This Saturday (November 17th) is the Linux User Group's 8th Installfest! If you (yes, you!) have ever wanted to try Linux on your computer, this weekend the LUG is helping you do just that. Get questions answered and get your computer working just the way you want (drivers and all!) with the help from your friendly college student.

You bring: a computer (the tower, desktop or laptop)
We bring: cables, monitors and smiling faces.
Everyone gets: Cool points for using Linux!

Want to help make this a success? Volunteer! We need people to offer support, walk people through installing Linux (a variety of distros, Ubuntu by default), greeters and more. Sign up next to what you'd like to help us do.

Who: The Community at large
What: InstallFest8, free help installing and using Linux
Where: Dearborn hall 401
When: Saturday, April 21st, 1pm-5pm
Why: Installing Linux is a good thing(tm)

Woo! It is finally here! The first LUG meeting of the year!

Feel free to come up and meet new people, catch up with returning luggers, and eat some pizza.

Also, we need to hold an election for officers tonight. Come on up if you think you have what it takes to make the LUG a better place(of if you just want a silly title).

WHO: You, me, and other people
WHAT: The first LUG of the year!
WHEN: 6pm, Tonight
WHERE: Dearborn 401 ... you know how we do
WHY: This is the first LUG of the year! Plus we have free pizza.

P.S. Feel free to bring a textbook and enjoy the studious atmosphere.
P.P.S. Bash bash programming competition tonight as well, led by Justin.

Cheers!

--Justin

Greetings,

The OSLUG website is finally back after being down for over a month now. I took the lug web server down after discovering that the OSEL website was compromised. The attacker was able to execute code as the apache user and there was no indication that they got root access but that is a small possibility so I shut down the system to be safe. Unfortunately I have been quite busy this summer and did not have much time to work on rebuilding the server until this past week.

I took the opportunity to redo the site a bit. The main site is now based on Drupal and Gallery instead of the hacked up mashup of my custom site engine (flonc) + Wordpress + Gallery + lots of other random bits and pieces. In the process I found out that someone had successfully injected into our existing news posts in Wordpress. Hopefully the new site will be a bit more manageable so it will be easier to keep the site up-to-date with security fixes.

The wiki is still MediaWiki but the authentication system has been changed. The LDAP server I previously used to glue authentication for the parts of the site together is gone and has been replaced by OpenID. If you would like to reclaim your old wiki account please send me an email (marineam _at_ engr.orst.edu) with your old account name and your openid account and I will tie the two together. The wiki is currently lacking it's theme but I'll fix that sometime soonish.

Sorry for the long down time. If anyone would like to help maintain the site I would greatly appreciate it.

--Mike

If there is one day you should decide to start using Linux, or want to
help someone else start using Linux, make it Saturday, April 21st! We
are hosting InstallFest7 up in the Penguin's Nest.

We need as much help as we can get for helping install and get
acquainted with Linux, so if you feel up to it, please sign up to
help. Spread the word to everyone you know, and lets make this the
biggest and most successful InstallFest ever!

InstallFest7

Who: The Community at large
What: InstallFest7, we help people get Linux installed on their machines
Where: Penguins Nest, Dearborn 401
When: Saturday, April 21st, 1pm-5pm
Why: Installing Linux is a good thing(tm)

To sign up to help, or to find out more info, please visit
http://lug.oregonstate.edu/wiki/InstallFest7.