[SlugLUG] Cabrillo College Linux User Group

Thu Nov 8 10:24:57 PST 2007

Hi Larry:

My name is Rohan and I am currently in charge of SlugLUG (though it has
been somewhat dormant for the past few months).

At present we are not chartered/registered with the University and
therefore have no funds to offer other than what we have in our
personal pockets.

SlugLUG has been mostly inactive for the past few months.  Last year we
had two small events the first being a speaker from Symantec coming to
talk about storage systems and an installfest which was moderately
attended.  

I would really like to bring some action back into SlugLUG; however,
the only events we seem to be able to organize are installfests because
they are easy to throw together, even at the last minute.

So currently all I can offer the Cabrillo College Linux Users Group is
a congratulations on your foundation and "no thanks."  However things
might change by February and I really hope they will.  Stay on the
SlugLUG mailing list Larry and watch our activity; if it picks up at
all you might want to ask us again around January.

Thanks,
Rohan Sheth

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:30:22 -0800
"Larry Cafiero" <larry.cafiero at gmail.com> wrote:

> SlugLUG folks --
> 
> Cabrillo College has formed a Linux Users Group, as outlined in the
> far-too-long e-mail below. It received its charter from the school
> yesterday (Wednesday 11/7) and the first "official" meeting is today
> ("official" only because previous meetings were organizational in
> nature). Details on today's meeting is in the second to the last
> paragraph.
> 
> Perhaps the main reason I am passing this on is because Cabrillo LUG
> is planning to ask Richard Stallman to speak on campus when he passes
> through California in February. As some of you know, RMS usually does
> a speaking tour through California in February and September, and we'd
> like to have him
> 
> If SlugLUG is interested, we can make this a joint engagement, which
> would entail splitting the costs. I can bring this up at our meeting
> today, but if someone from the organization can contact me to discuss
> this further (or let me know when you're meeting so I can talk to you
> about it as a group), that would be great -- even if it's to say "no
> thanks."
> 
> Larry Cafiero
> Treasurer/Organizer
> Cabrillo LUG
> 831-335-7303 (HeliOS Solutions West/Felton)
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero at gmail.com>
> Date: Nov 7, 2007 10:27 AM
> Subject: Cabrillo Linux User Group update
> 
> Hi, all --
> 
> First, thanks for showing an interest in the Cabrillo College Linux
> Users Group (Cabrillo LUG), and forgive me for the impersonality of a
> group e-mail. Plans are in the works for a mailing list and an IRC
> channel, which I'll get into later, so we can communicate more freely
> and efficiently.
> 
> Grab a cup of coffee since this is going to be a bit long-winded and I
> wouldn't want you to fall asleep.
> 
> At the formation meeting of Cabrillo LUG, it was decided that we would
> meet on the second Thursday of the month from 1-2 p.m. I know from
> personal experience that this does not work for a lot of "working
> students" who attend Cabrillo in the evening (raising hand here), but
> it was the best that those of us who attended the first meeting could
> agree upon. But this item will be open for discussion and can be
> amended for the Spring Term starting in February.
> 
> Why we're here: There is a need for establishing a student-based
> support network for dealing with campus computing issues. Our
> organization's role in fulfilling this need includes, but is not
> limited to, advising students on personal computing alternatives using
> the GNU/Linux operating system (Linux); providing information about
> Linux, and assisting in the installation of, and conversion to, Linux.
> 
> [You will find that the terms "GNU/Linux" and "Linux" are used
> interchangeably in this e-mail -- they both refer to the operating
> system commonly known as "Linux." However, without getting into
> semantics, I call it "GNU/Linux" because I believe GNU deserves
> mention when it comes to the operating system as a whole as outlined
> here: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html . But personally, I
> will respect and defend your right to call it "Linux" and I don't
> think it should be a contentious issue within the organization.]
> 
> The officers for Fall are: Samuel Klepfer, president; Theodore
> Goodman, vice president; Jon Colby, secretary; and Larry Cafiero,
> treasurer and ICC representative (yes, I have to attend the Student
> Senate meetings . . . ugh). Jim Griffin is our faculty advisor.
> 
> At the formation meeting, we also discussed a Web presence and
> establishing an IRC channel. Erica Sherwood will be handling the Web
> page design and we're pretty close to an answer on whether we are able
> to use space on one of Cabrillo's servers. In fact, the Web hosting
> issue could be resolved by our meeting tomorrow. As for the IRC
> channel, I am awaiting a confirmation from freenode.net on a channel.
> 
> Overall, the discussion still continues about how to assist in
> converting students at Cabrillo from Microsoft Windows (for a plethora
> of reasons, mostly around security and performance) and MacOS
> (primarily because of its built-in obsolescence) to the wide variety
> of GNU/Linux distributions, or "distros," as the operating systems are
> called.
> 
> As an aside, Cabrillo LUG is a distro-independent organization,
> meaning that we do not favor one particular distro over another. All
> of us probably use different distros -- I use Debian, Fedora and
> Xubuntu on various machines I have -- and the main purpose again is
> outlined above in the "Why We're Here" paragraph in a distro
> non-specific way.  Having a group of people with a wide range of
> experience with different distros, if nothing else, makes this
> organization more valuable to the students at Cabrillo.
> 
> An agenda for Thursday's meeting will include a discussion of meeting
> days/times, as well as holding an installfest early in the new year --
> perhaps January or February 2008 -- as well as plans to bring the Free
> Software Foundation's founder Dr. Richard Stallman to Cabrillo during
> his semi-annual speaking tour through California in February (he also
> comes to California in September). For those of you who might not know
> what an installfest is -- an installfest is where people can bring
> their computers (laptops and desktops) to the gathering and the LUG
> will help them install whatver distro of GNU/Linux someone might want
> to try. With over 350 active distros out there according to
> http://www.distrowatch.com,  it gives folks a LOT of choices.
> 
> [Another aside: The Silicon Valley LUG holds their monthly
> installfests on the third Saturday each month at Google in Mountain
> View. If anyone is interested, I will be going on the 17th -- maybe we
> can make it a field trip?]
> 
> If you are unable to make the meeting on Thursday, I will be sending
> out another e-mail with a report on what transpired. If you generally
> can't make the second Thursday at  in any month, send me an e-mail at
> larry.cafiero at gmail.com (although chances are I may have this info if
> you already signed up with a sign-up sheet, but e-mail me anyway).
> Until we get a mailing list going, I will be sending e-mail reports on
> Cabrillo LUG developments. If you don't wish to receive these
> missives, contact me to let me know and I will take you off the list.
> 
> No doubt I'm forgetting something -- if anyone else from the first
> meeting wants to weigh in, by all means do. Again, the meeting is
> Thursday 11/8 at 1 p.m. at Rm 2501 in the lower campus. I hope to see
> you there.
> 
> If you've gotten this far without falling asleep, thanks for staying
> awake.
> 
> Larry Cafiero
> Treasurer/ICC rep
> Cabrillo LUG
> 831-335-7303 (HeliOS Solutions West)
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