Portland Linux / Unix Group
Portland Linux / Unix Group
The Portland Linux/Unix Group (PLUG) is a group of enthusiasts dedicated to teaching and learning about Linux, Unix and related projects. There is no membership fee to join and we welcome people of all levels of experience. PLUG has met since 1994 and hosts monthly General and Advanced Topics presentations plus a hands-on support Clinic.
Between meetings, we converse on a number of mailing lists.
You can also follow PLUG on Twitter at twitter.com/pdxlinux
Our general meetings are held at 7:00 PM on the first Thursday of every month, unless the first Thursday falls on a major holiday. Our meetings are generally held in Room FAB 86-01 of The Fariborz Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science Building at Portland State University. This room is hidden away in the basement; but go into the Fariborz Maseeh College of Engineering building, go to down stairs to the basement and wonder around the halls and you will find it.
The Fariborz Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science Building (also nick named the New Engineering Building) is on SW 4th across from SW College Street. See location H-10 on the PSU campus map.
Many of us head to the Lucky Lab Northwest Beer Hall at 1945 NW Quimby Portland, Oregon after the meeting for refreshments and continued discussion.
Our next General meeting is:
May 2nd, 2013
Agenda:
7:00 - 7:30 Announcements
7:30 - 8:30 Presentation and Questions
9:00 - ... Beer
Who: Yshai Boussi
What: Confronting Depression
Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level)
When: Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 at 7pm
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom
In the wake of tragic national and local losses in the open source
community to depression, Yshai Boussi of Portland Family Counseling will
discuss all aspects of depression including signs and symptoms, origins,
solutions and treatments, how to help others if you're concerned that
they may be depressed. Yshai has family in the tech community and
insights into why we may have a different relationship with depression
than most communities.
Yshai has been practicing as a psychotherapist since 2003. Over the
years, he has worked with many different types of individuals, couples,
adolescents and families. He has seen how depression affects individuals
but also friends and family as well. He is a Licensed Professional
Counselor operating a private practice with his wife called Portland
Family Counseling. Our practice is in NW Portland.
http://portlandfamilycounseling.com
Many will head to the Lucky Lab NW after the meeting
The Lucky Lab Northwest Beer Hall
1945 NW Quimby
Portland, Oregon
Calagator Page: http://calagator.org/events/1250463907
We have a monthly talk about topics for advanced Linux users, which usually meets once a month every third Tuesday at 7:00PM
LOCATION: Free Geek
Community Technology Center, 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland
Our next Advanced Topics meeting is:
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 Who: Jacob Riddle What: The KURB Kernel/UseRspace Bridge for Linux Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland (Left Entrance) When: Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at 7pm Why: The pursuit of technology freedom Jacob Riddle will discuss the KURB (Kernel/UseRspace Bridge) project. The goal of KURB is a kernel independent driver subsystem for Linux. The talk will include the architecture of KURB, the reasons for KURB, and how to get involved. Jacob Riddle is in the Game Development program at Lane Community College. Prior to that he was a Nuclear Machinist Mate in the Navy. He as a passion for all things Computer Science with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence and kernel operations. Calagator Page: http://calagator.org/events/1250463770
PLUG volunteers hold a monthly clinic to help one and all with their Linux (and other *NIX) computer problems on the third Sunday of every month.
LOCATION: Free Geek Community Technology Center, 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland
NOTE: Free Geek is closed Sundays, and no one will be answering the phones. Please enter through the south door, next to the Thrift Store. We'll have a sign by the door.
PLUG has hosted some of the biggest names in the open source community and is always looking for future speakers. A great presentation involves nothing more than your passionately stating the obvious about a technology-related topic that isn't yet obvious to the rest of us. Linux/Unix topics are given priority but having predated most specialized groups in Portland, PLUG has long covered broader technology and community-related topics.
If you are interested in presenting at any of the PLUG monthly meetings, please e-mail a description of your talk, your contact information and your available dates to David Mandel and Michael Dexter: 503-789-8978
Visit the Calagator the most comprehensive and up-to-date index of Portland area tech events.
2013-04-04 Mozilla Socorro: an Open Source crash reporting system evolves
2013-03-19 flashrd+nsh OpenBSD Network Appliances
2013-03-07 Mike Rogoway from the Oregonian
2013-02-19 The CASH Music Project
2013-02-07 Open Source Medical Informatics
2013-01-15 Recoupling Computer Science and Computing
2013-01-03 Linux in Schools project: Past, Present, and Future
2012-12-18 Snow! Huddle at the Lucky Lab
2012-12-06 Bootstrapping an open source project community
2012-11-20 Linux Network Driver Development
2012-11-01 CUPS Unix Printing - Daniel Hedlund
2012-10-16 UnMeeting at the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne
2012-10-04 UEFI Secure Boot and Open Source. It's not a 'general war against
computation.' - Vincent Zimmer, Intel
2012-09-06 The Joy of LVM - Brian P. Martin, The Happiness of ZFS - Michael Dexter
2012-08-21 Vyatta
2012-08-02 OSCON Feedback and General Questions
2012-07-05 systemd - Intel
2012-06-19 Tech Interviews!
2012-06-07 The Ganeti Virtualization Management System
2012-05-15 Verilog Synthesis - Galen Seitz
2012-05-03 OpenBSD - Bryan Linton
2012-04-17 Round Table Discussion
2012-04-05 Asterisk, FreePBX and Trixbox
2012-03-20 Linux Containers (LXC) - Brian Martin
2012-03-01 OData Open Data and Interoperability - Microsoft
2012-02-21 FreeNAS 64-bit
2012-01-17 Hands-on FreeNAS
2012-01-05 The xkcd1k Eve Celebration
2011-11-03 Hands-on IPv6, Web Hosting with GitHub - Ted Mittelstaedt and Daniel Hedlund
2011-10-18 The Android Debug Bridge (Root your phone!)
2011-10-06 Arch Linux - Daniel Hedlund
2011-09-20 Roundtable: Web serving in the post-LAMP era
2011-08-04 Open Source in State Agencies
2011-07-19 IPv6 Networking Part 3 - Ted Mittelstaedt
2011-07-07 Rapid Discussions on Any Topic
2011-06-21 IPv6 Cont. - Ted Mittelstaedt
2011-06-02 Introduction to OpenEMR - Tony McCormick
2011-05-17 IPv6 Networking Part 2 - Ted Mittelstaedt
2011-05-05 Comments on the IPv6 Transition - Ted Mittelstaedt
2011-04-19 IPv6 Networking Part 1 - Ted Mittelstaedt
2011-04-07 Canceled to attend Richard Stallman talk
2011-03-15 Release your hardware hacker potential with gEDA
2011-03-03 Free Content and the Data Revolution
2011-02-15 BSD
2011-02-03 What is Open?
2011-01-18 Artificial Neural Networks: Principles and Applications
2011-01-06 Mini-presentations on variety of topics
2010-12-02 Open Source Desktop Publishing with Scribus - John Jason Jordan
2010-11-16 Artificial Neural Networks: Principles and Applications
2010-11-04 Forgerock - Alan Foster
2010-10-19 Ubuntu Release Engineering - Allison Randal
2010-10-07 Zentyal Linux Small Business Server
2010-09-21 The AIDE Tripwire Alternative
2010-09-02 Berkley DB
2010-08-05 Server Sky - Data Centers in Orbit
2010-07-01 Open Source Car Entertainment
2010-06-16 Perl 5 & 6 Gems - Paul Fenwick and Eric Wilhelm
2010-06-03 Puppet - An Introduction - Teyo
2010-05-19 DRBD & Pacemaker part II by Adam Gandelman - LinBIT
2010-05-06 How Linux Containers fit your cloud - Parallels
2010-04-21 What's new in Linux Wireless - Reinette Chatre - Intel
2010-04-01 Rapid Discussions on Any Topic
2010-03-17 What Went Wrong with My Disaster Recovery Plan - Brian Martin
2010-03-04 A Talk by Jeri Ellsworth
2010-02-17 OpenEmbedded - Scott Garman
2010-02-04 A Talk by Jeri Ellsworth (Rescheduled)
2010-01-20 Automated Failure Recovery/High Availability - Dwight Hubbard
2010-01-07 Drupal! What is it good for?
2009-12-16 DRDB HA Clustering on Commodity HW - LinBIT
2009-11-19 Git - Alan Olsen
2009-11-05 Unit Test Your Database!
2009-10-01 BSD Virtualization
2009-09-03 Crash Reporting: Mozilla's Open Source Solution - K Lars Lohn
2009-08-06 Virtualize vs Containerize
2009-07-15 Webslide Presentations That Don't Suck
2009-07-02 Rapid Discussions
2009-06-04 What is Linux Fund?
2009-05-07 Displaying HD Video Content with a PC
2009-04-02 Presentation by Bart Massey
2009-03-05 Fun with blktrace and seekwatcher
2009-02-05 Intro to Digital Forensics
2009-01-21 FreeTUIT - Codeless GUI Programming - Eric Wilhelm
2008-12-04 Some Random Thoughts on Open Source Philosophy
2008-11-19 OpenWrt, it's not just for Linksys Routers anymore
2008-11-06 LANs, iptables, routing, and more
2008-09-17 Perl: Indexing CPAN
2008-09-04 Building Open Source Communities
2008-08-20 Advanced Topics
2008-07-03 Stupid USB Tricks, reading magstripes, barcodes, 10-key pads, and keyboards
2008-06-18 IPv6 networking
2008-06-05 Open Source Unified Threat Management (UTM) - Dan Carrere
2008-03-19 Smalltalk - Randal Schwartz
2008-02-07 MetroFi: How Lame is It? - Russell Senior
2008-01-08 Rapid Discussions on Any Topic by Anyone & Everyone
2008-01-03 Either Mass Replication or Thin Clients
2007-10-15 Power Management Quality of Service (PM_QOS) - Intel
2007-10-04 Open Source Virtualization Xen and Multi-server / Cluster Management - Dan Carrere
2007-09-06 Comments on Starting and Running a Tech Business, especially Aboutus.org
2007-06-07 The Portland State University Aerospace Society's Linux Rocket
2006-06-19 The Eclipse on Linux Project Proposal
2005-10-06 HP Open Source Printing Activities
2005-03-16 Mozilla, the IDE (Internet Development Environment)
(Better archives to come)