[SlugLUG] Anyone home?

[Will Crawford]

I'm transferring in to UCSC for the fall quarter as a junior (hopefully, 
anyway; transcript has yet to be evaluated). SlugLUG caught my eye in 
the literature I've received (quite a feat, considering the volume of 
mail I've received - I thought we were in the age of the internet now?) 
so I've finally looked it up. The archive shows very little activity 
(last post in 2008?). Are there any active members still? Similarly, any 
active /student /members? I'd be interested in meeting up with folks 
come fall quarter.

A little bit about me and my linux usage... the first incarnation of my 
server ran FreeBSD. For some reason or another, I migrated to CentOS, 
and a week or two ago I moved to Ubuntu Jaunty; I'm hosted over at 
prgmr.com, where I'm employed. apt-get seems to have a number of nifty 
little features that I didn't know yum was missing, and already I 
appreciate them immensely. (Automatically asking for necessary 
configuration stuff, like the MySQL root password, is nice... and 
apt-get autoremove keeps my hard drive healthy.)

Speaking of employment, it would be nifty to get a job on campus in the 
fall. I have considerably more tech skill than the average college 
student (you be the judge of how much; see my resume at prgmr.com/~will 
). Is the UC job system basically my only option, or is there another 
way to find interesting employment opportunities? (i.e. cool professors 
or research teams or staff members I might talk to.)

Otherwise, if anyone has wisdom to share on slimming down Ubuntu (or 
hardening it) I'd be more than happy to listen; right now my stack 
consists of MySQL and PHP for wordpress, lighttpd + django for 
tinkering. Eventually, I think I'll put mail back on the server 
(probably postfix, maybe lamson?).

-Will Crawford