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Subversion Talk

Posted by on October 19, 2008 No comments

Come make sure you don’t ever lose important code again! Track your changes! Work easily with friends! Be Awesome and Hip! Come learn about Subversion, aka SVN, and other types of version control!

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

CPLUG + FYM LAN Party

Posted by on October 7, 2008 3 comments

So we’re helping out ACM with their LAN party this weekend, mainly because they’d be lost without us. So come be apart of team Penguin as we mop the floor with those “professional club” floozies.

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

Power of Unix

Posted by on October 5, 2008 No comments

Another talk this Monday, this will be going over some advanced command line tools and other interesting topics.

When: 7pm Monday October 6th

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

Hope to see you there.

/Nat

FYM this Saturday

Posted by on October 1, 2008 No comments

Do you want Linux installed on the machine of your choice for free? Do you want to hang with awesome people? Do you need an excuse to eat large amounts of pizza? If you even considered answering yes to any of those questions, then come to the CPLUG Free Your Machine this weekend.

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

Intro To Unix This Thursday!

Posted by on September 23, 2008 No comments

Hey there Cal Poly-ites,

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

CPLUG’s Week of Welcome Events ’08

Posted by on September 10, 2008 No comments

WOW starts in about a week, and the Execboard is planning on having strong presence for several events that week. However, we can’t do everything ourselves, so we need help for the following events. Any help (even if just for preparation or set up / tear down) is greatly appreciated. Let’s show the freshmen that Linux nerds know how to represent (stabs self for such an awful phrase).

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

Holistic Security Talk

Posted by on June 5, 2008 No comments

There will be a talk on system security tonight, June 5th, at 5pm to 7pm in 22-315 14-301

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!

RSA Talk

Posted by on May 29, 2008 No comments

Tonight in 22-315 at 5pm by Dr. Staley.

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.

Spring Qtr Events

Posted by on April 16, 2008 No comments

Hey there CPLUG Members, We’ve got some great events coming down the pipe, so It’s time for a big signal burst.

4/19 – Open House
That’s right folks, this Saturday CPLUG will be out in force. We will have two booths, one outside the CSL and one near Eng. IV. Our team at the CSL will be giving tours of the CSC Machine room and doing other nerdy stuff. Our Sun Bound booth will have general assortment of t-shirts for sale, pasty nerds roasting in what will probably be their first time outside in weeks, and lots of machines running everything from Gentoo to Slackware. Come stop by, bug us, pick the minds of your current execboard, and talk to those who want to take our jobs next year.

4/26 – FYM 33
As every quarter, we will be hosting Free Your Machine in the Networks Lab (Bldg 22 Room 124) starting at 10AM. Come get your machine freed and filled with penguiny goodness. If you already have Linux come by and enjoy the nerddom. There will be Pizza.

5/6 – Bash Scripting Talk of Doom Death (Tentative, but appropriate, title)
Josh, aka SillyG, aka President of CPLUG, will be giving a talk on BASH scripting Tuesday May 13th at 7pm in a room to be determined. A lot of us have been waiting for this to happen, so come on by and learn a thing or two.

Till then,
/Nat

Update: Check our facebook group (cplug) for a facebook event, and the room number.

Urban’s Fun Hour

Posted by on February 27, 2008 No comments

Come on down to building 14 room 301 tonight(Wednesday 2/27/08) at 7pm for what has been heralded as an unofficial meeting. Basically people are getting together and talking. There might be cake, there might be video games, but there will definitely be Linux.