Linux User Group needs Meeting Room

[RHP Studios]

I am posting probably in the wrong forum, but chuck can move it to someplace better.

The Maysville Linux Users Group - http://www.maysville-linux-users-group.org - is looking for a meeting/conference room within Maysville in which we can hold a monthly meeting/get-together. The ideal room would seat approximately 30 users, and have facilities for the users to bring a laptop or computer system that could be hooked into a broadband (cable, dsl, satellite) internet connection (I will provide a firewall to seperate the meeting room from any internal networks if needed). We also need to have public restrooms.

This will be a single monthly meeting, probably during a weekend day (in the past it was the last saturday of the month). If a week night/evening is all that is available, we would also consider a week night/evening (although some of our members live well over an hour drive away).

Meetings generally last about 4 hours, although installfest (special events to install linux on lots of computers) can take up to 8 hours or longer.

The MLUG does not generate any type of income, so we are looking for a freebie!

If you know of such a place, please call Ed Wiget at 606-564-0323 or 606-407-1838. You can also pm me here or at the MLUG web site.

[mlug]

There will be a MLUG meeting Saturday, March 04, 2006 at 12:00 (noon) sponsored by the Maysville Community & Technical College - http://maysville.kctcs.edu The meeting will take place in the computer lab - more / updated details at the MLUG web site - http://www.maysville-linux-users-group.org

There will be several topics discussed plus lots of free stuff!!! Come out, socialize with other Linux users or those new to linux, and find out what Linux is all about. Meeting will last 2 - 4 hours and we usually have refreshments of some sort....

Meeting Agenda for home & businesses
* Welcome & Introduction
* Pass out CDS
Beginner/New to Linux Topics
* What is Linux
* What is a Linux User Group
* Overview of Using Ubuntu
Intermediate User Topics
* An Easy Way to Build a Secure Firewall for Linux, Cisco PIIX, others
Advanced Topics
* Compiling & Configuring Apache web server with MySQL + PHP + mod_security + SSL support
General Q & A

All MLUG meetings are free and open to the general public. Membership to the MLUG is also FREE!

Some of the free stuff includes (all cd's are professionally packaged, not home burned copies):

50 Ubuntu 5.10 Installation CD's for 32 bit pc's
50 Ubuntu 5.10 Live CD's for 32 bit pc's
10 Ubuntu 5.10 Installation cd's for 64 bit cpu's
10 Ubuntu 5.10 Live CD's for 64 bit cpu's
10 Ubuntu 5.10 Installation cd's for Mac/Apple
10 Ubuntu 5.10 Live CD's for Mac / Apple

25 - Roaring Penguin CanIT Enterprise Server CD's

T-shirts and other MLUG merchandise....

This MLUG meeting is sponsored, in part, by:
Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com
Roaring Penguin - http://www.roaringpenguin.com
Maysville Community & Technical College - http://maysville.kctcs.edu
And Linux Users all over the world....

The MLUG is also available for on-site commercial training or via our Online Distance Learning Classroom (many new classes coming soon) - http://www.maysville-linux-users-group.org/classroom

[kcredden]

Unless something bad happens, I'll be there. I'm going to get on linux full time this year, if I have to pay someone to do it for me :)

There will be a MLUG meeting Saturday, March 04, 2006 at 12:00 (noon) sponsored by the Maysville Community & Technical College - http://maysville.kctcs.edu The meeting will take place in the computer lab - more / updated details at the MLUG web site - http://www.maysville-linux-users-group.org

[RHP Studios]

Unless something bad happens, I'll be there. I'm going to get on linux full time this year, if I have to pay someone to do it for me :)

there has never been and never will any charge for non-commercial installations of linux by myself - call me 606-564-0323 or 606-407-1838 or will see you tomorrow - there will also be another installfest this year at the college if you want to wait until then and get hands on experience doing it yourself.

By the way......anyone who reads this should try to come tomorrow. If nothing else, just to see what linux really looks like.

Room AB318 - directions at the mlug web site.

[kcredden]

I'll be there, unless something bad happens. Got the laptop ready too. It needed a fresh install of Winders, so I've got space for linux. Aso got a copy of Fedora Core 4, and FreeSUSE. I've yet to be able to get any FC since v2 installed on any system. (keeps crashing for some odd reason.) Anyway, I'll bring them down tomarrow, and see what you can do.

there has never been and never will any charge for non-commercial installations of linux by myself - call me 606-564-0323 or 606-407-1838 or will see you tomorrow - there will also be another installfest this year at the college if you want to wait until then and get hands on experience doing it yourself.

By the way......anyone who reads this should try to come tomorrow. If nothing else, just to see what linux really looks like.

Room AB318 - directions at the mlug web site.

[RHP Studios]

I'll be there, unless something bad happens. Got the laptop ready too. It needed a fresh install of Winders, so I've got space for linux. Aso got a copy of Fedora Core 4, and FreeSUSE. I've yet to be able to get any FC since v2 installed on any system. (keeps crashing for some odd reason.) Anyway, I'll bring them down tomarrow, and see what you can do.

After trying ubuntu, you may want to try it instead of fedora core or suse - installation took less than 45 minutes, detected all hardware and set it up correctly on a laptop (which seldom ever happens without having to do some manual tweaking)...and correctly detected and installed all optional hardware I threw at it (web cams, firewire dvd recorder, usb scanners, printers, intelimouse pro, usb 7 channel sound card, firewire 16 channel hi-end studio mixer, super 8 camcorder via usb and firewire, etc)

It is also in the reviews section of the MLUG web site.....and I have lots of ubuntu cds to give out for free.....

[kcredden]

Sweet. I haven't tried to install any linux yet on the laptop; just now getting Windows 2k installed on it. I'll be glad to try Ubuntu down there. Thanks for the help.

After trying ubuntu, you may want to try it instead of fedora core or suse