Happy Holidays all. Good Luck on Finals.

Cya in the new year.

/Nat

Coming soon to the Cal Poly Computer Science Department, from the people who brought you the cult classic “Linux for Newbs” and the Broadway hit “Lone Single Man presenting SVN” comes another technical talk that has all the ladies talking, “Man with Hat juggling Camels teaches you Perl”!

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.

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

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

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

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

We’re going crazy this Fall with talks left and right. Here is a tentative list of our upcoming events:

Note that these dates and times are tentative to change. Crossed out events have already happened.

• Intro to Unix – Thursday 9/25 14-301 @ 7pm
  
• Free Your Machine – 10/4 @ 10am – 2pm 20-124
• Power of Unix – Monday after FYM -  10/6 14-31
• CPLUG + ACM LAN Party 10/11 7pm 14-301
• Subversion – 10/20 7pm 14-301
  
• Intro to Perl – 11/3 7pm 14-301
• Gnome-ify Me! – 11/17 7pm 14-301

Slides for past talks will be available as the speakers send them to me.

/Nat

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