We will discuss some useful programs such as gnome-do and other launcher programs, phatch, and other GUI programs to help making configuring your desktop easier.

Hope to see you there!
–
Jeannie Nguyen

When: November 3rd, 7pm 2008
Where: Cal Poly SLO Computer Science Building, 14-301

This presentation will be done by our very own President, Austin Hendrix, and will provide an introductory look into Perl, how to use it, and why all the cool kids have been using it since 1987.

We look forward to seeing you then!

Flyer Here.

/Nat

p.s. Don’t get the Camel references? Check out the wikipedia article.

Where: 14-301, Upstairs in the Computer Science building, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
When: Monday, October 20th 7pm 2008

This talk is applicable to all Computer Scientists, Software Engineers and Computer Engineers. If you don’t use Version Control, or don’t know what it is, you better be here for the sake of all that is good in the world.

Flyer:

/Nat

Where: Computer Science Building Bldg 14, Room 303

When: Saturday Oct. 11th 7PM - 10PM

Pizza, Soda, and good times provided! Just bring yourself! (FOOD NOT FREE - SORRY)

Flyer: http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~nwelch/files/posterlogos.png

When: 7pm Monday October 6th

Where: Computer Science Labs 14-301 (possibly 303 or 302)

Hope to see you there.

/Nat

When:  Saturday, Oct 4th from 10AM to 2PM
Where: Bldg 20, Room 124 (Cisco Networks Lab)

Please try to show up as early as possible, we will not be starting installs after 1pm.

Although not required, we would appreciate it if you sent an email to execboard at lists.cplug.org with the subject “Fall FYM” letting us know your name, and your computers processor, graphics card, and wireless card, ifyou plan on needing help with an install.

/Nat

This thursday, September 25th 2008, we will be giving a talk on how to navigate a Unix and or Linux system, like the ones in the Computer Science department labs. Here is the info from our announce list:

When: Thursday, Sep 25th @ 7PM
Where: Bldg 14, Room 301 (Upstairs in the CSC Building)

Are you taking your first class in the Computer Science Department? Do you want to learn a bit about the computers that you’ll be using for the rest of the quarter or Cal Poly career? Come to Intro to Unix to learn
the basics of Linux/Unix commandlines. CPLUG Veterans are welcome to come and answer questions and help out.

Flyer: http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~mgius/cplug/IntrotoUnixSpring08.pdf

Hope to see you guys there.
/Nat

SLO Bound - Tuesday Sep 16th 12-2:30PM

Freshmen will be walking the steets of San Luis Obispo going to various places of business. I’d like 6-7 people to give out 20 copies of our OpenCD with a flier telling them to visit our booth at the club fair and with the club web site on them. We’ll need help making the CD’s and fliers (probably Friday night or Saturday), and handing them out. You won’t have to be downtown all 2.5 hours, just long enough to hand out your CD’s, although I’d like to space out the people handing them out (2 every 30 minutes) to get a wide spread of discs. Volunteers requested for 30 minute shifts.

CSC Luncheon - Wednesday Sep 17th 11AM-1PM

CSC and SE majors will be introduced to their Faculty, and ACM usually speaks. I say if ACM is there, we should be too. I did this last year, spoke about 1 minutes on the club, and then sat down and talked with freshmen during lunch about the club, the campus, or whatever they wanted. I’d like 2 people to help me out  with this. There’s a free lunch in it for you if you want it.

WOW Block Party - Friday Sep 19th 4-7:30PM
Setup @ 3:00PM / Teardown @ 8:00PM (or maybe earlier)

Looking for people for 1hr+ shifts. Sit down, talk to freshmen about the club, hand out free stuff, good times for all. Bring a laptop if you can, especially if you’re running something cool (compiz fusion, any non-GNOME or KDE desktop, eeePC, OLPC, video production), although I don’t think we’re going to have power (don’t expect it). Bring a chair as well if you’d like to sit, no idea if we’ll have any provided.

Execboard can’t do this alone, please respond with the events/times you can help out so we can make this WOW a success.

Mark Gius
CPLUG Treasurer & Unofficial WOW Event Organizer

The first hour will go over the basics of holisitic security, and the second hour we will relocate to 14-301 to practice implementing said security and hacking into a machine with incomplete security.

This meeting is sponsored and given by Dr. Staley’s company CreateSpace.

The flyer is here. (in odt format…)

The talk has been moved to 14-301!

Yes it really is in the english bldg this time. In the first hour Staley will talk about the issues with RSA, how it’s used, and how to implement it. The second hour will contain a puzzle where the winner will receive a small prize.