MELUG North
MELUG North, founded in April of 1999, is the northern chapter of
MELUG, the Maine Linux User's Group.
We are a small group, open to the public,
of both hobbyists and professionals, hard core Unix users and newbies.
Feel free to drop in no matter what your experience,
and don't let the hardcore people scare you!
Most group activity happens on our
social network,
thanks to Ning.
We're meeting on
Monday, October 22, 2007
starting at
5:30 P.M. and going until at least 7:00
(feel free to come late if you have to)
at
PC/Mac Computer Techs
thanks to Mitch and Mitch Sowa.
They're at
88 Hammond Street, Bangor,
right downtown.
There is free (since we meet in the evening) parking
in the
lot on the corner of Hammond and Columbia Street.
After parking,
go in the door between The Courtyard Grille and Bangor Wine and Cheese
and go straight back.
You'll run into the doors
which are angled slightly left
and have a set of steps going down immediately inside.
Information about mailinglists
and the benefits of MELUG North membership
are on the Resources Page.
We have the O'Reilly Newsletter online,
as well as a number of Book Reviews.
If you have any other questions,
feel free to email
the mailing list.
You can also reach Seth at
north@melug.org,
but as in all such cases,
the list is much more likely to be able to help you.
News
September, 2007
Membership on the social network
is slowly increasing and so is activity.
If you're interested in meetings,
there's a thread there on the subject and it needs your help.
May, 2007
As a result of observation at the April meeting
that limitations of time and place are keeping
a large number of potential Melug North regulars and would be members
separated from the value of the group,
we're using Ning
to try the social networking thing.
Our network is at
melugnorth.ning.com.
Instead of (or in addition to) putting our content in
presentations and discussions at meetings
that compete for prime social time slots,
we're trying putting it here,
creating a body of interaction that demonstrates value to potential members
and can be accessed at individual member's convenience.
I (Seth) will try to push something like content out periodically
and you're encouraged to do the same.
Since we're working with web log posts
which don't have to fill a given length time slot
and can be edited (if only to include pointers) over time,
even short items that don't cover an entire subject are useful.
January, 2007
New O'Reilly Newsletter up.
This month's meeting included surprise coverage
of a few useful Firefox extensions and
some hints on Firefox chrome styling via userChrome.css.
As announced, the main coverage was of the Atom Feed specification.
March, 2006
Alvah contributed a review of "The Art
of Assembly Language" some time ago and Seth finally put it online.
Thanks Alvah!
We also have a new installment of the O'Reilly
Newsletter posted,
and the website has a new look!
August, 2005
August's Melug North meeting was a great success.
Greg Jeffery
was with us again so there was plenty of discussion of medical imaging
including the DICOM image file format.
Also,
Seth reported that Linus has handed git maintainence over to Junio C Hamano,
and Robin introduced us to
bing(8),
a tool for measuring the bandwidth and latency of a remote point-to-point link.
