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Nashville Linux Users Group

The purpose of the Nashville Linux Users Group (NLUG) is the promotion of, and contribution to, the computer operating system commonly known as Linux, both within the organisation and to the persons of the city of Nashville and its environs.

A Linux User Group is a private, generally non-profit or not-for-profit organization that provides support and/or education for Linux users. The term commonly refers to local groups that meet in person, but is also used to refer to online support groups that may have members spread over a very wide area and which do not organise, or which are not based around, physical meetings.

Location

• NLUG now meets in the MRB-III Class Room 1220, on the Vanderbilt University Campus.
  

• For those that may be using a GPS-enabled phone, the coordinates are lat=36.143372, lon=-86.800533.
  

• The meeting is at 6:00 PM on the second Tuesday of each month*.
  

• Parking is available (free during evening hours only) in the East Garage, at the corner of 21st Avenue South and Medical Center Drive, two blocks south of the meeting room.
  

• Do not park in the Nursing lot, however.
  

• Reference these Directions when planning your first visit.
  

• (Wireless SSID is "vummiv" and there is no password.)
  

• Immediately after the meeting, some members join for the Steering Committee Meeting, at a near-by restaurant. Everyone is invited to attend. Recently we have been going to Pizza Perfect in Hillsboro Village. 615-329-2757

Upcoming Meeting Details

Each month, we ask someone to present the ways they use Linux and Free Software in their life, often in particular to their career. We are scheduling upcoming speakers, so contact us if you are interested. On occasions when a presenter is not at hand, we will have a round table discussion. Members are encouraged to Recommend a Future Presenter, which may include yourself if you like, for unscheduled meetings.

Upcoming Events:

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - Monthly Meeting

• Presenter - Cynthia Langseth of Alltech Inc. (technical recruiter) will speak on How to get past the "gatekeeper" when applying for tech jobs.
  

Cynthia said, "Bring questions."


• Election of officers for the ensuing term, offices you can fight for are: President, VP, Secretary, Treasurer
  

All current officers have been nominated for re-election.


Howard White, President, Tom Bartkus, Vice-President, John Eldredge, Secretary, Andrew McElroy, Treasurer


• "Asleep at the Prompt" session has become a mainstay. Any suggestions?
  

• Additional sessions TBA. Please volunteer for a presentation! Email the NLUG list or a NLUG officer.

Recent Events:

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - Monthly Meeting

• Presenter Jerry Perkins
  

• Signup for presenting for the May 2013-April 2014 year
  

• Nominations for officers for the ensuing term, offices you can fight for are: President, VP, Secretary, Treasurer
  

• "Asleep at the Prompt" session has become a mainstay. Any suggestions?
  

• Additional sessions TBA. Please volunteer for a presentation! Email the NLUG list or a NLUG officer.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - Monthly Meeting

• OpenCV
  

• "Asleep at the Prompt" on Adding a new log to syslog

Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - Monthly Meeting

• Elijah from Joyent, presented on running Linux VM's within their Public Cloud and some of the features
  

• "Asleep at the Prompt" session on the mount and unmount commands.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - Monthly Meeting

• "Staying Up To Date" presented by Jack Coats
  

• "Asleep at the Prompt" was on Netstat

Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - Monthly Meeting

• Presenter Justin Elam

Weekend, Nov 9-11, 2012 - Phreaknic and Install Fest

• Date is November 2-5, see [phreaknic.info Phreaknic web site] for more information.
  

• Tentative NLUG Install Fest is in the 'penthouse break area' at Phreaknic. Volunteers are appreciated.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - Monthly Meeting

• Presenter David Wilson

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - Monthly Meeting

• Presenter Curt Lundgren on DHCP/DNS at Watkins

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - Monthly Meeting

• 10 Things Any Monitoring Software Should Do - Nagios by Howard White

Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - Monthly Meeting

• DNS and DHCP that is Domain Name Service and Dynamic Host Control Protocol. Tilghman is rebuilding these services in order to retire his long serving Pentium 133. Presenter Tilghman Lesher

Saturday, July 21, 2012 - Quarterly LinuxFest

• Summer Siesta ... Ok, not really. We are taking off due to lack of apparent participants this time around.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - Monthly Meeting

• Configuration Management (Chef or Puppet) - Andrew McElroy
  

• "Asleep at the Prompt" on "10 things to do with du" for this week.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - Monthly Meeting

• "Programming in Python" - Thomas Bentkus
  

• "Asleep at the Prompt" session "It's About Swap" by Tilghman Lesher

Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - Monthly Meeting

• Officer Elections - Nominees are: President: Howard White, VP: Tom Bartkus; Treasurer: Andrew McElroy; Secretary: John Elderedge
  

• A copy of the club constitution is available NLUG_Constitution_R3.pdf.
  

• Rick Ross, Senior Technical Recruiter, Vanderbilt University - “Top Ten Strategies, Decisions and Actions to Amplify your Job Search."

Rick's presented strategies to being found, top 10 ways to build a contact database and a discussion on the differences in wishing for a job vs wanting a job.

Saturday, April 28, 2012 - Quarterly LinuxFest

• Chris did a presentation on "Bare-metal VMware ESXi"
  

• Howard showed us and discussed Ubuntu 12.04 released with Unity and with Mate
  

• Howard also showed us Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) with Cinnamon and with Mate
  

• Jack found that 12.04 wouldn't install on his Dell Latitude D600 (i855PM cpu). The CPU doesn't have the 'pde' option in the hardware, and all the latest 'standard' distribution are compiled requiring this option. This made Jack grumpier than usual!
  

• A discussion came up about 'history' of NLUG. If someone has a history they can put together, please pass it on. It would be greatly appreciated.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - Monthly Meeting

• "Getting a Job with Open Source Technologies" - Panel discussion - Thanks for the idea and facilitating: Andrew - Great discussion, but it needs to continue. This is not a small or easy topic.
  

• Officer Nominations - Nominees are: President: Howard White, VP: Tom Barackus; Treasurer: Andrew McElroy; Secretary: John Eldridge
  

• "Organizational Status" discussion continues. Andrew got the green light to make nice with the State and start the preparation for 501(c)7 registration with the feds.
  

• Treasury Status: about $500
  

• Many folks signed up to provide presentations over the next year. This was a great kickoff for new efforts for the next year!

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - Monthly Meeting

• Andrew McElroy did the presentation on processes, using screen and disown - neat to learn about such things even if internals aren't your thing!
  

• Andrew also broached the subject at the meeting and later on the NLUG mailing list about the "NLUG organizational status". An interesting discussion followed, but no decisions were made. We do need to do a state filing each year if we are going to be an 'official entity' rather than a herd of geeks.
  

• Nominations for officers are in April, Elections in May. For all you power hungry controlling megalomaniacs here is your chance for your start at "World Domination". Self nomination is accepted. Main officers are President, VP, Treasurer/Secretary. I may have forgotten some (or blocked it out of my mind!)

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - No Monthly Meeting

• No meeting in February (Valentines Day) - Even geeks know better :)

Saturday, January 28, 2012 - Quarterly LinuxFest

• BackupPC - Howard White presented on BackupPC. Many topics related were discussed, but we addressed ssh and other issues related as well.
  

• 2012.01 Linux Fest was held at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film (2298 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37228)

Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - Monthly Meeting

• Howard White presented an "Asleep at the Prompt" session on the use of "dd".
  

• Chris McQuistion presented a quick session on Cloud Flare https://www.cloudflare.com/. It has the potential to enhance the security and pre-caching of your website to server more users with fewer problems in the long run.
  

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See Past Meetings tab at left for Older Entries

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Communications: Mailing List and Online Chat

Mailing List

Various discussions on Nashville Linux topics and our meeting announcements are sent via the NLUG Mailing List hosted by Google Groups. Join "nlug-talk" to receive messages from our members in your email in-box. Archives of the mailing list, messages posted prior to 2007, are available at this URL.

IRC

• Please obey the street signs that indicate the allowed areas to park and during what times you are allowed to park there.

• There may be other meetings listed on this page. Keep a watchful eye as they may change. We will try to send a notification message about any meetings or changes.

LinkedIn & Facebook

A LinkedIn group is available for NLUG. Login to LinkedIn.com and use the 'Group Search' feature for NLUG. This is a private group and must join to participate.
Do a similar search for NLUG on Facebook, you will find us there too.

Most non-meeting group communications seems to happen over email. You aren't being snubbed, if you as a question on the other media, just not seen by many.

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Wiki Updating

Anyone that has an ID and has been put into the appropriate editors user group can update the wiki. The only reason to be this closed is we have had problems with some people not playing nice together. Contact the site admin if you have questions.