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Welcome To Ubuntu in Maryland! May 20th

Please join the Ubuntu Maryland Local Community team for our meeting May 20th 7pm at the Howard County Library Central Branch.

This month’s meeting will feature a presentation entitled “Welcome to Ubuntu”. This is an introductory level talk to welcome new users into the Ubuntu world.

With the latest Ubuntu release, Lucid Lynx, we have a new long term support version of the operating system. Now is a great time to learn the advantages of running a Linux distribution. If you’ve had questions about using Ubuntu and wondering if you can do it (which you can, sorry to spoil the talk:)) join us!

We will have a Q&A session afterwards and all that attend will receive a free Ubuntu Lucid Lynx CD!

See the wiki for details and a flyer you can hand out to your friends and post at your favorite community spot, coffee shop, school bulletin board… you get the idea!

CALUG May 12th – Mackenzie Morgan

Please join the Columbia Area Linux Users Group this Wednesday from 6:30-9pm where we will welcome Mackenzie Morgan from the Kubuntu (and other *ubuntu verse fame) where she will be discussing the Ubuntu Development Processes! This will provide a developers perspective on contributing to the Ubuntu distribution that many of us use and enjoy!

We will once again be enjoying pizza and soda provided by Praxis Engineering and should arrive about 6:30pm.

Additionally we will have Ubuntu Lucid Lynx CDs to hand out. This is the latest long term support release from Ubuntu, so get them while they are fresh!

As normal we are meeting at the Columbia, MD offices of Tenable Network Security. The address is 7063 Columbia Gateway Drive Suite 100 Columbia, MD 21046[3,4]. The building is easily identified by the Nessus eye keeping watch from the side of the building. Please enter at the back patio door near the blue tables.

Maryland Lucid Release Party May 1

Join the Ubuntu Maryland Team for the release of Ubuntu’s next LTS release the Lucid Lynx!

We will be gathering for lunch at Fuddrucker’s in Columbia, MD this Saturday May 1 from 12pm until 2ish. As normal we will be offering to create LiveUSB disks (if you bring a 1GB or larger thumb drive) and have a demo machine or two running the latest and greatest Ubuntu or Kubuntu release. If you would like a CD please drop me an email as we will only be burning them by advance request this time around.

If you intend to join us it would be nice if you would sign up so we can get an approximate head count to get a large enough area in the restaurant.

Daniel T Chen Live In Person April 14th At CALug

I am happy to announce that we have a speaker for CALug‘s April 14th meeting. Daniel T Chen has volunteered to give a talk for us entitled “Making Ubuntu Audio Not Suck”

Summary: As the Ubuntu desktop matures in 10.04 LTS (“Lucid Lynx”), bugs are being squashed across the entire software stack. The presenter will summarize continuous efforts to work around commonly broken sound hardware and to fix outstanding audio bugs in high-profile applications.

Bio: Daniel T Chen is a community Ubuntu core developer who has gained and lost grey hairs fighting the ALSA and PulseAudio backlashes.

So be sure to join us on Wednesday, April 14th from 6:30-9:00pm for this great talk! We will be enjoying pizza and soda provided by Praxis
Engineering
from 6:30-7ish and Dan will take the spotlight about 7. As normal we will be meeting at the Columbia, MD offices of Tenable
Network Security
. The address is:

7063 Columbia Gateway Drive Suite 100
Columbia, MD 21046

Enter at the back patio with the blue tables. Look for the building with the Nessus eye watching out for you!

CALug March 10th With Justin Kirby

Don’t forget if you’re in the Columbia, MD area March 10th and want to learn about contributing to the KDE project in a non-technical manner come and join us for the Columbia Area Linux Users Group meeting!

Justin will be presenting his talk “Making the leap from KDE user to contributor”. Justin will discuss simple ways for KDE users to become contributors, even without knowing a thing about developing code. His talk will provide specific details about various teams that exist within KDE, what you can do to help them out, and who to talk to if you have questions.

Justin Kirby is an active contributor to the KDE Promo team. He has been a user of KDE for about 3 years but more recently got actively involved in giving back to the community in July of 2009. You can learn more about the KDE Promo team on their wiki.

We will be meeting at the Columbia, MD offices of Tenable Network Security from 6:30-9pm. From 6:30-7 we’ll be enjoying pizza and soda provided by Praxis Engineering. The entrance is at the back patio with the blue tables.

February CALug Canceled – KDE Release Party is On!

Hi Everybody,

Due to the snow conditions we are canceling the February CALug meeting.

I want to thank Jonathan Riddell for volunteering to give a talk to our group. Justin Kirby has agreed to come to our March meeting and give his talk to us at that time.

That being said, the KDE 4.4 release party scheduled for Fuddruckers in Columbia, MD on Friday is still on. Jonathan is planning to give his talk (without slides) and a Q&A at this event! So if you were looking forward to hearing what he has to say drop by, dine with us and hopefully learn something useful for desert!

* My attendance Friday evening is dependant on seeing a plow between now and then on the road outside…

Feb 10 CALug Canceled

For reasons that are obvious to most around here the CALug meeting for tonight, February 10, is not going to happen.

I’ll be getting in touch with Justin and Jonathan to find out if they are available to make a rare Thursday appearance. If they are willing we will make the decision Thursday morning pending conditions in the area.

Keep up with any and all the methods I outlined previously for updates.

Don’t forget the KDE release party happening Friday the 12th at Fuddruckers in Columbia, MD!

Remember to lift with the knees, not the back!

CALug Snow Plans For Feb 10th Meeting

It looks like we’re in for more snow this Tuesday night into Wednesday. If we get what is expected the scheduled CALug meeting with Jonathan Riddell and Justin Kirby will be postponed until Thursday at best and canceled at worst. There are several moving parts right now that need to be coordinated before the final determination is made.

So keep an eye out here, on the CALug mailing list, my identica account, the CALug identica group and/or my twitter account. Those last three will be the same message across them all so pick your favorite (Hint: The Identica site runs Free AGPL software). The CALug website will also be updated but may be a bit behind the announcements I make via my feeds.

Also don’t forget that the local KDE release party will be at Fuddruckers in Columbia, MD on Friday the 12th. With luck the snow will be gone by then!

Correction- Feb 10 CALug with Riddell and Kirby

It was pointed out to me that my last post contained an error in the date. The next CALug meeting is Wednesday February 10th. NOT the 11th as was in the previous post. The corrected post follows:

Hi Everyone!

This coming Wednesday, February 10th is the next Columbia Area Linux Users Group meeting in Columbia, MD at the offices of Tenable Network Security.

Jonathan Riddell will be opening with his talk entitled “Kubuntu Community and Technology”. He will talk about the Linux distribution Kubuntu who makes it and the tools used.

Jonathan works for Canonical and started Kubuntu five years ago.

As long as Jonathan keeps to his contract and doesn’t do his Leno impression he’ll turn over speaker responsibilities to Justin Kirby*.

Justin will be presenting his talk “Making the leap from KDE user to contributor”. Justin will discuss simple ways for KDE users to become contributors, even without knowing a thing about developing code. His talk will provide specific details about various teams that exist within KDE, what you can do to help them out, and who to talk to if you have questions.

Justin Kirby is an active contributor to the KDE Promo team. He has been a user of KDE for about 3 years but more recently got actively involved in giving back to the community in July of 2009. You can learn more about the KDE Promo team on their wiki.

So join us at the Tenable offices at 6:30pm for pizza, wings and soda supplied by Praxis Engineering followed by the talks starting at 7pm.

* After minutes of negotiation with Justin’s agent I was able to secure a return appearance at a later date should Jonathan decide the evening belongs to him alone.

CALug Feb 11 Feat. Riddell and Kirby

Hi Everyone!

This coming Wednesday, February 11th is the next Columbia Area Linux Users Group meeting in Columbia, MD at the offices of Tenable Network Security.

Jonathan Riddell will be opening with his talk entitled “Kubuntu Community and Technology”. He will talk about the Linux distribution Kubuntu who makes it and the tools used.

Jonathan works for Canonical and started Kubuntu five years ago.

As long as Jonathan keeps to his contract and doesn’t do his Leno impression he’ll turn over speaker responsibilities to Justin Kirby*.

Justin will be presenting his talk “Making the leap from KDE user to contributor”. Justin will discuss simple ways for KDE users to become contributors, even without knowing a thing about developing code. His talk will provide specific details about various teams that exist within KDE, what you can do to help them out, and who to talk to if you have questions.

Justin Kirby is an active contributor to the KDE Promo team. He has been a user of KDE for about 3 years but more recently got actively involved in giving back to the community in July of 2009. You can learn more about the KDE Promo team on their wiki.

So join us at the Tenable offices at 6:30pm for pizza, wings and soda supplied by Praxis Engineering followed by the talks starting at 7pm.

* After minutes of negotiation with Justin’s agent I was able to secure a return appearance at a later date should Jonathan decide the evening belongs to him alone.