January Meeting Minutes: 01/13/12

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Jan 312012
 

Happy New Year everyone!!

RRLug started off the new year  in a great new meeting area. We are now being sponsored by Rasmussen College. (Thanks PJ)  We had a total of 10 people attend the January  meeting. It was an awesome meeting because arrangements were last minute, and we still had an great turn-out. We even had a couple of people attend that hadn’t been to meetings in a number of years, including one that had moved to Tennessee and has now come back. Welcome back Derald!

Sam Williams gave an introduction to the open-source Arduino project. Explaining details about the project, the different boards, and a variety of other project details. He then proceeded to demonstrate how easy they are to program. By the end of the night we had gone over many of the  details of its programming IDE and language and created a  simple Morse code program to blink out SOS. The meeting went well and everyone seemed to have a really good time.

There will be more Arduino projects coming in future meetings. In the meantime, please planing on coming to the February meeting on February 10th @ 6:30pm. Look forward to seeing you there.

 

 Posted by sam at 12:51 am

Happy New Year – 2012

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Dec 312011
 

We would like to wish everyone a safe and fun-filled New Years Eve celebration! In 2012 we wish everyone health, wealth, and happiness!

 

Best regards,

Sam Williams

 

 Posted by sam at 9:44 pm

Seasons Greetings from Rock River Linux Users Group

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Dec 242011
 

We at RRLug would like to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season! Kick back, relax, spend time with those that are important, and definitely reflect on the gifts you’ve received during the past year. The holiday season is about connecting with those you love and about being grateful! Of course if you have a chance you can also do a little playing with the best software on the planet!!!

Best Wishes,

Sam Williams

 Posted by sam at 12:38 pm

November LUG Meeting 11/12

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Nov 082011
 

Just wanted to remind everyone that we are scheduled to have the November LUG meeting this Saturday (11/12) from 10:30 -2:30. We will have the remaining two meetings of the year at the Cherry Valley Public library! Look forward to seeing you all there!

 Posted by sam at 2:23 pm

New LUG Location / Time

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Oct 182011
 

Just wanted to let everyone know that there is a strong possibility that  RRLug will get a new location very soon. The goal right now is to target Thursday nights, since no location seems to be available on Friday night anymore. We’ve also had a very small number of attendees on the Saturday sessions at the CherryValley Public Library.

Please take a second and vote in the poll I’ve posted on the site.  Look forwarding to seeing the results!

 Posted by sam at 11:50 am

September LUG Meeting

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Sep 162011
 

Hey everyone! We are still trying to obtain a nice solidly consistent location and time to conduct our LUG meetings. For the time being we will continue to meet at the Cherry Valley Library. Just a reminder that we have a meeting on Saturday, September 17th at the Cherry Valley Library @ 10:30 am – 2:30pm. The meeting will occur at the meeting room inside the library to the left of the information desk.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

 Posted by sam at 7:29 pm

Google+ Invites

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Jul 132011
 

I know many of you may not be getting the LUG news from the listserv. If that’s the case then you probably haven’t been aware that I have been handing out Google+ Invitations for any members that express an interest during  the last week. If you are interested in playing around with Google’s new service please let me know and I will happily send you and invite. You can also contact me with any questions!

 Posted by sam at 12:35 pm

June Meeting Location Change

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Jun 162011
 

Tracy Henness has come through for us this month with a temporary  meeting location. It will require a bit of a drive to Beloit, but this is hopefully going to be a temporary change until we can find a location closer to Rockford.

Thanks again to Tracy for arranging this last minute change  for us!!!  Here is his description of the new  location: I arranged for the lobby of Family Worship Center in Beloit to be available Friday night.  This is located at 1021 Cranston Rd, Beloit, WI.  Free public wifi is available, an a big-screen tv with VGA port available.  Someone would just have to supply a VGA cable (15-pin HDB) 8 ft. or so.

The Google map below renders properly in Chrome, but seems to have issues in other browsers. If you can’t see the  map below please go to the following link: Family Worship Center

 Posted by sam at 12:01 pm

RRLug to Change Meeting Venue!!!

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Jun 072011
 

As some of you know I am no longer working at Rockford College. The end result is that without College/Professor sponsorship we are going to be changing our meeting venue. Sadly, after 13 years, approximately 156 meetings and after bringing close to 2340 Linux enthusiasts  on campus to share and learn Linux and Open Source,  we are moving. The last meeting of the Rock River Linux Users Group to be held on the Rockford College campus,  was  May 2011 !

Now I Need Your Help!!!

I am  looking for a new venue for the RRLug meetings. If anyone knows of any location that can accommodate a group of between 15-25 people, and ideally  do so at no-cost please contact me with the information as soon as possible!

 Posted by sam at 12:39 am

May Meeting Highlights

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Jun 072011
 

We had 16 members attend the May meeting. We met at the usual 6:30pm meeting time. Sam Williams conducted the meeting and demonstrated the new Unity user interface for Ubuntu 11.04. We had a general walk through of the basic components of the environment. During the second half of the meeting Sam explained some of the lesser known methods for altering and configuring Unity’s behavior. With a name like Unity there is a bit of confusion and lack of general acceptance on the part of the Linux community. The comments from the group were no different. There were some members that might consider using the new environment, but the majority said they had rather wait and see if Canonical might change its mind on some of the Unity design decisions or on the possible inclusion of the older style Gnome UI. All in all, its a pretty controversial  piece of code. In general, the presentations went well and there was lots of questions and user-feedback!

 Posted by sam at 12:18 am
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