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Category Archives: CALUG

What makes a good tutorial?

Recently I came across a Google+ discussion about a post that was in the tutorial section of a community. The problem was the post itself wasn’t, to many, a tutorial at all. It was more of a ‘look what I did’ post. Sure it described what it was, what it was used for, and the […]

Learn by Lecturing

Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. It seems that there should be a third option; Those who know, introduce others to the topic. As some readers know, I run the monthly meetings for the Columbia Area Linux Users Group located in Maryland. I want to share with you the most difficult part of my job, […]

Resolve To Talk To Your Group!

So I’ve been doing the whole reflecting on the last year and goal setting and planning for the next year thing. As part of the process I look at the schedules for the various groups that I am a part of and those that I run. In particular I want to talk about the Columbia […]

Talking About Enhancing The B&N Nook Color

On Thursday, May 19th I’ll be giving a talk to the Open Source Maryland group at the Howard County Library Central Branch from 7-9pm. Titled “Exploring the possibilities of the best tablet value on the market, the Nook Color”. The talk will be an introduction to the publicly available information about enhancing the Nook Color […]

Opensource Maryland Meeting April 21

Come and join the Opensource Maryland group for our monthly meeting this Thursday April 21 from 7-9pm at the Howard County Central Library. Our feature presentation this week will be given by Ron Swift. He will be giving an introductory talk on OS virtualization and some of its uses with VirtualBox. Following the presentation we will […]

Reminder — CALUG April 13th

Greetings Everyone! We will be welcoming David A. Lane, KG4GIY. He will be speaking on the topic of HAM radio and Linux applications, or lack thereof. So be sure to join us at the Columbia, MD offices of Tenable Network Security from 6:30-9pm. Enter at the back patio door near the blue tables. The Nessus eye logo is on […]

CALUG April 13 – David A Lane, KG4GIY

Greetings Everyone! It’s that time of the month again, time to announce our speaker for the April 13th Columbia Area Linux User Group meeting. We will be welcoming David A. Lane, KG4GIY. He will be speaking on the topic of HAM radio and Linux applications, or lack thereof. So be sure to join us at the Columbia, […]

Open Source MD March 17 – Update

This is a reminder that we will be meeting on Thursday, March 17 at 7:00pm at the Central branch of the Howard County library. We will have a presentation by Ed Covert on system security that will be geared to entry level open-source software users. This will be followed by an open discussion and a Q&A session. All […]

Open Source Maryland Meeting March 17

This is a reminder that we will be meeting on Thursday, March 17 at 7:00pm at the Central branch of the Howard County library. We will have a presentation on system security that will be geared to entry level open-source software users. This will be followed by an open discussion and a Q&A session. All of our meetings […]

Stepping Down As Ubuntu Maryland Leader

On March 4, 2007 I started the Ubuntu Maryland Local Community Team. Now on March 4, 2011 I’m announcing to the community at large that I’m stepping down as leader of the group I founded. This is a decision that has been coming for a while. Part of it is just the amount of time […]