

If you have issues with Linux bring in your laptop or desktop (monitors, keyboards and mice will be provided so you can leave yours at home) and we can take a look at it.

Installs can also be performed if you want to try Linux out. (We are offering installations of Ubuntu and Fedora distros)

Break-out groups covering various topics of interest may be held by individual members with something to share.

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Regards,
Brian Powell
http://fedoraproject.org
http://wnylug.org

ULLU Lug meeting...

jeremy austin-bardo wrote:

I thought I would notify the mailing list and possible members that live in Yates, Wayne, Ontario, Cayuga or Seneca Counties about their Linux User Group LUG. I have begun Upper Lakes Linux Users--Finger Lakes for my region between Ithaca, Rochester and Syracuse amongst the Finger Lakes in Western NY.

The group is meeting on Tuesday the 22nd of September at 7pm at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY in Gulick, Room 206B. We usually meet in various locations to share and nurture the Linux experience with one another. You can learn more about the group at http://linux.ausimage.us and a flier for this meeting is available at http://www.ausimage.us/uploads/Linux/ulluflyer-200909.pdf.

As I have sent out notice of my LUGs meetings... I encourage other members to let the list know about your Linux meetings and events. I feel it is apart of what the Team should be doing anyways--sharing opportunities to further network and educate on Ubuntu and Linux.

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jeremy austin-bardo
Ubuntu Communty Member / Ubuntu New York Leader / Ubuntu Scribes Leader

FUDCon Toronto 2009 update!

Paul Frields writes;

Howdy Fedora friends and neighbors,

Here's an update on the upcoming FUDCon in Toronto, being held
December 5-7. Before the details, I want to give some special thanks
and recognition to Chris Tyler of Seneca College in Toronto for his
continued, invaluable assistance in setting up FUDCon. His help made
it possible to establish a lot of these logistics while we were also
preparing for Fedora presence at the Red Hat Summit last week. Thanks
Chris!

You'll find a lot of the details up at the FUDCon wiki page here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009

FUDCon is free and open to *everyone* to attend. The wiki page is
chock full of details, but if you'd rather see the highlights now,
just read on...

September Disc Giveaway

I have to say I loved the banners that the NY Ubuntu LoCo and the UT Open Source Conference made to run at On-Disk.com so those two groups will each be getting 20 discs

So, it might seem obvious that the banner thing is a soft spot for me and I've decided to choose based on the best banners submitted to run at On-Disk.com again this month.

The banner submission process will work just like it's out lined in the official banner rotation post, but when you email me, include a short snippet about the group submitting the banner so I'll know who to contact should your banner be one of the best.

Now here's the fun part. Your banner could be for anything! You could use the impressions to advertise for an event your group is holding or just let the world know you're there with a link back to your home page. Your group could create a banner or banners for your favorite distros/applications and link to products in the On-Disk.com Catalog or out to the various project websites.

So gather your art teams and get started. You're getting free discs and free advertising - what do you have to loose?

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DissociatedPress- Corporate sponsors and event funding: Ask early, not often

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier writes:

If you’re hoping to get sponsorship funds for your event, it’s better to ask early than to ask often. And even better to ask professionally…

For larger companies (i.e., the ones that actually do have a fair amount of cash for sponsorships) it is vitally important to ask early about sponsorships. Especially for events that are not yet established. Annual events like LinuxTag fall more easily into budget planning because you can establish a baseline for funding those events and plan year to year whether it’s worth attending and how much it actually costs. In addition to sponsorship, companies have to factor in travel, shipping, materials, etc. — the costs of participating in a conference are not limited to the funds that are put in for sponsorship.

Read the full article in Zonker's Blog at http://www.dissociatedpress.net

Announcing FUDCon Toronto 2009

On 08/18/2009 12:01 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:

Thanks to the dedicated efforts of some of our ardent fans and friends
in the Fedora community in the great nation of Canada, we are heading
across the border for the next North American Fedora Users and
Developers Conference (FUDCon)! The next FUDCon will happen December
5-7, 2009, in Toronto, Canada at the Seneca @York campus.

Over the next few days planners will be setting up more information at
the event wiki page:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009

As you may know, FUDCon travels around the globe during the year. In
the summer we had not just one but *two* separate FUDCon events. One
was held in Latin America around the world-famous FISL conference.
The other occurred around the equally important LinuxTag event in
Berlin, Germany. We have held many North American FUDCons of the past
in Boston, Massachusetts, and we wanted to try a different location
for this event.

Learning about Community

This week, I've been in Boston with Sugarlabs.org, OLPC, and The Fedora Project.

So I bet you might be wondering what this has to do with activites in your FOSS Groups?

Well It's not a very long story and it has to do with being in the right place at the right time and being open to opportunities.

In January 2009, I attended an OLPC Grass Roots Meeting at RIT.

It resulted in the formation of a class who were some of the very first university students to learn FOSS development as part of their formal education.

Today, the meetings at the Red Hat Offices we hashed out what we can do next quarter to make it easier to introduce University Students to FOSS development. The better news is that the lessons we've learned at RIT and on our feild trip this summer will be available to everyone at TeachingOpenSource.org.

SALUG's "Bring in a computer which runs linux however it does not look like a computer" competition

Now I have to say this is one LUG meeting I'm sorry I will miss.

If you've talked to me in the last couple of day's you'll know that I'm completely taken by Edelweiss by Pius Giger aka Lessdegrees. What Can I say, I'm a girl who loves when someone breaks the design rules. After all, don't we have enough black boxes in our lives?

Install Fests - Skipping the updates.

When On-Disk.com decided to create an "Always Up To Date" version of Ubuntu there was evidently something we didn't consider and didn't make mention of it here at groups. Fortunately a customer reminded us.


by Anthony Zimmerman
Date Added: Saturday 18 July, 2009

This is awesome!

I go to a lot of linux install gatherings called 'install fests' and I finally have a place to tell people where they can get the latest Ubuntu so they dont spend the first half hour updating a new install. PASS THE WORD so on-disk will keep doing this unique disc!

I don't suppose you could do the same with linux mint?

Rating: 5 of 5 Stars!


So now we are testing to see if we can do the same with Linux Mint. If there is anyone who thinks also trying the same with another distribution would be feasible please don't hesitate to chime in.

The Best Sources for Free Unix and Linux Education Online

New Linux and Open Source users can be a double edged sword for any user group.

First you strive to get the word out about your favorite software titles, but then you've got to address the issue of bringing new users up to speed.

I did Stumble across this brief list of "The Best Sources for Free Unix and Linux Education Online" and wondered what other resources were out there?

I'm looking for Something between RTFM and and a formal university degree that can be used as a resource for new FLOSS users.

Any Ideas?