Note: because of the Thanksgiving holiday and the dreaded "Black Friday" weekend, November's meeting will be moved to December instead.

Where:

University of Toledo, North Engineering building - Room 1026

Day:

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Time:

2:00 PM

Topic:

General Linux Q&A + Installfest

The December meeting will not feature a presentation, but instead will be a general Linux users get-together. Come and meet fellow Linux users from around the Toledo area! We will also be doing a small installfest, so if you have a laptop or desktop you'd like to install Linux onto, BYOM (bring your own machine.)

We have a few people who will be helping with installs, but we are looking for a few more, so if you'd like to help out, please let us know. Below is the list of distributions and who will be handling them:

Ubuntu: Scott Vargovich, Steven Cook
Debian: Scott Vargovich
Mint: Scott Vargovich, Steven Cook
Fedora: James Malleroy
Slackware: Jeremiah Holt
Gentoo: Chris Volny
DSL: Abdulmajed Dakkak

Linux distribution CDs will also be provided.

The meeting wasn't all that well attended because we didn't get flyers out.  We had 2 newbies show up.  One who had a pretty cool looking micro-PC that he wanted to install Linux on, but he needed a different storage card for it.  He had it on order, but hadn't received it yet.  I (your humble Secretary) am going to help him put DSL on it after said card is delivered.  The other one came with a laptop with FreeBSD on it.  He got some help with an X problem that had been plaguing him.  A couple of the CDs were taken.  James Helton (openSUSE guy) brought 10 CDs with pdf files of different Linux books on them and handed a few of them out.  I have some left over.  Anybody who wants them, please contact me off the list.  We had a great geek-out session and Craig Seeley went into Math Teacher mode with a few of us when he found an differential equation on the white board that was poorly solved - and showed me I need to brush up on my Calculus.  5 of us - including Andy Yang - one of the newbies, went over to IPOH for dinner.  It was a great day of fun, fellowship and geeking out.  I personally had a great time - despite the lack of newbies showing up.

I would like to add a personal thank you to all of the installers that stepped forward to help out with the installfest.  I apologize that it wasn't more publicized.