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Next Meeting

Wednesday May 1, 2013 - 7pm
Topic: Monitoring files and directories using inotify by Steve Litt
Location: Stackframe
114 W. 1st St., Suite 246
Sanford, FL 32771-1273
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NOTE: Call Chris when you get there (407) 536-7308

Previous Meetings

Wednesday April 3, 2013 - 7pm
Topics: Ceph: A distributed and replicated file system by Eric Renfro
Location: Stackframe
114 W. 1st St., Suite 246
Sanford, FL 32771-1273
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NOTE: Call Chris when you get there (407) 536-7308

Wednesday March 6, 2013 - 7pm
Topics: This month we're changing things up a bit. We're going to have a casual get together at a restaurant.
Location: Siam Garden
1111 W Webster Ave
Winter Park, FL 32789

Wednesday February 6, 2013 - 7pm
Topics: Proxmox VE by Chris Jones

Location: Stackframe
114 W. 1st St., Suite 246
Sanford, FL 32771-1273
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Where To Park
NOTE: Call Chris when you get there (407) 536-7308

Wednesday January 2, 2013 - 7pm
Topics: Dynamic DNS and Beliefs Influencing Performance and Career both by Steve Litt

Location: Stackframe
114 W. 1st St., Suite 246
Sanford, FL 32771-1273
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Where To Park
NOTE: Call Chris when you get there (407) 536-7308



Wednesday December 5, 2012 - 7pm
Topic: Customizing a LiveCD by Michael Salisbury
Location: Stackframe
114 W. 1st St., Suite 246
Sanford, FL 32771-1273
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Where To Park
NOTE: Call Chris when you get there (407) 536-7308



Wednesday November 7, 2012 - 7pm
Topic: Introduction to LDAP by Tony Cesaro
Location: Valencia College - East Campus, Building 2, Room 119
http://valenciacollege.edu/AboutUs/locations/east_campus.cfm (new location)


Wednesday October 3, 2012 - 7pm
Topic: Distributed Filesystems discussion
Location: Valencia College - East Campus, Building 2, Room 119
http://valenciacollege.edu/AboutUs/locations/east_campus.cfm (new location)


Saturday September 15, 2012 - 10am - 5pm
Topic: Buildfest - do your own thing :)
Location: FAMiLab 1355 Bennett Drive #129 Longwood, FL 32750 (407) 406-5946


Wednesday September 5th, 2012 - 7pm-9pm
Topic: Open Source SSH based Dropbox replacement by Chris Jones
Location: Valencia College - East Campus, Building 2, Room 119
http://valenciacollege.edu/AboutUs/locations/east_campus.cfm (new location)


Wednesday August 1st, 2012 - 7pm-9pm
Topic: Setup Claws Mail to do email through a home computer by Steve Litt
MPD by Chris Jones
Location: Stackframe
114 W. 1st St., Suite 246
Sanford, FL 32771-1273
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Where To Park
NOTE: Call Chris when you get there (407) 536-7308

Wednesday July 11th, 2012 - 7pm-9pm (not the 4th)
Topic: Living in the Linux Command Line environment by Chris Jones and Steve McCoy
Summary: How to optimize your experience working with the command line in Linux. This will include information on tmux as well as other related technology.
Location: Valencia College - East Campus, Building 2, Room 203
http://valenciacollege.edu/AboutUs/locations/east_campus.cfm (new location)

Wednesday June 6th, 2012 - 7pm-9pm
Topic: Window Manager Shootout

• Xfce by Steve Litt
• Fluxbox by Steve McCoy
• Awesome by Chris Jones

Location: Full Sail University, Building 3C Room 115

Wednesday May 2nd, 2012 - 7pm
Topics: Multiple mini presentations by: Numerous presenters :)

Location: Full Sail University, Building 4A Room 102 (by FireHouse & Crispers)


Wednesday April 4th, 2012 - 7pm
Topic: Python Basics by David Billsbrough and Steve Litt
Summary: If you're interested in Python, you won't want to miss April 4th's meeting as David Billsbrough and Steve Litt's presentation to "Introduction to the Python" programming language. David will delve into the benefits of using Python as well as how to write excellent Python. Steve will delve into writing object oriented Python, specifically: "How to make classes, how to instantiate objects from those classes, and a tiny bit about inheritance and "what's the deal with private variables."
Location: Full Sail University, Building FS3B, Room 309

Wednesday March 7th, 2012 - 7pm
Topic(s): Monitoring services (Zabbix, Nagios, Cacti, etc...) by Steven McCoy
Summary: The March 7th meeting is going to be a blast. Come join us as Steven McCoy discusses monitoring services. He'll be covering topics including Cacti trending, Nagios systems monitoring, and how Zabbix combines both functionalities into one cohesive product.
Location: Full Sail University, Building 3B, Room 131
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Wednesday January 4th, 2012 - 7pm
Topic(s): OpenSSH Tips and Tricks by Kevin Korb
Location: Full Sail University, Building 3B, Room 113
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Wednesday November 2nd, 2011 - 7pm
Topic(s): Troubleshooting djbdns. by Steve Litt
Location: Full Sail University, Building 3B, Room 131
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Wednesday October 5th, 2011 - 7pm
Topic(s): How to get along in a shared hosting environment where you are not root. by Kevin Korb
Location: Full Sail University, Building 3B, Room 131
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Wednesday August 3rd, 2011 - 7pm
Topic: "Introduction to Drupal Administration" by Dan Eveland
Location: Full Sail University, Building 4A, Room 106

Wednesday July 6st, 2011 - 7pm
Topics: Contributing to OpenSource projects by David Billsbrough (kc4zvw)
Linux on a Nokia phone by Steven McCoy
Location: Full Sail University, Building 3B, Room 136

Wednesday June 1st, 2011 - 7pm
Topic(s): Exim by Xyon (Steve)
Location: Full Sail University, Building 3B, Room 112
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Wednesday May 4, 2011 - 7 pm
Topic(s): Antitrust (the movie)
Location: Full Sail University, Building 3B, Room 137

Wednesday April 6, 2011 - 7pm
Topic(s): Do-It-Yourself Backup System Using Rsync and Btrfs by Kevin Korb
Location: Full Sail University, Building 3B, Room 137
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Wednesday March 2, 2011 - 7 pm
Topic(s): IPv6 by Derek Konigsberg
Location: Full Sail University, Building 3B, Room 309

Wednesday February 2, 2011 - 7 pm
Topic(s): Movie - Office Space
Location: Full Sail University, Building 3C, Room 102

Wednesday January 5, 2011 - 7 pm
Topic(s): Lua by Zane W. Pickett
Location: Full Sail University, Building 3C, Room 120
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Wednesday December 1, 2010 - 7 pm
Topic(s): Random discussion on SSH
Location: Full Sail University, Building 3B, Room 309
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Wednesday November 3, 2010 - 7 pm
Topic(s): GNU Screen Discussion
Location: Full Sail University, Building 3B, Room 112
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Wednesday October 6, 2010 - 7 pm
Topic(s): Programming round-table
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Wednesday September 1, 2010 - 7 pm
Topic(s): Rapid Learning by Steve Litt
Location: Full Sail University, Building 3B, Room 131

Wednesday July 14, 2010 - 7 pm
Topic(s): SIMD by Eric Mason
Location: Full Sail University, Building 4E, Room 103
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Wednesday June 2, 2010 - 7 pm
Topic: RealTime Linux and Linux audio
Presented by: Andrew Euell
Location: Full Sail University, Building 3B, Room 131
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Wednesday May 5, 2010 - 7 pm
Topic: Vinyl Digitization
Presented by: Steve Litt
Location: Full Sail University, Building Room 3B, Room 308
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Topic(s): We will be having the following mini (5-10 minute) presentations:

• C# on Linux (mono) by Gary Miller
• Ardour by Andrew Euell
• Git & GitHub by David T. Harris
• LVM2 and ext4 by Kevin Korb
• sshfs by Kevin Korb
• Ten Minutes to Better Troubleshooting by Steve Litt

Location: Full Sail University, Building Room 3B, Room 130
NOTE: The meeting this month is on the second Wednesday of the month rather than the 1st Wednesday.
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Do you have a small presentation you want to give that's Linux related? If so, reply or DM the golug twitter account or post it to the mailing lists

Tuesday March 2, 2010 - 7 pm
Topic: DIY Backup System Using Rsync
Presented by: Kevin Korb
Location: Full Sail University, Building Room 3F, Room 124
NOTE: The meeting this month is on Tuesday rather than Wednesday.
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February 3, 2010 - 7 PM
Topic: FCC Guidelines as they now pertain to online testimonials
Presented by: Andy Stetzinger
Location: Full Sail University, Building 3F, Room 124
Update: Unfortunately Andy didn't make it out tonight. We did however end up discussing Java v.s. .NET, Google Android, ARM, and other topics.
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January 6, 2010 - 8 PM
Topic: No official topic - we will be gathering for dinner though
Presented by: Everyone :)
Location: Siam Garden Thai Restaurant
NOTE: We will NOT be gathering at Full Sail this month like we normally would. Please see the location above.

December 2, 2009 - 7 PM
Topic: Open Source Virtualization - KVM and Linux
Presented by: Red Hat Solutions Architect Manager: Kyle Gonzales
Full Sail University, Building 4E, Room 105
A brief bio on Kyle can be found here
Note: For this meeting GOLUG is joining forces with LEAP to bring quality Linux content to Orlando

November 4, 2009 - 7 PM
Topic: pthreads
Presented by: Gary Miller
Full Sail University, Building 3C, Room 103

October 7, 2009 - 7pm
Topic: Home Network Engineering Kevin's Way
Presented by: Kevin Korb
Full Sail University, Building 3B, Room 113

September 2, 2009 - 7pm
Topic: OpenVPN
Presented by: Kevin Korb
Full Sail University, Building 3B, Room 137

August 5, 2009 - 7pm
Topic: Primer to Plug Computing
Presented by: Bryan Smith
Full Sail University, Building 3B, Room 305

July 1, 2009 - 7pm
Topic: Linux Mint
Presented by: Steve Litt
Full Sail University, Building 3C, Room 120

June 3, 2009 - 7pm
Topic: Social Networking Tools -- Web 2.0 & stuff!
Presented by: David Billsbrough
Full Sail University, Building FS1, Room 123A

May 6, 2009 - 7pm
Topic: Qt computer programming framework
Presented by: Richard Ostrow
Full Sail University, Building 2, Room 202R (2nd floor)

April 1, 2009 - 7pm
Topic: TeX reporting and Gnumeric data extraction
Presented by: Steve Litt
Full Sail University, Building 3C, Room 120

March 4, 2009 - 7pm
Topic: Prime Number Generator
Presented by: Steve Litt
Full Sail University, Building 3C, Room 120

February 4, 2009 - 7pm
Topic: FreeBSD
Presented by: Derek Konigsberg
Full Sail University, Building 1, Room 125A

January 7, 2009 - 7pm
Topic: Samba-based alternative to WebDAV
Presented by: Jon Day
Full Sail University, Building 3C, Room 102

GoLug's informational presentations are presented every month on the first Wednesday of that month.

These presentations are typically on the first Wednesday of the month, at 7PM:

   Valencia College East Campus
   701 N Econlockhatchee Trail
   Orlando, FL 32825
   Phone: 407-299-5000

Location info: http://valenciacollege.edu/AboutUs/locations/east_campus.cfm
Driving Directions: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=701+N+Econlockhatchee+Trail,+Orlando,+FL+32825&iwloc=A&hl=en