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Meeting Notes

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April 2025 Meeting

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• AUR and yay - Patrick TenHoopen

May 2019 Meeting Topics

• Bash Scripting Part 1 - Patrick TenHoopen

September 2017 Meeting Topics

• System Resource Monitoring Tools - Patrick TenHoopen

August 2017 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

July 2017 Meeting Topics

• Astronomy Software - Patrick TenHoopen

June 2017 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

May 2017 Meeting Topics

• Mycroft Core - Patrick TenHoopen

April 2017 Meeting Topics

• Intro to Wireshark - Patrick TenHoopen

March 2017 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

February 2017 Meeting Topics

• Philosophy of Free - Patrick TenHoopen

January 2017 Meeting Topics

• PowerShell on Linux - Patrick TenHoopen

December 2016 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

November 2016 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

October 2016 Meeting Topics

• General technology discussion

September 2016 Meeting Topics

• Collection Software - Patrick TenHoopen

August 2016 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

July 2016 Meeting Topics

• Rootkits Revisited - Patrick TenHoopen

June 2016 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

May 2016 Meeting Topics

• Inkscape

April 2016 Meeting Topics

• openELEC - Patrick TenHoopen

March 2016 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

February 2016 Meeting Topics

• Password management with KeePass - Patrick TenHoopen

January 2016 Meeting Topics

• Linux Desktop Security Basics - Patrick TenHoopen

December 2015 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

November 2015 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

October 2015 Meeting Topics

• Fedora 23 - Patrick TenHoopen
• openSUSE Leap - Patrick TenHoopen
• syncthing - Patrick TenHoopen

September 2015 Meeting Topics

• calibre - Patrick TenHoopen

August 2015 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

July 2015 Meeting Topics

• Nagios, pnp4Nagios, and NConf - Patrick TenHoopen

June 2015 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

May 2015 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

April 2015 Meeting Topics

• ddrescue - Patrick TenHoopen

March 2015 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

February 2015 Meeting Topics

• OpenMediaVault - Jared Swets

January 2015 Meeting Topics

• Intro to Tomb - Patrick TenHoopen

December 2014 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

November 2014 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

October 2014 Meeting Topics

• The code and slides from Ben Rousch's talk can be found at https://github.com/brousch/rpi_python_demo/tree/wmlug-2014-10-30, If anyone has questions, comments, or feedback for Ben, please feel free to contact him at brousch@gmail.com.

July 2014 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

June 2014 Meeting Topics

• Kali Linux - Patrick TenHoopen

May 2014 Meeting Topics

• TrueCrypt - Patrick TenHoopen

April 2014 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

March 2014 Meeting Topics

• OS Configuration Management and Brief Intro to Puppet and Chef - Patrick TenHoopen
• CFEngine and Ansible Overview - Steven Miller

February 2014 Meeting Topics

• Open discussion on Linux news and technology

January 2014 Meeting Topics

• KDE Features Demo - Patrick TenHoopen

December 2013 Meeting Topics

• Demo of Linux Mint 16 "Petra" - Tad Gilliam
• Demo of openSUSE 13.1 - Patrick TenHoopen
• Keeping your devices safe - Douglas Rehfeldt

November 2013 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

October 2013 Meeting Topics

• Demo of the Cr OS Linux distribution - Patrick TenHoopen
• OUYA Hands-On - Patrick TenHoopen

September 2013 Meeting Topics

• Demos of Debian based distributions, SolydX and SolydK - Patrick TenHoopen

August 2013 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

July 2013 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

June 2013 Meeting Topics

• WMLUG Social and Open Discussion Night at Schmohz Brewery

May 2013 Meeting Topics

• FreeNAS 8.3.1 - Jared Swets
• Intro to DOSBox - Patrick TenHoopen

April 2013 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

March 2013 Meeting Topics

• openSUSE 12.3 demo - Patrick TenHoopen
• Intro to systemd - Patrick TenHoopen

February 2013 Meeting Topics

• WMLUG Social and Open Discussion Night at Schmohz Brewery

January 2013 Meeting Topics

• NFS server setup - Josh Soehnlein
• Zorin OS demo - Patrick TenHoopen

December 2012 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held due to holidays

November 2012 Meeting Topics

• Installing Raspberry Pi - Josh Soehnlein

January 2012 Meeting Topics

• xdotool - Patrick TenHoopen

December 2011 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held due to holidays

November 2011 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held due to holiday

October 2011 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held

September 2011 Meeting Topics

• ChromeOS - Ben Rousch

August 2011 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held due to GRBarCamp

July 2011 Meeting Topics

• SDFS: An Open Source Deduplicating Filesystem - Adam Williams

June 2011 Meeting Topics

• Machine Vision presentation by Nate Oostendorp

May 2011 Meeting Topics

• Adam Williams presented on Gnome 3 and OpenOffice.org

April 2011 Meeting Topics

• Ben Rousch demoed Ubuntu 11.04

March 2011 Meeting Topics

• Intro to Gentoo by Kevin McCarthy

February 2011 Meeting Topics

• Sabayon 5.5 demo - Pat TenHoopen
• Preparing high-quality resumes with XeLaTeX - John Harig
• Ampache music streaming server - Jared Swets
• Proxmox KVM/OpenVZ frontend - Jared Swets

January 2011 Meeting Topics

• Meego
• Ubuntu Unity
• JoliCloud
• Monit
• Subsonic

January 2010 - December 2010 meeting topics coming soon!

December 2009 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held due to holidays

November 2009 Meeting Topics

• openSUSE 11.2
• Fedora 12
• Mandriva Linux 2010
• Distro Demo Presentation (PDF)
• Phoronix Test Suite
• Phoronix Test Suite 2.2 Presentation (PDF)

• Download Meeting Notes (PDF)

October 2009 Meeting Topics

• Ubuntu 9.10 Release Party
• Ubuntu 9.10 - Demoed by Ben Rousch
• Kubuntu Netbook Remix - Demoed by Jonathan Jesse

• Download Meeting Notes (PDF)

September 2009 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held due to Ohio Linux Fest

August 2009 Meeting Topics

• No meeting was held due to summer break

July 2009 Meeting Topics

• Distributed honeynets over VPN Presentation - Will McCammon (PDF)
• Rootkit Presentation - Pat TenHoopen (PDF)

June 2009 Meeting Topics

• Centralized Logging to a PostgreSQL Database - Adam Tauno Williams (PDF)
• JungleDisk - On-line data backup - Ben Rousch
• Cheese - Webcam photos and videos application - Ben Rousch
• Asus Eee PC - Ben Rousch

May 2009 Meeting Topics

• Intro to Pygame - Pat TenHoopen (PDF)
• Making Presentations with LaTeX - John Harig

• Meeting Picture - John Harig gives a presentation on LaTeX

April 2009 Meeting Topics

• Building a Cross-Platform GUI with GTK - Ben Rousch (PDF)
• MindTouch Deki Wiki - Steve Romanow

• Download Meeting Notes (PDF)
• PdftkGUI application source (ZIP)

• Meeting Picture - Steve Romanow gives his presentation on MindTouch Deki

March 2009 Meeting Topics

• Intro to PyGTK - PDF
• Intro to Mono

• Download Meeting Notes (PDF)
• Python File Statistics GTK Script
• Python File Statistics Glade File
• FileStats GTK Changes from non-GTK (PDF)

• Meeting Picture - Ben Rousch gives his presentation on Mono

February 2009 Meeting Topics

• Intro to Python 2 - PDF
• McDPF - Digital Picture Frame project
• XBMC - Media Center Distribution

• Download Meeting Notes (PDF)
• Python File Statistics Script

January 2009 Meeting Topics

• Intro to Python - PDF
• Phoronix Test Suite - PDF
• Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway
• Knoppix 6.0
• KDE 4.2 Released
• pfSense
• Avant Window Navigator

• Python example script

November - December 2008 Meeting Topics

• Meetings were not held

October 2008 Meeting Topics

• Folding@home
• Amahi Linux Home Server

• Download the PDF

September 2008 Meeting Topics

• Install Fest

May - August 2008 Meeting Topics

• Meetings were not held
• WMLUG Linux Commands Word Search - PDF

April 2008 Meeting Topics

• Bash Scripting Part 5
• VimOutliner
• Tremulous
• Linux Distro TimeLine
• Mozilla Prism
• Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
• Software Wars

• Bash Scripting Part 5 - PDF
• Bash Scripting Part 5 Demo Script

March 2008 Meeting Topics

• Bash Scripting Part 4 - PDF
• Bash Scripting Part 4 Demo Script

February 2008 Meeting Topics

• Krename
• KAlarm
• KDiff3
• The Chronicles of George

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January 2008 Meeting Topics

• Bash Scripting Part 3
• AstroMenace
• FreeOrion

• Bash Scripting Part 3 - PDF
• Bash Scripting Part 3 Demo Script

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December 2007 Meeting Topics

• Meeting was not held
• WMLUG Wordsearch 1 - PDF

November 2007 Meeting Topics

• Bash Scripting Part 2
• My MythTV Setup Experiences
• Geek gift ideas

• Bash Scripting Part 2 - PDF
• Bash Scripting Part 2 Demo Script
• My MythTV Setup - PDF

• Download the PDF

September/October 2007 Meeting Topics

• Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) release party
• Intro to bash scripting, part 1
• Live Linux gaming DVD
• Alien Arena
• openSUSE 10.3
• Intro to LaTex

• Bash Scripting Part 1 - PDF
• Bash Scripting Part 1 Demo Script

• Download the PDF

August 2007 Meeting Topics

• grdesktop
• Fixing grub
• System Rescue CD
• openSUSE 10.3 Beta 2
• Ohio Linux Fest
• Linux From Scratch

• Download the PDF

July 2007 Meeting Topics

• Meeting was not held

June 2007 Meeting Topics

• Personal Backup Appliance
• VMWare Player
• VirtualBox

May 2007 Meeting Topics

• Install fest of various distros to compare features, boot times, etc.

• On it's way

April 2007 Meeting Topics

• FreeNX

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March 2007 Meeting Topics

• Beryl demonstration
• Novell BrainShare videos
• Flash video capture

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January/February 2007 Meeting Topics

• Configuring X to use multibutton mice and multimedia keyboards
• LinEAK utility

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October 2006 Meeting Topics

• Backup utilities KBackup, KArchiver, Konserve, KDar, Magic Settings Wizard
• Xming X server for Windows

• Download the PDF

September 2006 Meeting Topics

• Utilities Krusader, Kleansweep, Hardinfo
• Games SuperTuxCart, ManiaDrive, Righteous!, Sauerbraten

• Download the PDF

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