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04/21/06 - There will be a meeting on April 21st at 5pm in Computer Science building room 2311.

03/29/06 - The next meeting will be on April 4th at 8pm in Computer Science building room 2311.

03/23/06 - LUGSB will be at ICON 25. The two events scheduled for us are 1) Free vs. Proprietary panel and 2) the anual Install Fest - back to back on Saturday March 25th starting at 6pm.

03/17/06 - We have a new URL: http://www.lugsb.cs.sunysb.edu.

03/14/06 - After a about a year of non-existance, LUGSB is coming back - and better than ever. The first meeting for this semester is scheduled for Friday, March 17 @ 5pm in Computer Science building room 2311.

02/15/05 - Welcome back everyone! We are in the process of reserving a room for the meetings (hopefully the same one that was used last semester) and thinking of different topics to be discussed throughout the semester (although the topics themselves will be up for discussion). When a date has been set for the first meeting it will be announced on the mailing list and on this website. Hope to see everyone there.

12/10/04 - On account of finals, I'd like to wish everyone good luck on their exams. Hope to see you all next semester!

11/30/04 - Due to administrative with Stony Brook Student Accounts, LUGSB has been largely inactive. However the club (as well as the website) are back in business. I apologize to anyone who has checked the website or sent any e-mail to the club's address. I've only recently been able to get access to both, which explains why the LUGSB site has not been updated since the beginning of the semester. By next semester things should be running smoothly. Meanwhile, keep checking the website for updates and sign up for the Mailing List.

4/27/04 - LUGSB's next meeting is this Thursday, April 29th @ 6:45pm in the Computer Science building room 2129. Charles (Chip) Wright will be giving a talk about all of the new features in the 2.6 Linux Kernel. Be sure and come down as this promises to be a very interesting talk.

4/13/04 - LUGSB's next meeting is this Thursday, April 15th @ 6:45pm in the Computer Science building room 2129. The topic of discussion will be Linux gaming. Native games, ports, and playing windows games on Linux will be discussed with demonstrations of WineX, Unreal Tournament 2004, and other Linux games.

4/1/04 - There is a meeting tonight, April 1st, at 6:45pm in the Computer Science building room 2129. Mark will be giving an introduction to Python. We'll also be holding nominations for the LUGSB officer positions. It'll be a lot of fun. Be sure and come down.

3/23/04 - LUGSB is hosting two events at the ICON Science Fiction Convention this year. The convention runs from March 26th-28th. We are conducting a panel titled, "The current state of Linux and Open Source Software." At this panel five of our members will be holding a group discussion concerning Linux, where it stands, and where it's going. The panel will be held Saturday evening at 5pm in the Old Chemistry building room 138. Immediately following the panel, we're holding an install-a-thon in the same room (Old Chem 138) from 6pm-9pm. So, if you'd like Linux installed on your computer, this is the best way. Bring your computer down and we'll help install it and set you up to the best of our abilities. Hope to see you all there.

3/16/04 - Our next meeting is Thursday, March 18th @ 6:45 pm in the Computer Science Building room 2129. We're having a Desktop Environment Extravaganza! Mark will be giving a demonstration of the upcoming Gnome 2.6, Dan Panzella will be giving a demo of KDE, and there'll be other demonstrations as well. Be sure to come down to this meeting and see what lies in store for the Linux desktop.

3/4/04 - Dan gave a great talk at our last meeting. We managed to do two installs at the meeting; one on a TabletPC and one on a PocketPC. We got a really good turn out as well, especially for mid-terms week

3/1/04 - Our next meeting is Thursday, March 4th @ 6:30pm in the Computer Science Building room 2129. Dan Panzella will be giving a talk about putting Linux on a PocketPC. We'll also be discussing our plans for ICON.

2/24/04 - The last meeting went really well. It was "Cool Stuff Day" and we all got to see a bunch of cool stuff. Pictures are available. The next meeting is March 4th.

2/12/04 - Our next meeting is this coming Thursday, February 19th @ 6:45pm in room 2129 of the Computer Science building. The title of the meeting is "Cool Stuff Day". The last meeting went fairly well. Some pictures are available.

2/2/04 - Our first meeting of the semester is Thursday, February 5th @ 6:45 pm in room 2129 of the Computer Science Building. Mark will be giving a talk about Public/Private Key Encryption and GnuPG. Everyone is welcome and urged to attend. See you all there.

1/28/04 - I'd like to welcome everyone back to school for the spring semester. I hope everyone had a great winter break. We're still ironing out when and where our meetings will be held this year. So, keep your eyes here for updates.

12/15/03 - The last meeting of the semester was a great success. I'd like to thank Adam Martin for giving a great talk and shedding light on all of the neat things that X11 can do. Good luck on your finals and have a great winter break. Keep your eyes on the website and the mailing list for news concerning Linux World which is January 21-23 at the Javits Center in New York City. If you plan on attending you can register here. It's free and a barrel of fun. So, register now!

12/02/03 - Our next meeting is Thursday, December 4th @ 6:30pm in the Computer Science building room 1211. Adam Martin is going to be giving a talk all about X Windows, the X11 protocol, and how it is used in a networked environment. We will have a local network set up to show some neat things about X11, so bring your laptop down if you like. The meeting will likely break down into just messing around with networking after his talk. A good time will be had by all.

11/06/03 - The screening of Revolution OS went really well. I'd like to thank everyone who was there for coming down. Pictures of the event are available.

11/03/03 - Our Revolution OS screening is this Thursday, November 6th @ 6:30pm in the SAC Ballroom B. This event will happen in place of our normally scheduled meeting, and our next normal meeting will be 11/20 at which we will be holding an install-fest. Come down to watch the movie, and be sure to bring all of your friends.

10/31/03 - Our mini-install-fest last meeting was a great success. We did 2 installs and helped one guy solve a few problems he was having. We also found a network connection that we can use. So, we'll now have a wired/wireless network that can actually get out to the internet at every meeting - woopie!! Expect pictures of the install-fest shortly.

10/26/03 - LUGSB's next meeting will be on October 30th @ 6:30pm in the CS building room 1211. We will be having a mini-install-fest, so if you want to get linux installed on your computer, bring it down to the meeting. If you need help getting your computer to the meeting, send Mark an email at MarkDrago@mail.com. We will also be finalizing our plans for screening Revolution OS. The screening will be held on Thursday, November 6th @ 6:30pm in the SAC Ballroom B.

10/15/03 - Our third meeting of the semester is this Thursday, October 16th at 6:30pm in the Computer Science Building room 1211. We'll be planning a few of our upcoming events including the showing of Revolution OS and an install-a-thon. Pictures from our last meeting have been posted.

9/30/03 - The second meeting of the semester will be held on Thursday, October 2nd, at 6:30pm in the Computer Science Building room 1211. The topic of the meeting is going to be 'Wireless Networking with Linux.' A wireless network will be available (802.11b / 802.11g), so if you have anything that can use it, be sure to bring it down. As usual, we'll have copies of Knoppix to hand out, as well as be able to help anyone wanting to install Linux.

9/19/03 - The first meeting of the fall semester was a great success. I would personally like to thank everyone who attended the meeting. We had 25 people in attendance, which was really great to see. Pictures from the Involvement Expo and from the first meeting are now up. We are planning on holding an install-a-thon next meeting (10/2/03), check here for updates.

9/12/03 - LUGSB's first meeting of the semester will be held on September 18th @ 6:30pm in room 1211 in the computer science building. Everyone is welcome to come!

9/7/03 - LUGSB would like to welcome everyone back to Stony Brook for the fall semester. We will be attending the 'Club and Organization Performance and Involvement Expo' on September 17th from 12-3 pm in the SAC Plaza. We have pictures of our table at last year's less boisterously named 'Student Involvement Fair'.

5/12/03 - Many updates have been done to the website (XHTML1.1, CSS) and the whole site is now table free, leaving all of the layout to CSS. Expect more changes over the next few months including RSS feeds, and places for member-written articles and reviews. I hope everyone has a great summer and I look forward to an eventful fall semester.

5/12/03 - Elections were held at our last meeting and those people mentioned in the previous post were elected to their respective positions. The positions will change on June 1st.

4/30/03 - A meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 7th, at 1:00pm in the Computer Science building room 1211. We will be holding elections for officers. Those who have been nominated are: Mark Drago for president, John Hover for vice president, Charles Wright for secretary, and Mike Graffam for treasurer. If anyone would like to make further nominations, they should be sent to the mailing list.

4/21/03 - A meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 23rd, at 1:00pm in the Computer Science building room 1211. Nominations for officer positions will be held.

4/21/03 - We are a member of the O'Reilly User Group Program. See ug.oreilly.com for more information.

4/16/03 - A Wiki has been added to the LUGSB Website. If you don't know what a wiki is, read this page about the WikiWikiWeb, or go straight to the Wiki.

4/8/03 - The next meeting will be held on Wednesday April 9th from 1:00 to 2:30 in the Computer Science Building room 1211. We will be coming up with ideas for upcoming events. This is also the place to bring any questions or curiosities that you have with Linux or free software.

4/5/03 - Pictures of the ICON install-fest have been added to the events page.

3/27/03 - LUGSB will be holding an install-a-thon at the ICON science fiction convention this weekend (3/28-3/30). Come one, come all to enjoy raffles, desktop linux demos, CD copies of distros, as well as installations. The install-a-thon is going to be held on Saturday night (3/29) in Harriman Hall room 104.

3/11/03 - The next meeting will be on Wednesday March 26th from 1:00 to 2:30 in the Computer Science Building room 1211. We will be discussing plans for the install-a-thon that will be held at the ICON Science Fiction Convention.

2/7/03 - Our next meeting will be on 2/12 in the computer science building room #1211 from 1:00-2:30. We'll be getting together to hang out, discuss current events in the linux/free software world, and think up ideas for future meetings. Come down and meet the members of lugsb.

2/1/03 - LUGSB will be present at the Student Involvement Fair in the SAC on Wednesday, February 5th from 12:00 to 3:00. We're asking those attending to bring any spare blank CDs that they may have so that we can hand out copies of knoppix (and others) to interested people. Come out!

1/23/03 - Our first meeting of the spring semester will be held on Wednesday, January 29th during campus lifetime (1:00 - 2:30) in room 1211 of the computer science building. A demonstration of playing DVDs on Linux will be given. All are welcome to attend.

12/29/02 - Long time no update. I hope everyone enjoys the winter break. We've got big plans for next semester.

11/23/02 - November 20th was the day that we had our first meeting. See the Meetings section for some minutes that I tried to remember 3 days after the meeting. :o)

11/18/02 - We are going to have our first meeting on Wednesday 11/20 @ 1:00 pm at Stony Brook University's Student Activites Center in room 312. We will talk about what it is our club is going to be for, and where it is headed. There will be CD copies of Knoppix handed out. A good time will be had by all.

11/5/02 - We are officially recognized as a club by the University. This gives us a bunch of privileges including the reservation of rooms and event advertising.

10/24/02 - I handed in the application for us to become a club. It turns out that the student activities office is going to be sending me something in the mail and once I receive it we can start holding meetings and all that jazz. Let's hope for a speedy delivery.

10/24/02 - I'm leaning towards holding our meetings every month on the fourth wednesday of that month during campus lifetime. I think this is the best time b/c I've only heard one complaint about campus lifetime from the members (there are 21 of us now). I chose the fourth wednesday of the month b/c lilug holds their meetings on the second tuesday of the month. This means that our meetings should happen approximately two weeks apart. This way we can all get our LUG fix twice as often without overdosing. :o) If there are any complaints about this time let me know now b/c it can still be changed.

10/10/02 - We've got a mailing list! Click here to subscribe.

10/5/02 - A few updates were made to the constitution. The new parts have been adapted from the LILUG constitution and the by-laws of Software in the Public Interest, Inc.

10/4/02 - We've straightened out all the positions of the officers. Please see the 'members' section to see who is where.

9/30/02 - I spoke with Prof. Zadok and he has agreed to be our faculty advisor. I am very excited. I think this is going to work out really well.

9/30/02 - I went ahead and wrote up a constitution. I tried to take out anything that has to do with a set membership. The idea is to make it easy to get things done. Let me know what you think. I want to hand it in to the Student Activities Office ASAP.

9/29/02 - I am going to speak with Prof. Zadok about being the faculty advisor for the club.

9/28/02 -I made up this preliminary flyer using OpenOffice.

9/25/02 - Prof Keitt responded and sent us the best of luck, but he can't be our advisor because he is now working at the University of Texas at Austin.

9/25/02 - I contacted Prof. Tim Keitt and asked if he would be our faculty advisor as he had showed interest in starting a lug on campus before.

9/24/02 - The announcement of the creation of LUGSB was sent to the SBCS Discussion mailing list.